By the end of the year, you can expect your child to

• Work cooperatively and productively with other children in small groups to complete projects
• Grow in the spirit of God's love in their understanding of their Faith
• Understand how choices affect consequences
• Become more organized and logical in her thinking processes
• Build stronger friendships
• Like immediate rewards for behavior
• Be able to write neatly in cursive because the small muscles of the hand have developed
• Read longer stories and chapter books with expression and comprehension of the theme
• Use prefixes, suffixes, and root words and other strategies to identify unfamiliar words
• Multiply and divide single- and multi-digit numbers
• Know the products of all one-digit numbers by memory
• Tell time to the nearest quarter- and half-hour and to five minutes and one minute, using AM and PM
• Be able to conduct week(s)-long interviews and research projects and write on a topic
• Use linking words such as because, therefore, since, for example, also, another, and, more, and but to show sequence, contrast, and causation