Kindergarten Curriculum Connection
October
Reading Level
Reading:
Students are formatively assessed throughout the quarter using running records aligned with the Fountas and Pinnell Reading Levels. The running records will be used to guide instruction and determine students reading levels. The summative assessment (end of quarter) for reading is the determination of a student’s F&P reading level.
Reading Unit 2
Emergent Reading: Looking Closely at Familiar Texts
Students will be able to look closely at familiar texts to practice and build their reading skills. Readers will recall everything they know such as looking at the cover, looking at the pictures, and telling the story they see. Students will also learn to match the pictures with the story they are telling and learn how to read with a reading partner.
Phonics
The phonics skills for second quarter in kindergarten are:
● Short a
● Short i
● Short o
● Short u
● Short e
● Short a, i, o
● Short a, i, o, e
Handwriting
Teacher will pace students throughout the year through the Handwriting Without Tears Book. As needed teachers will provide practice time for students who need support in print handwriting.
Interactive Vocabulary
The teacher will employ a variety of strategies while teaching unit vocabulary.
Strategies are based on student need and understanding and application of each term listed in the vocabulary section. Instructional strategies include:
● Organizers like concept mapping or Frayer model
● Cooperative learning to discuss meaning of the terms: think-pair-share, shoulder partner, think write
● Similarities and differences looking at similar and different words to the term
- Nonlinguistic representation
Vocabulary
Audience-a group of listeners or viewers
Author- the person who wrote the story
Illustrator-the person who made the pictures for a story
Illustrations- graphic representation of important content(for example, art, photos, maps, graphs, charts) in a fiction or nonfiction text.
Strategies--a step-by-step how-to. A reading strategy is a “deliberate” effortful, intentional and purposeful action(s) a reader takes to accomplish a specific task or skill.
Storybook- type of text that tells a story
Writing:
Looking Closely: Observing, Labeling, and Listing Like Scientists
Students will learn to write like a scientist by observing, drawing, and labeling real things. They will learn to say more about what they are studying by writing two or more word labels and rehearsing their work with their peers. By the end of the unit, students will look for objects that connect and learn to write their own pattern books.
In
Math
Science
Students will develop an understanding of patterns and variations in local weather and the purpose of weather forecasting to prepare for, and respond to, severe weather. Students will formulate answers to questions, such as “What is the weather like today and how is it different from yesterday?”
Essential Questions: Students will keep considering… Patterns Cause and effect: What further investigations would help determine if these relationships are cause and effect? Vocabulary: Fall - the season after summer and before winter Pattern - a repeated design Rain-water falling in drops from clouds Scientist -a person who is studying or has expert knowledge of science Severe - very great; intense Sleet - rain containing some ice, as when snow melts as it falls Snow - precipitation in the form of small white ice crystals Spring - the season after winter and before summer, in which things begin to grow Summer - the warmest season of the year Thermometer - an instrument for measuring and indicating temperature, Thunderstorm- a storm with thunder and lightning and typically also heavy rain or hail Tornado – a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud Weather - the star round which the earth orbits Wind- the form of a current of air blowing from a particular direction Winter - the coldest season of the year