Kurt Helfrich


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E-Mail: Kurt.Helfrich@Adams12.org
Job Description: Teacher

Tues. - Skate City party

Wed. bring a bag lunch.  Party and ceremony at park. 

 

 

 

• READING

• Selects and reads a variety of text
• • Reads a variety of genre including fiction, non-fiction and poetry
• • Uses reference materials
• • Recognizes format variation in text
• Applies strategies and skills
• • Takes notes to retain information
• • Consults reference sources (atlas, periodicals, etc.)
• • Identifies author’s purpose and point of view
• • Recognizes dialect
• • Rereads and reads ahead
• • Uses new vocabulary in responses
• Reads independently
• • Keeps record of reading
• • Summarizes what has been read independently
• • Identifies strengths and needs as a reader
• Demonstrates comprehension in oral and written reading response
• • Summarizes reading
• • Identifies and explains point of view
• • Draws logical conclusions from text
• • Compares and contrasts text
• • Answers questions from charts, maps and tables

WRITING

• Uses writing process effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences
• • Uses wide range of information to plan writing
• • Writes well developed paragraphs
• • Revises and edits drafts
• • Produces personal experience narrative, report, compare-contrast
• paper, a story
• Uses information from a variety of sources
• • Conducts an interview as a source of information
• • Locates and uses Internet information
• • Prepares bibliographySpelling
• • Makes few errors in high frequency words
• • Uses dictionary/spell checker
• • Uses variety of spelling strategies (phonics, endings, syllable
• word meanings)
• Writes neatly
• • Uses correct letter formation and consistent spacing and size
• • Writes legibly
• Speaks effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences
• • Participates in small group presentation
• • Presents an informative speech
• • Asks and answers relevant questions
• Listens actively
• • Listens critically to take notes
• • Listens critically to evaluate literature

MATH

• Number Sense
• • Read, write and order positive numbers through millions including
• commonly-used fractions and terminating decimals through thousandths
• • Identify factors, multiples, prime and composite numbers
• • Demonstrate divisibility rules for 2, 5 and 10
• Algebraic Concepts
• • Use order of operations rules for calculating problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication
• and division
• • Write number sentences to represent math problem situations
• • Use a T-chart to graph linear points in the first quadrant and
• describe the slope
• Statistics and Probability
• • Determine and distinguish between mean, median, mode and
• range
• • Demonstrate that the sum of the probabilities equals one (e.g., 1/2
• yellow, 1/4 red and 1/4 blue =1)
• • Assign a number between 0 and 1, inclusive, to the probability of an
• event (e.g., 1/6, 3/12)
• Geometry
• • Demonstrate geometric constructions of copying a segment and an
• angle
• • Use vocabulary and show examples of: base, height, diagonals,
• vertices and acute, obtuse and right angles
• • Set up a coordinate graph, mark, and read coordinate pairs in the
• first quadrant
• Measurement• Estimate, measure and draw angles using a protractor
• • Develop and use formulas for perimeter and area of rectangles, squares, and triangles
• • Compare and convert units of measure for linear, weight and capacity (e.g., inches to feet, ounces
• to pounds, cups to pints)
• Computation
• • Use concrete materials to determine commonly used percentages
• (e.g., 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%)
• • Demonstrate equivalencies and simplification of proper fractions
• • Demonstrate with proficiency addition and subtraction of decimals
• through hundredths

SCIENCE

• Scientific Investigation
• • Asks testable questions
• • Generates hypotheses
• • Collects data
• • Displays and discusses result

• Physical Science
• • Describes electricity as a form of energy, makes a simple circuit, compares permanent magnets to
• electromagnets

• Life Science
• • Compares, contrasts, and quantifies common foods by their nutrient content and describes how
• food provides the body with energy

• Earth and Space Science
• • Uses a food chain or web to describe interactions between animals, plants, and the energy from
• the Sun

• Technology and Careers
• • Identifies careers related to each of the three investigations
• • Identifies natural resources
• • Identifies technologies used in daily life

• Science as a particular way of knowing
• • Predicts future events based upon observable patterns
• • Compares a model with what it represents (for example, a globe to the Earth)
• • Can explain why scientists repeat experiments with the same conditions

SOCIAL STUDIES

• History• Creates an historical summary and timeline that chronologically
• organizes people and events using years, decades and centuries
• Geography• • Identifies the colonial regions of the United States, and identifies
• the settlers, their reasons for immigration/migration, and the effect on the region
Develops a deep understanding of the American Revolution
• Civics
• • Investigates how the Constitution is a living document
• Economics
• • Explains how economic factors influenced exploration of North
• America and the development of pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial United States
• Culture is integrated into all standards