September
All About Me
-Names
-Family
-Birthdays
-Friends
-Favorite Colors and Things
Pigs
Zoo
October
-Spiders
-Skeletons
-Our Body
Farm/Harvest
-Trees
-Apples
-Pumpkins
Clifford
November
Olden Days
-Thanksgiving
-Quilts
-The Little Red Hen
Color Day
December
Jan Brett Author Study
-Cookies
-Gingerbread Man
--Mittens and Kittens
-Pets
Five Senses in Winter
January
New Year’s
-Time
-Chinese New Year
Martin Luther King
Water Science and Ocean
Nursery Rhymes
February
100th Day of School
-Ants and Insects
-Monkey Tales
Jobs
-Black Inventors
-Presidents
Dental Health
Traffic Safety
March
Weather
-Air
-Seasons
-Homes
-Night
-Space
Bears and Hibernation
April
The Pond
-Butterflies
-Frogs
-Eggs
-Ducks
Margaret Wise Brown(The Runaway Bunny) Author Study
Garden
May
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Jack and the Beanstalk
-Sunflowers
Eric Carle Author Study
June
The Three Piggy Opera
The Wild West
or Egypt
or Circus
M&Ms Fun
Many classroom activities are geared to be multi-level so that children at all developmental stages may benefit. I use an integrated thematic approach to teach. Each topic tends to lead into the next so students may begin to see connections between subjects. Children learn best when they are actively doing things that connect to something they already know. Math, Language Arts, Social Studies and Science objectives are all covered under an overlying theme. Based on class survey or need some themes may be extended or shortened.
Our curriculum is planned around our reading series, science curriculum and student interests and meets individual, class, school, state, and national educational goals in the most appropriate manner. We use district-adopted reading and mathematics instructional materials including Project Read, DRA2, Guided Reading and Chicago Math.
Parents, if you have special knowledge or experience with any of the topics below, we would love for you to visit our classroom to share your expertise.
The plans below are flexible. Units may be covered at other times of the year depending on student interest.
Long Term Goals and Themes
- Students will perform at least one play to build oral speaking skills.
- Students will complete two author studies.
- Students will learn concepts of print, rhyming, and word families such as the -at family (cat, mat, rat, sat) and -an family (can, man, ran, tan) through the study of nursery rhymes and classic children's literature.
- The children will keep and read poetry journals to learn concepts of print and basic sight words.
- Students will participate in writing workshop.
- Students will participate in Guided Reading groups.
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