2012/13 Kindergarten Curriculum

Subject Readers Workshop Septembe October r Teaching RW (2nd Week) My turn Your Turn Everyones turn We are Readers (3rd Week) - Read the pictures - Take care of books - Read front to back - Read left to right - Talk about books (Retell, Beginning, Middle, End, Key details, Characters, Making connections) November December January February March April May June Readers have super powers (Use all they know to read) - Point to words we read - Use patterns (Notice when patterns change) - Match the words we say with the words we point to. - Recognize words we know by heart - Keep reading *Guided reading - Key details, Retell, Connections, Unknown words, Ask and answer questions about text, support answers with examples from text) Writers have super powers - Spell the best we can - Stretch out the words *Writing celebration - Counting/ writing numbers to 12 - Comparing numbers to 12 - Greater than / Less than - Sorting/ classifying by attributes - Counting and representin g numbers up to 21 - 2D/3D geometry - Adding whole numbers - Subtracting whole numbers (Within 10) - Counting to 50 Measuri ng and compari ng length and weight - Making combinatio ns of 10 - Compose and decompose 11-19 - Counting and using number patterns to 100 - Making and comparing shapes - Solving addition and subtraction problems Readers are detectives - Read books that are just right for them - Use the pictures to read the words - Use patterns to figure out tricky words - Solve their tricky words by breaking it into parts they know * Look all the way through words * Use the first letter/last letter * Tricky sounds - Stop and re-read parts that dont make sense - Stop and think about what happened in the story Writing detectives - Writing for readers - Conventions - Ideas/Writing on paper Readers read like scientists - Learn from nonfiction books - Read nonfiction text features (Labels, pictures, table of contents, ect.) - Stop and think about what they learned - Think of questions and look for answers - Become experts on topics and teach others (Key details and retell) *How are books about the same topic the same and different Nonfiction Project - All About Books (animals) Readers are storytellers - Make in a movie in their mind and watch it as the story changes - Reread a story until we sound like a storyteller - Use voice, facial expressions, and body gestures to go with the characters actions and feelings (Acting out) - Retell - Think about the elements of literature - Read everything they can get their eyes on - Challenge themselves

Writers Workshop

Math

We are writers - Stories through pictures - Writers workshop strategies - Small moments - Calendar - Strategies math for - Puzzles counting by 10 Explorat ion Describin g location and position - Names of shapes

Authors as mentors Writing fiction stories - Parts of a story

Science Projects All About Me - My classroom community (rules) - How are we the same and how are we different? We are a classroom community - Class meetings - Kelso We are problem solvers - Brain Hand - Calm/Safe Space - Kelso Childrens Museum Celebration s of light around the world

Fabric Fabric around the world

Animals 2x2 Animals around the world

Positive Discipline

Bugs/Wishes

Field Trips

Childrens Theater

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