Our Learning Goals
Unit Theme: Unit 2: We are now transitioning to Unit Two. In this unit, students will learn about the important roles that community workers play and how teamwork helps communities function successfully. Students will also explore how where people live influences where they work, play, and contribute within a community. Through engaging discussions and hands-on activities, students will begin to understand how every community member helps make their neighborhood a better place.
Lines of Inquiry (What questions are we trying to answer?): What are the characteristics of a community? • What are the different roles that people play in a community? • What functions do places in the community serve?
Text(s): Police Officer On The Go! - Alyse Sweeney; Garbage Collectors - Tami Deedrick
Text-Focusing Question (s): Why is it important to have community workers? How does the author use the text and illustrations to teach us how police officers help the community? How are garbage collectors helpful in the community?
Phonemic Awareness:
Target skills:
Phonemic Awareness is a foundational skill for learning to read and write. Each day, students will participate in a short lesson that will help them develop awareness of the sounds of our language.
Students will learn to:
●isolate sounds in words
●blend sounds to make words
●segment words into sounds
●manipulate sounds in spoken words
Reading/Writing
Target Skills:
With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Writing: Students will write a narrative piece about a time they were a good friend.
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Target Activity and Skills:
Students will write a list-and-label book naming their community worker, describing their role, and listing the tools they use.
Social Studies:
Students will learn how to be active members of their classroom community. They will gain a better understanding of shared rules, respect, fairness, justice, and the importance of working together to solve problems. Students will read texts aloud, examine images, and explore materials that illustrate different student experiences. These activities will help develop their early literacy skills.
Science:
Students will make observations to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface and use tools and materials to design and build a structure that reduces the warming effect of sunlight on a given area.
Math:
Target Skills:
Module 2: Two- and Three-Dimensional Shapes To-D and Three-D
We will:
Count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects.
Decompose Numbers - Students will begin to use number sentences, such as "5 is 2 and 3." These early experiences with problem-solving set the stage for work with addition and subtraction concepts.
Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to.
Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size.
Analyze and compare two- and three-dimensional shapes, in different sizes and orientations, using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, parts (e.g., number of sides and vertices/"corners"), and other attributes (e.g., having sides of equal length).
Order and match numeral and dot cards
from 1 to 10. State
1 more
than a given number.
(Lesson 29)
Objective 2: Make
math stairs
from 1 to 10
in cooperative groups.
(Lesson 30)
Objective 3:
Arrange, analyze, and draw
1 more
up to 10
in configurations other than towers.
(Lesson 31)
Objective 4:
Arrange, analyze, and draw sequences of quantities of
1 more,
beginning with numbers
other than 1.
(Lesson 32)
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from 1 to 10. State
1 more
than a given number.
(Lesson 29)
Objective 2: Make
math stairs
from 1 to 10
in cooperative groups.
(Lesson 30)
Objective 3:
Arrange, analyze, and draw
1 more
up to 10
in configurations other than towers.
(Lesson 31)
Objective 4:
Arrange, analyze, and draw sequences of quantities of
1 more,
beginning with numbers
other than 1.
(Lesson 32)
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