Grade Level:Kindergarten
Unit Title: Change / Timeframe Needed for Completion:
August, September, October
Grading Period:First Nine Weeks
Big Idea/Themes:Me, Family, Change, Rules, Movement, Citizenship, Fall, Apples/Pumpkins, Fire Safety, Nursery Rhymes, Alphabet, Sounds,
Book and Print Awareness, Numbers, Shapes, Sorting, Opposites
Understandings:Change occurs over time and has an impact on individuals. Objects and substances have properties and may be sorted based on those properties.
Essential Questions: Social Studies /Science
- What is change?
- Why do citizens obey rules?
- How does weather change?
- What is a season?
- What are ways objects can be sorted?
- What are ways objects and organisms can move?
- How can you describe an object?
- What is an author?
- What is an illustrator?
- What are the parts of the book?
- What are 3 ways to read a book?
- What are ways you have changed?
- What is a numeral?
- What are different ways to sort and classify?
- How tall are you now?
- How much will you grow this year?
Social Studies / Science
K.H.1 Explain how people change over time (self and others).
K.H.1 Explain how season change over time.
K.H.1.3 Explain the impact of how life events bring change.
K.C&G.1 Exemplify positive relationships through fair play friendship.
K.C&G.1 Explain why citizens obey rules in the classroom, school, home and neighborhood.
K.C.1.1 Explain similarities in self and others.
K.C.1.2 Explain the elements of culture: how people speak, how people dress, food they eat. / K.P.1.2 Give examples of different ways objects and organisms move (to include falling to the ground when dropped): straight, zigzag, round and round, back and forth, fast and slow
K.P.2.1 Classify objects by observable physical properties including size, color, shape, texture, weight and flexibility.
K.E.1.2 Summarize daily weather conditions noting changes that occur from day to day and throughout the year.
K.E.1.3 Compare weather patterns that occur from season to season.
Language Arts
Reading
Foundational Skills:
Print Concepts
RF.K.1. Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
a. Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.
b. Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.
c. Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.
d. Recognize and name all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet. (Currituck Recommendation-13 upper/lower)
Phonological Awareness
RF.K.2. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). (Currituck Recommendation- 13 sounds)
b. Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words.
Phonics and Word Recognition
RF.K.3.Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
a. Demonstrate basic knowledge of letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or most frequent sound for each consonant.
c. Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). (Currituck Recommendations-1st- 5-10 words. 2nd- 10-20 words. 3rd- 20-30 words. 30-40 words.)
Informational Text:
Craft and Structure
RI.K.4. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
RI.K.5. Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
RI.K.6. Name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
Literature:
Craft and Structure
RL.K.4. Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
RL.K.7. 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). / Writing
Text Types and Purposes
W.K.1. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is...). / Speaking and Listening
Comprehension and Collaboration
SL.K.3. Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
SL.K.4. Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
SL.K.5.Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
SL.K.6. Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly. / Language
Conventions of Standard English
L.K.1.Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
a. Print many upper- and lowercase letters.
b. Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs.
c. Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes).
e. Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with).
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
L.K.5. With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
a. Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.
b. Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms).
c. Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
Mathematics
Counting and Cardinality
Know number names and the count sequence.
K.CC 1. Count to 100 by ones and by tens. (count to 25 by ones)
K.CC 2. Count forward beginning from a given number within the know sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).
K.CC 3. Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects). (Write and count 0-10)
K.CC 4. Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect
counting to cardinality.
a. When counting objects, say the number names in the standardorder, pairing each object with one and only one number nameand each number name with one and only one object. / Operations and Algebraic Thinking / Number and Operations and Base Ten / Measurement and Data
Classify objects and count the number of objects in each category.
K.MD 3. Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count. / Geometry
Identify and describe shapes (squares, circles, triangles, rectangles,hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres).
K.G 1. 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.
K.G 2. Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size. (Identify flat shapes).
Essential Skills/Vocabulary:
- Season
- Change
- Classify
- Sort
- Above
- Below
- Beneath
- Syllable
- Opinion
- Title
- Author
- Illustrator
- Beside
- In front of
- Text
- Size
- Flat
- Solid
- Numeral
- Behind
- Next to
- Observation
- Center activities
- Checklists
- Projects
Revised 6-11-13 1st Nine Weeks