Kindergarten Curriculum

4th Nine Weeks

 

PULASKI ASSESSMENT OF READING/ SKILLS

LANGUAGE ARTS

MATH

SOCIAL STUDIES

SCIENCE

PRACTICAL LIVING/ ARTS & HUMANITIES

WRITING

 

WEEK 28

Color Word- brown

 

Breakthrough Title- Wood

 

Letter Oo

 

Guest:  Construction Worker

 

More than, less than, or equal

 

ADD #86-90

Basic needs and wants

 

Exchanging money and goods (Marketplace)

Resources

Recycling

Character Word:  Optimism

 

Guidance: Conflict Resolution

 

 

WEEK 29

 

Breakthrough Title- Shapes

 

Letter Ee

Review skills

Rote count to 50

 

ADD #91-95

 

 

 

Create shape design pictures

 

WEEK 30

*CVC words

*PCLP entry- Science Open Response- Are dinosaurs on Earth today?

Breakthrough Title- Dinosaurs and Goodnight

 

 

Telling time to the hour

 

ADD # 96-100

 

2.2.6 Use standard units to measure volume of rectangular prisms, liquid capacity, money, time, and temperature

 

POS- Students will tell time to hour

 

 

 

 

*Living/nonliving Animals

*Fossils

*Dinosaurs- herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore

 

2.1.3 Fossils found in Earth materials provide evidence about organisms that lived long ago and the nature of the environment at that time.

 

POS- Students will understand that fossils provide evidence about organisms that lived long ago.

 

 

 

WEEK 31

Color word: black

Breakthrough Title- In

 

the Mirror

 

Guest Speaker- Nurse 

Telling time to

 

the hour/half hour

ADD #101-102

2.2.6 Use standard units to measure volume of rectangular prisms, liquid capacity, money, time, and temperature

 

POS- Students will tell time to hour and half-hour

 

 

Human Body *head,

 

shoulders, knees, toes, arms, legs, trunk, fingers

3.1.3 Each plant or animal has structures that serve different functions in growth, survival, and reproduction.

POS- Students will understand that organisms have different structures that serve different functions.

Character Word: 

 

Contemplation

 

Guidance: Safety/Abuse

 

Human Body

 

 

WEEK 32

 

Breakthrough Title- Bruna Bear

*Skip Counting- Introduce counting by 10s, 5s, 2s

*Story Problem strategies(Act out, use manipulatives, concrete objects, draw picture, describe and discuss a problem

 

1.2.4 Skip-count forward and backward  1.1.3 Odd and even numbers, composite and prime numbers, multiples, and factors 

 

POS- Students

 

will explore multiples, skip count by fives and tens.  Students will explore skip counting by twos.

 

 

 

 

Five Senses

Human Body

Dramatic play with sensory experiences

 

WEEK 33

 

Breakthrough Title—What’s Black and White and Moo’s?

 

Fractions- whole/half

Introduce whole/half/equal parts using manipulatives

 

1.1.1 Whole numbers and fractions 1.1.5 Multiple representations of numbers

 

POS- Students will develop beginning fractional concepts.

Geography

Habitats              Animals—How they live and move

3.3.1 Plants make their own food.  All animals depend on plants.  Some animals eat plants for food.  Other animals eat animals that eat plants. 3.3.2 The world has many different environments.  Distinct environments support the lives of different types of organisms.

POS- Students will understand that all animals depend on plants for food.  Students will understand that organisms’ patterns of behaviors are related to the nature of organisms’ environments.

 

 

 

WEEK 34

 PCLP entry-

Short Story

Breakthrough Title-- Wishes 

 Estimation

 

1.2.5 Estimate quantities of

 

objects  1.2.6 Estimate computational results using an appropriate strategy

 

POS- Students will explore appropriate estimation procedures.

 

Solar System

One, One, is the Sun

Night/Day/Sun/Moon/Heat

 

 

2.2.1 The Sun provides the light and heat necessary to maintain the temperature of Earth.  2.2.2 Objects in the sky have properties, locations, and real or apparent movements that can be observed and described. 

 

POS- Students will understand that the Sun provides the light and heat necessary to maintain the temperature of the Earth. Students will understand that common objects in the sky have properties, locations, and movements that can be observed and described.

 

“Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”

 

WEEK 35

Color word: pink

Breakthrough Title- Clowning Around with Letters

 

Guest Speaker- Clown with balloons

Review Addition

Careers

Clowns

Plants and Flowers           Common to Kentucky       

How plants grow and change

 

 

 

 

WEEK 36

 

Breakthrough Title- Colors of the World

 

Guest Speaker- Beth Wilson County Extension Office

Review Subtraction

 

 

 

 

 

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