Kindergarten (Thematic)
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In this course, students will experience a thematic kindergarten approach to learning reading and math skills. The course is comprised of five main components: poetry, reading, writing, phonemic concepts, and math. Students will be introduced to one poem per unit, where the poem will act as a springboard for reading, writing, and phonemic skills development. The course recommends a Kid Writing Approach to writing. The student will be expected to learn how to become a writer by first creating detailed story pictures first, and then be encouraged to begin to match letter sounds into print to form words. The reading instruction will provide the student opportunities to experience shared reading time with an adult with on-ine and offline stories. The student will build phonemic awareness skills raising his/her ability to think consciously about and perform mental operations on speech sound units in the form of: the ability to segment sounds, blend sounds, and delete sounds. The course will build math skills integrated by math experiences in the later units of the course.
Enduring Understanding
The student will understand:
Reading:
- Oral language helps to shape our lives and build connections to others.
- Good readers employ many strategies to help them make meaning of texts.
- Different readers may respond to the same text in different ways due to their background
knowledge/experience. - Good information comes from a variety of sources.
- A good story has a pattern or plan.
Mathematics:
- How math is used daily to keep track of time, to represent quantity, colors and shapes, to recognize
likenesses and differences, and to record data. - How mathematical concepts are used in the real world daily to obtain, translate, and process
information. - The relationships among geometric figures and the real world.
- That two- and three-dimensional objects can be described, classified, and analyzed by their attributes.
- How patterns and relationships are used to solve problems in mathematical situations.
- How relationships and patterns can be visual, oral, or physical.
- How patterns in mathematical situations have numbers or objects that repeat in predictable ways.
- How number sense is developed by using real numbers; verbally, physically, and symbolically.
- How numeral represent quantities.
- How people use counting to represent, organize, and analyze data.
- How no matter the arrangement of a set, the number remains constant (conservation of numbers).
- How questions can be answered by collecting, recording, and analyzing data.
- How statistical data is collected, represented, and interpreted.
- How numbers can be represented by equivalent combinations of numbers.
- How numbers can be broken into parts in different ways.
Essential Questions
Reading:
- What makes oral language proficient?
- What constitutes good speech?
- What strategies do good readers use to help them make meaning of texts?
- How can we learn about ourselves from reading literature?
- In what ways do readers gather information?
- Why do we read?
- What is a story?
Mathematics:
- How is math used each day?
- How will students consider the predictability of patterns and relationships to solve
mathematical.problems? - How are geometric shapes an integral part of our world?
- What data needs to be collected and how can it be recorded?
- What, when, why, and how do people count?
- How will students use operations to put numbers together and take them apart?
Content Topics:
This course is divided into 18 units covering the topics: colors, shapes, alphabet, following directions, counting, seasons, vowels sounds, animals, gardening, ocean, and outer space.
Additional Resources Needed
Textbooks
Math: Chapter Book Kindergarten
By: Taschenbuch
Publisher: Harcourt School
Workbooks
Student Edition Chapter Workbooks – ISBN: 0-15-322049-X
Student Edition Practice Workbooks – ISBN: 0-15-320434-6
Teachers Edition Practice Workbook – ISBN: 0-15-320658-6
Course Materials
Poetry Notebook
Two Pocket Folder
Writing Journal
General Art Supplies
Content Topics
Unit 1
The Accounting Equation and T Accounts
Unit 2
General Journal, General Ledger, Cash Accounts
Unit 3
Worksheets and Financial Statements
Unit 4
Special Journals and Subsidiary Ledgers
Key Skills
Reading:
- Demonstrate knowledge of letter sounds
- Use context clues to comprehend stories
- Identify word families
Writing:
- Use phonetic spelling for middle and ending sounds
- Use a capital letter at beginning of sentence, ending punctuation, and spacing between words
- Demonstrate writing complete sentences
- Use detail in writing/illustration
Mathematics:
- Demonstrate one-to-one correspondence
- Develop a sense of time (days of week, months, seasons, important events, etc.)
- Develop number recognition from 0 to12
- Name eight basic colors
- Name four basic geometric shapes
- Sort by attributes
- Develop class graphs
- Identify same/different
- Name and describe four basic 2-D geometric shapes
- Explore and describe 3-D shapes
- Sort 2-D and 3-D shapes
- Use positional vocabulary to manipulate shapes
- Use shapes to make a design or picture
- Use shapes to fill an area
- Construct 2-D shapes
- Match 3-D blocks to a 2-D outline
- Recognize geometric figures in their environment
- Use appropriate vocabulary to describe 2-D and 3-D shapes
- Sort 2-D and 3-D shapes
- Match shapes
- Recognize, read, record, copy, construct, and extend patterns
- Predict what comes next in a pattern
- Represent a physical pattern using objects
- Create two-part linear patterns
- Demonstrate problem-solving strategies
- Create a linear border using pattern blocks
- Use mathematical language to explain thinking
- Identify the unit of a pattern and use it to extend or delete from that pattern
- Extend and create a two-part pattern
- Extend and create a two and three part pattern: Investigations 1 & 2
- Identify and write numbers 0 – 12
- Connect numerals to the quantities they represent
- Represent quantities with pictures, numerals, or words
- Develop strategies for counting and keeping track of quantities
- Create sets of a given size: Investigations 3 & 4
- Differentiate between least and most
- Use concrete representation to illustrate number stories
- Measure by direct comparison
- Compare two quantities to find which is more
- Count groups of objects
- Find the total of two single digit numbers: Investigations 5 & 6
- Order quantities from least to most or most to least
- Describe and compare amounts
- Visualize and arrange a set of objects
- Create individual bar graphs
- Record mathematical information
- Solve a problem with many possible solutions
- Participate in counting to 100 by ones and tens
- Count items in groups of 10
- Compare the volume among sets of 100 items
- Develop and use strategies for counting and comparing quantities
- Collect, record, and represent data in a variety of ways
- Compose survey questions
- Describe categories and sort objects into two groups
- Solve a mathematical problem based on data
- Create a representation to explain a problem-solving strategy
Assessments
Each of the five major components of the course will be assessed using the following:
Poetry:
- Parent report on daily poem interaction
- Print awareness testing done by instructor
- Instructor observation of poetry notebook work
- Child and instructor interaction with poems
Reading:
- Parent report on daily reading and a log of reading time for online materials and offline materials
- Print awareness testing done by instructor
- Instructor observation of child reading selected leveled text
- Instructor viewing story comprehension responses in writing journal
Writing Journal:
- Parent report on daily writing progress
- Instructor assess number of sight words child can write
- Instructor observation of daily writing progress
Phonemic Awareness/Phonics:
- Parent report of daily activities
- Letter identification/sound assessments
- Instructor test phonemic skills of child
Mathematics:
- Parent report of daily work
- Chapter test administered by the instructor
