Kindergarten

Teachers:  Bryan, Miranda

Possible Units of Study

 

Reading
Identifying all upper and lower case letters and their sounds
Understanding left-to-right and top-to-bottom orientation when reading books
Using context clues(pictures) to read a story
Pointing to words to follow text
Begins to identify sight words (I, me, and, the, see, was)
Recognizing words that rhyme
Retells a story using details
Beginning to decode simple c-v-c words (consonant-vowel-consonant)


Writing
Using upper and lower case letters in writing
One-word captions (beginning)
Using inventive spelling when sounding out words
Using resources such as alphabet charts and word lists to support writing
Expanding on ideas to create a simple story over a few pages
Representational drawings with labels
Using a string of words to create simple sentences
Has a specific story topic
Creating class Big Books (Shared Writing) using repetition and rhyme

 

Social Studies

K- Me Study/Family Study

Concepts/Big Ideas
• How I am special? What makes me unique?
• What makes a family a family?
• Learning to develop and use interview questions
• How do we conduct research?
• Research notebooks: develop note taking skills, observational drawings, photos, artifacts)
• Developing mapping skills

 

Activities/Meetings

• Families conduct home visits for the class
• Use of blocks and dramatic play to recreate experiences from the trips
• Charting/graphing our visits using various kinds of maps
• Venn diagram comparisons of families
• Publish books about the home visits
• Literature related to family topics (i.e. siblings, divorce, stepparents, mixed race, etc.)
• Literature study: Ezra Jack Keats

 

 

Math Investigations in Number, Data and Space
Kindergarten  - Sequence of  Math Units
Who is in School Today
Routines and Materials

Counting and Comparing
Measurement and the Number System

What Comes Next
Patterns and Functions

Measuring and Counting
Measurement and the Number System-2

Make a Shape, Build a Block
2-D and 3-D Geometry

How Many Do You Have?
 Addition, Subtraction and the Number System

Sorting and Surveys
Data Analysis