Kindergarten Yearlong Ongoing

Instructional Goals

Resources/Tools

Key Vocabulary

Alphabet

Land of the Letter People Program,
Pictionaries

Upper and lower case letter identification, letter/sound recognition.

Phonemic Awareness and Concepts of Print

Various activities are interwoven into our Thematic Units. Big Books, Daily Message, Charts, Posters, Journals

Rhyming, segmentation, blending, book handling, awareness of print/message, directional rules, high frequency words

 

September

Instructional Goals

Resources/Tools

Key Vocabulary

Shape & Color review

Shape Parade/Mathland

Square, rectangle, rhomus, circle, triangle, oval
Primary colors

Ocean

Traveling Tide pool

ocean

Tide pool

Books:

sea star

Coral reef

A House for Hermit Crab

bi-valve

Shore

Swimmy
Grandpa, Grandpa

Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian

Patterns and Sorting

Big Science – Ocean Life

tide pool

 

Rainbow Fish

coral reef

 

Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor

exoskeleton (endoskeleton)
baleen

Mini Units:

Down By the Sea

regenerate

Mini Unit: Apples, Nature

apple graph, Nature Walk

 

 

October  

Instructional Goals

Resources/Tools

Key Vocabulary

Continue Ocean Unit

Live Tide Pool Demonstration

Sea stars, sea urchins, baleen, horseshoe crabs

Fire Safety (stop, drop, roll, fire plan: two ways out, meeting place, 911)

Learn Not to Burn
I Am Fire
Clifford the Fire House Dog

Stop, drop, & Roll, Crawl under smoke

 

Sing It Say It (CD)

smoke detector, alarm meeting place

Halloween

Halloween books & Spooky House Math

AB, ABC Patterns
All together
How many more?

 

November

Instructional Goals

Resources/Tools

Key Vocabulary

All About Me

Uniquely Me Chart

unique

Family

Books:

favorite

Friends

I Like Me

measure

Future goals

All About You

family

Address

My Hands

friends

Phone number

The Five Senses

senses

Five senses

Self portraits

graph

Measurement (height, hands, feet)

MathLand

 

Future goals

All About You

family

Address

My Hands

friends

Phone number

The Five Senses

senses

Five senses

Self portraits

graph

Measurement (height, hands, feet)

MathLand

 

 

December

Instructional Goals

Resources/Tools

Key Vocabulary

Family Celebrations

Family Traditions

holiday

 

Sharing Times

sharing

 

Books:

tradition

Mini: Winter

The Giving Tree

celebration

 

Claude the Dog

giving

 

The Snowy Day

winter

 

January

Instructional Goals

Resources/Tools

Key Vocabulary

Dinosaurs

Museum of Science
Dinosaur Kit

names of dinosaurs

Names of  dinosaurs

Magic School Bus- Dinosaurs CD ROM

herbivore

Counting, Comparing sizes

Dino-counters, MathLand

carnivore

Carnivores

Excavation Kits

omnivore

Herbivores

Books:

fossils

Omnivores

Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp

extinct

 

Daniel’s Dinosaurs

excavate

 

If the Dinosaurs Came Back

paleontologist

 

Patrick’s Dinosaur

 

 

Digging up Dinosaurs

 

 

My Visit to the Dinosaurs

 

 

We Sing: Dinosaurs

 

 

February

Instructional Goals

Resources/Tools

Key Vocabulary

Clifford / Author study: Norman Bridwell

Norman Bridwell video

first

 

Books:

second

Pet Care

Clifford the Big Red Dog

third

Journal writing

Clifford’s Family

author

Measurement

Clifford Gets a Job

Journal

 

Clifford’s Manners

pet care

Mini Unit: Valentine’s Day
100th Day

Clifford the Small Red Puppy

veterinarian

Counting to 100
Counting by 10’s

(Various other Clifford Titles)

breed

 

Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for the 100th Day

hundred

 

The 100th Day of School

tens

 

MathLand

 

 

March

Instructional Goals

Resources/Tools

Key Vocabulary

Author Study: Dr. Seuss

Books:

word families

rhyming and rhythm

The Cat in the Hat

rhyme

cooking

Green Eggs and Ham

nonsense words

 

Hop on Pop

recipe

 

(Various other Dr. Seuss Titles)

 

 

The Cat in the Hat
and
Green Eggs and Ham board games

 

 

 

Dr. Seuss videos

 

 

Green Eggs and Ham Breakfast

 

 

April

Instructional Goals

Resources/Tools

Key Vocabulary

Author Study: Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter Videos

exert

 

Books:

 

 Sequence (first, second, third, fourth)

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

implore

Comparing numbers

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny

fortnight

Patterns

The Tale of Jemima Puddle Duck

pinafore

Cooperation

The Tailor of Gloucester

twist

 

Mathland Units

 

 

Story Map Carrots

 

 

Egg Math (using rabbits, eggs and chicks erasers)

 

 

Rabbit visit and talk

 

 

May

Instructional Goals

Resources/Tools

Key Vocabulary

Grocery Store

Books:

food groups

Nutrition

Tommy at the Grocery Store

dairy

Food Groups

On Market Street

produce

Grouping

Shopping

meat

Money

26 Letters and 99 Cents

fruit

Transportation

Transportation Theme Box:

Airplanes by Byron Barton

The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper

The Wheels On The Bus by Mary Ann Kovalski

Load ‘Em UpTrucks by Deborah Pearson

Vehicles
Wheels
Land
SeaAir

Mini Unit: Young Authors

Eating the Alphabet

vegetables

 

Field trip to Roche Bros.

bakery

 

MathLand

author

 

Classroom Store

illustrator

 

Nutrition baskets

publish

 

 

binding

 

 June

Instructional Goals

Resources/Tools

Key Vocabulary

Author Study/Eric Carle

Eric Carle Video

metamorphosis

Insects

Butterfly Kit

caterpillar

Patterns

Books:

chrysalis

Symmetry

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

insect

Geometry/Shapes

The Very Quiet Cricket

abdomen

 

The Grouchy Lady Bug

thorax

 

(Other Eric Carle Titles)

antenna  

 

MathLand

symmetry

Mini Unit: Mother Goose

Mother Goose Play

collage