Our Learning Goals
Unit 1 Being a Good Friend and Citizen: In this unit, students will learn about being a good friend, which means overcoming differences and challenges, treating others how you want to be treated, and keeping old traditions with new friends. They will also understand that being a good friend and being a good citizen have similar qualities.
Lines of Inquiry (What questions are we trying to answer?): What are the qualities of friends? Why is it important to be a good friend? How is being a good friend like being a good citizen?
Skills we are learning: Stories have characters, a setting, and major events; Character traits, honesty, caring, responsible, problem solver; Identifying key details in a text; Writing about an event to create a narrative piece.
Text(s): “Who is a Good Citizen at School?,” ReadWorks; Messy Bessey’s School Desk, Patricia and Fredrick McKissack; How to Lose All Your Friends, Nancy Carlson
Text-Focusing Question(s): What are some behaviors you should avoid when trying to make a friend?
Students will understand that there are many ways to be a good friend (e.g., share, be nice, help, use kind words, smile, etc.). If you are a good friend, people will be good friends in return . Good friends and good citizens take care of others, are kind, and are helpful.
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 to help them develop an 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 Target Skills:
I can identify the characters, setting, and major events in a story.
I can ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
I can use words I learned from texts and discussions in my work.
I can express my ideas and thoughts in a way that others can understand.
I can determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content.
Writing: Students will write a narrative piece about a time they were a good friend using sequence of events, details, pictures, and complete thoughts.
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Writing Target Skills:
I can produce and expand complete sentences.
I can print upper and lowercase letters correctly.
I can draw a picture and supply facts about a topic.
Social Studies:
Unit 1: Working Together
Students will learn to act as members of a classroom community by expanding their understanding of the concepts of shared codes of conduct, respect, fairness, justice and collective action for solving problems. Students will use read-aloud texts, images, artifacts and materials that represent diverse student experiences and support the development of early literacy skills.
Science:
Unit 1: Dealing with Weather
Students will use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.
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Target Skills:
Module 1: Counting and Cardinality-D and Three-D
We will:
Count and Write numbers from 0-10.
Represent a group of objects with written numeral 0-10.
Say one number name with each objects when counting up to 10 objects.
Use the last number of a count to tell hom many regardless of arrangement or order counted.
Say how many with recounting when objects are arranged.
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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