Denton ISD Pre-K Pacing Guide

3rd Six Weeks
Nov. 5- Dec. 21, 2012
(Six full weeks)
/ Theme(s):
  • Nutrition
  • Fall/Winter Weather
  • Fall/Winter Culture
/ District Assessments
1st year:
  • Trace their name from a model
  • Counts one-to-one correspondence up to 4
2nd year:
  • Recognizes letter sounds
  • Intentionally uses scribbles/writing to convey meaning
  • Separates a normally spoken four-word sentence into individual words
  • Identifies: circle, triangle, rectangle, square, rhombus

Goals / Essential Questions / Activities
Language Communication
A. Listening
B. Speaking
C. Speech Production
D. Vocabulary
E. Sentence & Structure
Reading
A. Motivation to Read
B. Phonological Awareness
C. Alphabet Knowledge
D. Comprehension
Writing
A. Motivation to Write
B. Independently Conveys Meaning
C. Forms Letters
D. Concepts about Print /
  • Follows 2-step verbal directions
  • Participates in conversations (taking turns)
  • Retells events or acts out stories about what he/she did
  • Responds to simple instructions (ELL)
  • Uses past tenses and pronouns correctly
  • Uses complex sentences
  • Concepts of print
  • Makes compound words
  • Claps syllables
  • Identifies rhyming words
  • Identifies letters
  • Retells and acts out a story.
  • Predicts what will happen next in a story
  • Begins to make letter like forms
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  • How does listening help me communicate?
  • Why is the way you say something important?
  • How can I communicate my ideas/thoughts so others will understand my thinking?
  • What do good readers do?
  • How do letters help us?
  • What makes up a word?
  • How will knowing letters and sounds help me to read?
  • How can I play with sounds?
  • How do syllables help us read words?
  • What do good writers do?
/
  • Picture Walks
  • Make predictions
  • Acting out a story, The Gingerbread Man
  • Share read and write a story
  • Characterization
  • Sequence a story read aloud
  • Count the words in the sentence orally before writing and have students illustrate it in centers.
  • Have the students count the words in the sentence as they read the words.
  • Have students come up to read (point at) the class story from the sentence strips.
  • In the “Read around the room” center give the students some big cutouts of letters that are difficult for the students to remember or ones you are specifically working on. Have the students locate those letters in the classroom.
  • Place paper and pencil in the home center for the students to create a Thanksgiving or grocery shopping list or a list for Santa
  • Trace over pencil written name with finger paint, shaving cream, or other gooey substance or trace with a popsicle stick
  • Play “I Spy” with sounds
  • Play “I have….who has”

Math
A. Counting
B. Adding To/Taking Away
C. Geometry
D. Measurement
E. Classification & Patterns /
  • Demonstrates sequence of numbers
  • Uses ordinal numbers to count and applies it in everyday situations
  • Subatizes 1-5
  • Recognizes and distinguishes numerals from letters
  • Adds, subtracts, and divides objects to solve problems
  • Identifies solids and puts them together to make objects
  • Positional words
  • Slides shapes
  • Compares space, capacity, and weight
  • Creates a floor graph with concrete objects
  • Identifies repeating patterns in nature
/
  • How do we use numbers?
  • What is pattern?
  • How can patterns be used to make predictions?
  • Why do we measure?
/
  • Create a counting station with different manipulatives and numerals
  • Make objects out of Styrofoam or use other art materials to create new shapes
  • Make a shape book with magazine clippings of different shapes (Monster Shape Book).
  • Make a graph of your favorite food from each food group.

Science
A. Physical
B. Life
C. Earth and Space
D. Personal Safety & Health /
  • Temperature
  • Seasons affect daily life
  • How animals and humans depend on plants
  • Identify what is healthy and not healthy
  • Identify what to do to stay healthy
/
  • What does it mean to be healthy?
  • How does weather affect us?
/
  • SALSA (Life in a Tree/Bears)
  • Unit of the apple tree: make a graph of favorite apples, different seasons of the apple tree
  • Make a graph of healthy food and non-healthy foods from magazines

Social Studies
A. People, Past and Present
B. Economic
C. Geography
D. Citizenship /
  • Respects and finds similarities in other cultures
  • Participates in pretend play of caring for a family
  • Show and tell items of family heritage
  • Family customs and traditions
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  • What makes culture a part of our life and how we live it?
  • How do our choices affect our life and others?
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  • Make a dish from a family tradition
  • Bring an item from home that represents something you do as a family and explain.
  • Winter Customs Around our Classroom