Focus for Instruction

Our Focus for Instruction for the Year in Kindergarten 
                   Math   Reading  Writing  History Science    

                            

August 14th*

3

Unit 1 Counting

People Sorting

Buttons

Setting Routines

Setting Routines

 

Rules and

August 19th

5

Fiction: Setting routines

 

Civics K.10a-g

Routines (Citizenship)

August 26th

5

September 2nd*

4

Nonfiction: print organization

Print first and last name.

 

Land/Aquatic

September 9th

5

Fiction: Print organization

 

 

Animals

September 16th*

4

Unit 2 Counting

Quantities,

Comparing

Lengths

(Counting &

Measurement 1)

Nonfiction: Text features

Draw pictures about

Patriotism/Skills

Plant/ Animal Life Cycles

September 23rd

5

September 30th

5

Fiction: Predictions, prior knowledge, and retelling beginning events.

experiences.

K.11a-c

(Fall Season)

October 8th

5

Directionality

 

Patterns in Nature

October 7th*

4

Nonfiction: Identify topic,

 

History/

Physical

October 14th*

4

Unit 3 Make a

Shape, Fill a

Hexagon (2D

Geometry) Patterns

predict, and text format.

 

Famous

Properties of

October 21st

5

Fiction:

Retelling and story structure.

Draw pictures.

Americans and

Holidays K.2ab, K.3

Objects

October 28th

5

 

November 4th*

3

Fiction: Questioning,

Use letters and

(Thanksgiving)

Changes Occur

November 11th*

2

Unit 4 Collect,

Count, and

Measure

(Counting &

Measurement 2)

Identify characters and setting, sequence events.

phonetically

spelled words to write about

History /

 

November 18th

5

Living & Non-

November 25th*

2

Accurately finger point and

identify words in context.

pictures.

Past and

Present/ Patriotism K.

11d

living

December 2nd

5

Five Senses

December 9th

5

December 16th

5

 

End of 1st Semester

 

 

 

January 6th

5

Unit 5 Build a

Block, Build a

Wall (3D

Geometry)

Nonfiction:

Text features, headings

&pictures.

 

History /

Famous

Americans and

Plant/ Animal

Life Cycles/ Patterns

(Winter

January 13th

5

January 20th*

4

January 27th

5

Unit 6 How

Many Now?

(Addition,

Subtraction, & the Number

System 1), Money

Fiction:

Retelling and story language.

Print all upper and lower case

letters

Holidays K.3

(MLK and Pres.

Day) K.11c-d

Season)

February 3rd

5

Shadows

February 10th

5

 

February 17th

5

Nonfiction review

accurately and

independently.

Economics K.8, K.9a-b

Properties of

Water

(States of Matter)

February 24th

5

March 2nd

5

 

March 9th

5

Unit 7 How

Many Noses, How Many

Eyes? (Data)

Fiction review

 

 

 

March 16th*

4

Plant and Animal

March 23rd

5

Nonfiction: Set purpose and confirm

Place spaces between words, begin sentences

Geography K.4, K.5a-e, K.6a-c,

Life Cycles

(Spring Season- eggs/seeds/

March 30th

5

April 6th

5

Equal Sharing

predictions.

with capital letters,

K.7

babies)

April 13th - 17th Spring Break

April 20th

5

Unit 8 Ten

Frames & Teen

Numbers,

Volume,

Temperature, and Time

Fiction:Set purpose and confirm predictions.

and use

History and

Recycling

April 27th

5

May 4th

5

Fiction &Nonfiction:

Sequence of events and questioning.

punctuation at the end of sentences.

Patriotism (Indp Day) K.3, K.

11a-d

Magnets

May 11th

5

Measurement

May 18th

5

May 25th

5

 

End of 2nd Semester

 

 

 

*Indicates a short week.

Review and Testing