Peacock Primary School

Peacock Primary School

Kindergarten French Immersion Curriculum Letter to Parents

Learning is done through activities related to meaningful themes which allow the students to make connections across the curriculum.

Following is an outline of the topics and learning goals your child will cover in their Kindergarten year.

Language Arts:

Appreciation of the French Language and Cultural Diversity:

·  Demonstrate an increasing willingness to listen to and to speak French at all times.

·  Demonstrate constant effort in repeating after the teacher, memorizing vocabulary.

·  Demonstrate a positive attitude toward exploring stories, songs, rhymes, poems, and special events of francophone and other origins.

·  Participate readily in class activities.

·  Begin to discuss the advantages of being able to speak more than one language.

·  Be courteous to others and use respectful language in all situations.

·  Gradually increase the number of actively used French phrases.

Listening and Speaking:

·  Begin to ask simple questions in French.

·  Listen for enjoyment to children’s literature, such as, stories, nursery rhymes, and poetry.

·  Listen to experiences and feelings shared by others.

·  Follow simple multi-step instructions.

·  Listen attentively for periods of time.

·  Tell a simple story in sequence.

·  Speak in turn and stay on topic.

·  Ask and respond to questions.

·  Use learned expressions and high frequency vocabulary to convey a message.

·  Engage in dialogue, role play, and dramatization.

·  Demonstrate effective presentation skills.

·  Use classroom and personal picture dictionaries.

Reading and Viewing:

·  Demonstrate good listening and participation skills.

·  Demonstrate an awareness of upper case and lower case letters and the sounds they make.

·  Enjoy being read to.

·  Begin to focus on print to get meaning.

·  To understand that the text and the pictures carry the story.

·  To share ideas about stories.

·  Begin to read and follow simple/multi-step directions.

·  Begin to recognize commonly used French syllables/words in a sentence.

·  Begin to ask questions about texts.

·  Begin to make inferences.

·  Identify similarities and differences between characters, settings, and events.

·  Analyze to make critical judgment of a text.

·  Begin to know that one-to-one matching is necessary for reading.

·  Demonstrate directionality, left-right, front-back, top-bottom, beginning-to end.

·  Become aware of punctuation used in print.

·  Describe some personal reading and viewing strategies.

Writing and Other Ways of Representing:

·  Practice alphabet/ letter formation in upper and lower case letters.

·  Communicate through drawings and conventional letters.

·  Show directionality and spaces between words.

·  Demonstrate awareness that print holds meaning.

·  Begin to join the sounds to create syllables/short words.

·  Demonstrate awareness of letter sounds.

·  Begin to use writing to express personal experiences, ideas, and to record thoughts, feelings, and opinions.

·  Use basic conventions.

·  Use an increasing number of words spelled conventionally.

·  With assistance, experiment with technology in writing and other forms of representing.

·  Begin to edit written work (i.e. writing on the line, self-correct letter formation, spacing, and punctuation.

Math: Math Makes Sense

·  Identify, describe, extend and create patterns

·  One-to-one matching of number and objects.

·  Use “more than”, “less than”, “same as”, “longer, shorter” “wider-thicker” to make comparisons and sort objects.

·  Create and count sets to 10.

·  Recognize and make numerals 1-10.

·  Counting forward and backward to 10.

·  Demonstrate addition and subtraction by combining and removing objects.

·  Create, read and interpret a pictograph.

·  Describe, sort, and build 3D objects and 2D shapes.

Science: My World

To develop the important skills of scientific inquiry through exploration of their personal encounters with the natural world.

·  Living Things: Compare living and nonliving things.

·  Things We Use: Awareness of the function and characteristic of common objects.

·  Look Everywhere: To explore their surroundings and make observations.

Social Studies: Discovery Links

To build on children’s natural curiosity as they make discoveries about the world around them.

·  Identity: demonstrate an understanding of themselves as unique and special.

·  Roots: demonstrate an understanding that families have historical roots.

·  Place: To describe some of the natural and constructed features of their community.

Religion:

Through the use of children’s literature, the following topics will be discussed.

·  To grow in awareness of themselves and to develop positive attitudes.

·  To grow in awareness of others and to develop relationships.

·  To develop their interest in and their ability to reflect upon the world around them.

·  To broaden their understanding of cultural traditions, customs and practices represented in their class and community.

·  To explore various celebrations around the world.

Health:

Through a variety of activities and discussions, children will be given the opportunity to create an understanding:

·  What makes a body healthy

·  What makes a body safe

·  That everyone is special

·  That everyone grows

·  That the body has many parts with functions

Physical Education: Mr. Glenn Forsey

Children will take part in different activities to develop cooperation and an awareness of personal space and physical skills (i.e.: throwing, catching, kicking, etc).

·  Walking, running, jumping, balance, etc.

·  Concepts such as, over-under, left-right.

·  A variety of low organized games to promote skill development.

Music: Mrs. Heather Lawrence

Children will participate in:

·  Singing a wide variety of children’s songs, action songs, and seasonal songs.

·  Introduce and use rhythm instruments.

·  Develop awareness of the musical elements of beat- fast-slow, high-low, loud-soft.

Yours sincerely,

Mme Crivaia

Kindergarten French Immersion Teacher