Curriculum
English Language Arts: Unit 4: Our Great Big World
Essential Question:
Why is it important for writers to describe setting carefully?
Overview:
Students will listen to the chapter book Mr. Popper’s Penguins and learn about travel and dreams. Students will be introduced to traditions from each of the seven continents. Students will then combine this knowledge by listening to non-fiction books about each continents. They will see how fictional settings can reflect real places. finally, students will gather information about their favorite continent and complete a persuasive writing piece on why they would like to visit that place.
Learning about and viewing various paintings by master painters will reinforce the concept of comparing and contrasting settings.
Student Objectives
- Describe the connection between the settings of fictional works and informational books about the same place
- Learn about the similarities and differences between fictional and informational texts on the same topic
- Compare and contrast characters adventures that are set in different continents
- Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to offer an opinion (about a continent to visit) include details that explain and support the opinion
- Demonstrate understanding of common verbs, and adjectives by relating them to their opposites
Fundations: Unit 3
- Phonemic Awareness skills: Blending, segmenting, and manipulation of spelling.
- Blending and reading three-sound short vowel words
- Story prediction
- Alphabetical order
- Upper Case letter formation
- Blending sounds in nonsense CVC words
- Segmenting and spelling three-sound short vowel sounds
- Distinguish long and short vowel words
- Narrative story-form: character, setting, main events
- Fluency and phasing with echo and choral reading
- Beginning composition Skills
- High frequency words (trick words)
Writing: John Collins Writing Program - Each month we will work on two Focus Correction Areas for our writing.
-This month's Focus Correction Areas:
1. Picture Bigger than your hand.
2. Using 4 or more realistic colors.
Math: Unit 5: Fact Fluency and Place Value
Essential Question:
Why is it important to know the facts?
Overview
After spending time in previous units exploring the concepts of addition and subtraction and learning strategies for each students will move on to working on fact fluency in this unit. Students will be given multiple opportunities for practice and encouraged to learn their facts in a systematic manner. Students will also explore the concept of place value by working with teen numbers and representing them through base ten blocks and written equations.
Standards:
K.OA.5. Fluently Add and Subtract within five
K.NBT.1. Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each composition or decomposition by a drawing or equation (such as 18 = 10 + 8); understand that these numbers are composed of ten ones and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.
Student Objectives
- Fluently add and subtract within five
- Show numbers 11-19 as a group of tens and ones
- Record numbers 11-19 as addition sentences
Religion: Unit 4 Lent, Easter, Ash Wednesday
Essential Question:
What are Lent and Easter? Why are they important to us as Catholics?
Overview:
In this unit the children will learn about the Holiest time of the Catholic calendar, the Easter Season. Students will explore the significance of each part of the holidays as well as discover how they can participate in these events and use them as an opportunity to deepen their faith.
Standards:
K.02.15 Recognize Easter as a special celebration of the life of Jesus.
K.02.16 Identify Good Friday as the day we remember the death of Jesus.
K.02.17 Show basic recognition of Lent as a special time of preparation for Easter.
K.04.12 Show basic understanding that Jesus died loving even those who killed him.
K.04.13 Show basic understanding that God raised Jesus from death.
Student Objectives:.
- Identify Lent, Easter, and the Three Days as part of the Church year.
- Identify ways we can celebrate Lent and Easter.
- Identify Lent as a season of preparation.
- Identify Easter as a time of jubilation and new life.
- Name the sacrifice that Jesus made for us
Science: Unit 3: Matter and Its Interactions
Essential Question:
What are the various states of matter and how do materials change from one state to another depending on the temperature?
Overview:
Students will identify the three states of matter. Students will understand that materials can change states based on the temperature. Students will explore materials in different states and record qualitative observations.
Focus Standards:
K-PS1-1. Investigate and communicate the idea that different kinds of materials can be solid or liquid depending on temperature
Clarification statement: materials chosen must exhibit solid and liquid state in reasonable temperature range for kindergarten students (0-80 degrees F) such as water, crayons, or glue sticks
Only a qualitative description of temperature, such as hot, warm, and cool is expected.
Student Objectives:
- Investigate and communicate the idea that different kinds of material can be solid or liquid.
- Understand matter can change states. Solids can become liquids. Liquids can become gases.
- Make qualitative observations regarding temperature
Social Studies: Unit 4: Our Great Big World
Essential Question:
Why is it important to learn about my world? How does my world change?
Overview:
Students will learn about their world. Students will learn and explore about maps and globes. Students will be able to identify the difference between them. Students will be able to discover their world through hands on experiences by designing their own maps of their neighborhood.
Focus Standards:
PreK-K.CS. 5. Tell or show what a map is and what a globe is.
PreK-K.4. Describe the location and features of places in the immediate neighborhood of the student’s home or school.
Student Objectives
- Students will be able to identify places on the map and globe.
- Students will be able to specifically describe location and feature in their immediate neighborhood of their home or school.