Kindergarten February Curriculum Map

Subject Content Objectives

Days of the week Yesterday, today, tomorrow Months and Seasons Calendar more/less Skip counting (2s, 5s and 10s) Counting to 31 Understanding addition and subtraction

Activities
- complete daily worksheets for each lesson - Complete stories about joining numbers (ex. 2 students are in library, 3 students join them. How many are their now?) -Introduce the plus sign and how to use it - Introduce the = sign and talk about finding the sum - Make addition sentences - Make addition problems using pennies

Assessment
-Daily worksheets - Observation - Diagnostics - calendar time - chapter test

Resources
-Scott Foresman math books - objects for counting - pennies - unifix cubes

Standards
K.CC.2- Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence K.CC.4Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality K.OA.4- For any number from 1-9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number. K.OA.1- Represent addition problems with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds, acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions and equations. K.O.A.2- Solve addition word problems, add within 10 by using objects or drawings to represent the

Math

Scott Foresman Volume 3 L.9.8-L.9.9 Volume 4 L. 10.1- L.10.8

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Language Arts

Unit 8 Lesson 1-15 Unit 9 Lesson 1-5

-punctuation (. ! ?) -Parts of a book (title, author, illustrator) - How to read a book (left to right) -Phoneme blending and segmenting -high frequency words( where, here, that, what, late, they, from, come, whale) - Long vowel sounds (a, e, I, o, u) - Dr. Seuss unit study - pronouns - Talk about plural nouns and how to use them orally and written

- Ask students who the Author and Illustrator are for each book and what they do - Read big books with a pointer to show left to right - Wear High Frequency word of the day and have students identify word whenever they ask a question. - Read Decodables as a class - listen to a story and predict what will come next - Read letter sound poem and have kids say the sound - Read community helper stories - Read Dr. Seuss stories - create writing around their favorite Dr. Seuss story - Use students to show how pronouns are used

- Meet one-onone -Observations - Benchmark 3 - Unit 8 and 9 assessments - Story map - Witings

-Decodables - Alphabet big book -Unit 8 and 9 big book - worksheets - Unit 8 and 9 assessments - construction paper - Community Helper Books and Dr. Seuss books

L.1.b- use frequently occurring nouns and verbs L.2.b- Recognize and name end punctuation. R.f.3.c- Read common highfrequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to , you, she, my , is, are, do, does.) RI.1- With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. RI.2- With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. RI.10- Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and

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understanding. RL.1- With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. RL.2- With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details. RL.3- With prompting and support, identify characters, settings and major events in a story. RL.9- With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories. RL.6- with prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.

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L.2.d- spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationship L.2.a- capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I RI.5- Identify the front cover, back cover and title page of a book RL.2- With prompting and support retell familiar stories, including key details RF.3.aDemonstrate basic knowledge of oneto-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant RF.3.c- Read common highfrequency words by sight

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RF.2.b- count, pronounce, blend and segment syllables in spoken words RF.2.c- Blend and segment onsets and rimes of singlesyllable spoken words RF.4- Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding. L.2.d- Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships. RI. 7- With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear. RI.10- actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and meaning

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L.1.c- Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/

How to Unit

Penmanship

Introduction to the writing process

- Have students use the writing process to complete their how to instructions ( brainstorm, write, revise/edit, final copy) -Have students help edit/revise each others work

- Writing Process pieces - observation -one-on-one

-Writing paper - Class How-to example

W.3- Use a combination of drawing, dictating and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred and provided a reaction to what happened. RF.1.c- Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. W.5- With guidance and support from adults respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed. K.C.1.1- Explain similarities in self and others. K.H.1.1- Explain

Social Studies

Community Helpers Presidents day

-Firefighters -Teachers -Nurse -Doctor

- Read about each community Helper - Compare community helpers and what they each

- observation - one-on-one - discussion - Writings - Abe and

- writing paper -construction paper -books on each community helper

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-Mail Carrier -Police Officer -Chef/Baker -Abraham Lincoln -George Washington do for the community - Watch a video on brain pop jr. about community helpers - watch a video and George Washington and Abraham Lincoln on Brain Pop jr. - Create a chart stating that George Washington was and is - discuss dental health George Portraits - books on Abraham Lincoln and George Washington how people change over time (self and others) K.C & G.1.2Explain why citizens obey rules in the classroom, school, home and neighborhood.

Science

-Dental Health - Ground Hog Day - Living and nonliving

-Dental Health - Ground Hog Day - Living and nonliving things

- Have dentist come in to do a dental presentation - Teach students how to brush teeth correctly - complete a eggsperiment to show the importance of brushing with tooth paste - Read stories about trees, plants and flowers and why they are living things - Discuss what is living and what is

-discussion -one-on-one -observation - science journal - eggsperiment sheet - groundhog drawing sheet

- groundhog worksheet - construction paper - Imagine It! Big book (Ready, Set, Grow) - Groundhog day books - Dental Health books

K.E.1.1- Infer that change is something that happens to many things in the environment based on observations made using one or more of their senses. K.L.1.2- Compare characteristics of living and nonliving things in terms of their: -structure -growth -changes -movement -basic needs K.E.1.3- Compare weather patterns that occur from

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not - Read a story on groundhog day -Discuss what it means if he sees his shadow or doesnt see his shadow -take a class vote whether he will see his shadow or not - Talk about results and what they mean - Complete a drawing for spring and winter with the ground hog (circle which will come next)
-National anthem - New Mexico -New York -North Carolina - North Dakota - Ohio -Oklahoma -Draw, color and decorate state symbols - talk about state flower, bird and capital -Complete state page for US state -observation - worksheets -discussion -computer (for 50 states song) - The State Train book season to season.

United States

50 States

K.G.1.2- Use globes and maps to locate land and water features