Curriculum
English Language Arts: Unit 5: Wonders of Nature, Plants, Bugs, and Frogs
Essential Question:
How does nature inspire us as readers, writers, and artists?
Overview:
Using both informational and fiction texts, students will focus on the growth and changes that occur in nature. They will recognize interactions in nature and note the role that people can play in taking care of nature as an introduction to cause and effect.
Student Objectives:
- Recognize cause and effect relationships as they occur in the natural world.
- Recognize the basic similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic.
- Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
- Write, draw, or dictate a narrative (describe something that happened in nature).
- Use common affixes as clues to the meaning of an unknown word.
Fundations: Unit 4
- 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)
- Phoneme Segmentation
- Concept of consonant digraph, keywords, and sounds : Wh, ch, sh
- Decoding three sounds with digraphs
- Spelling three sound words with digraph
- Spelling of ck at the end of 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 7: We Encounter Jesus through the Mass and Sacraments
Essential Question:
What are sacraments? How do we encounter Jesus?
Overview:
In this unit the children will understand and participate in the sacraments of the Church as signs of God’s grace, given by Jesus to the Church.
Standards:
K.02.01 Show understanding that we receive special signs that God loves and cares for us.
K.02.03 State that Baptism incorporates us into the Church.
K.02.04 Identify the bread and wine at Mass as a special sign of God’s Son Jesus’s presence among us.
K.02.05 Identify the tabernacle as a place where the Blessed Sacrament is kept in the form of bread.
K.02.06 State that during the Mass the parish family receives Jesus in Holy Communion.
K.02.07 Describe sacrament as an effective sign of God’s love for us.
K.02.08 Recognize how religious signs and symbols tell us about God.
K.02.09 Show basic understanding that when we pray together we create ritual to help us do this.
K.02.10 Show basic understanding that when we go to Church we are in God’s presence and we pray.
K.02.12 Identify the tabernacle as a special place of reverence for Jesus.
K.02.13 Recognize that the priest leads us in prayer.
K.02.14 Identify the Mass as a very special prayer of people who gather in Church on Sunday.
K.02.19 Give the sign of peace to classmates during the Mass.
Student Objectives:
- Identify the sacraments as special signs of God’s love and grace.
- Recognize the tabernacle, bread, and wine at Mass.
- Identify religious symbols and signs that tell about God.
- Explain how the Church prays together led by the priest.
Science: Unit 4: The Sun’s Heat (Energy)
Essential Question:
How does the sun warm materials on earth’s surface?
Overview:
Students will acknowledge the sun as a source of energy for the earth. Students will explore how objects placed in the sun are affected in regards to temperature. They will brainstorm things that help protect us from the sun and eventually design a prototype to reduce the effects of sunlight on an area.
Focus Standards:
K-PS3-1. Make observations to determine that sunlight warms materials on Earth’s
Surface.
Clarification Statements: Examples of materials on Earth’s surface could include sand,soil, rocks, and water.
Measures of temperature should be limited to relative measures such as warmer/cooler.
K-PS3-2. Use tools and materials to design and build a prototype of a structure that will reduce the warming effect of sunlight on an area.
Student Objectives:
- Identify the sun as a source of heat and energy
- Make observations about objects on earth’s surface that are warmed as a result of the sun
- Design and build a structure that will reduce the effects of sunlight on an area
Social Studies: Unit 5: Chronologically Speaking
Essential Question:
Why is it important to correctly use words and phrases related to chronology and time?
Overview:
Students will learn and understand why it is important to correctly use words and phrases related to chronology and time. Students will use these words to show how events relate to one another in time.
Focus Standards:
PreK-K 2. Use correctly words and phrases related to chronology and time (now, long ago, before, after, morning, afternoon, night, today, tomorrow, yesterday, last or next week, month, year; and present, past, and future tense of verbs.)
Student Objectives:
- Students will be able correctly use words and phrases when relating it to chronology and time.
- Students will be able to use these words to show how events relate to one another in time.