Reading
Writing
Students will be able to: Students will be able to: • Know print conveys meaning • Know writing conveys meaning • Associates sounds with written words • Know pictures convey meaning • Know what a letter is • Know writing consists of letters and words • Know what a number is • Can point to the words on a page • Know what a word is • Can point to the letters on a page • Distinguishes between letters and numbers • Know words consist of a combination of letters and sounds • Distinguishes between numbers and words • Can point to the individual letters in their name • Know pictures/illustrations convey meaning • Represents stories and experiences through pictures • Know a book is held upright • Can dictate a story from a picture they have drawn • Know a book has a front cover • Pretend to read own writing • Know a book has a back cover • Can point to and read their marks on a page • Know a book contains pages • Use various early writing skills to express ideas (e.g., scribble writing, random symbols, random letter-‐like marks) • Know the pages in a book are turned from front to back • Express ideas through dictation • Know the pages in a book are turned one page at a time • Dictate a story, including a beginning, middle, and end • Know print is read from left to right • Dictate a personal narrative • Know print is read from top to bottom • Know writing can be used for different purposes (e.g., to make lists, • Know a book has a front cover make cards, to send messages, to write stories) • Know a book has a back cover • Know there are different forms of writing (e.g., journals, sign-‐in • Know a book is read from front to sheets, name cards, cards with words and pictures, charts) • Know some letters/sounds of the alphabet • Know how to trace own name • Know how to spell own name • Know the letters/sounds in own name • Recognize own name in print • Know how to copy own name • Know letters, labels and storybooks contain print • Know how to write own name • Know print can tell a story and be informative • Explore a variety of writing tools and materials • Know labels, letters, and storybooks serve a particular purpose • Hold writing tools correctly • Show interest in reading signs, labels and logos (environmental print) • Know meaning of familiar environmental print • Know meaning of various traffic signs • Use illustrations to predict story events • Use illustrations to predict story outcomes • Pretend to read to self and others • Begin to choose reading material and has favorites (e.g., books, magazines and charts) • Know a title is the name of a book • Know an author writes books • Know an illustrator draws the pictures in a book • Use pictures to aid comprehension about content • Know a story has a beginning, middle, and end • Know a factual account is real and true • Know a fictional account is not real or true • Know stories may be similar to personal experiences
Speaking & Listening Students will be able to: • Speak clearly and audibly • Use expressive language skills • Use appropriate voice level when speaking • Use descriptive words • Use new vocabulary to describe feelings and thoughts • Use new vocabulary to describe experiences • Use new vocabulary to describe observations • Use words to describe color, size and shape • Tell a simple personal narrative • Retell or create a story using the special language of storybooks e.g., "Once upon a time") • Ask relevant questions • Answer questions appropriately • Know it is appropriate to take turns while talking • Talk about one topic for several turns with a peer or adult • Listen to gain and share information • Listen to perform a task • Listen for enjoyment • Listen to learn what happened in a story • Listen to converse with an adult or peer • Respond appropriately in conversation • Adapt language to meet different social and situational needs • Understand spoken directions • Follow one-‐step spoken directions • Follow two-‐step spoken directions • Follow three-‐step spoken directions • Understand a varied listening and speaking vocabulary • Hear and discriminate the sounds of language in the environment • Know what a rhyme is • Recognize matching sounds and rhyme Listens to fiction, rhymes, songs, non-‐fiction, poetry, and drama
NUMBERS and OPERATIONS
PATTERNS, FUNCTIONS, AND ALGEBRA
GEOMETRY
Students will use visualization and spatial reasoning to analyze characteristics and properties of geometric shape
Students will recognize and create patterns and connect them to real world situations
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Students will understand numbers, multiple ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number system.
Students will determine what can be measured and how
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Students will be able to: • Duplicate simple
• Count the items in a collection and know the last counting word tells how many items are in the collection (1 to 10) • Count out (produce) a collection of a specified size 1 to 10 • Verbally count by 1’s to 10 • Explore the different representations of a group of objects • Draw pictures or other informal symbols to represent a spoken number up to 5 • Draw pictures or other informal symbols to represent how many in a collection up to 5 • Recognize numerals (0-‐5) • Use and understand the terms first and last • Develop addition and subtraction readiness with sums up to 4 and subtraction involving one to four items, using manipulatives
MEASUREMENT
•Develop language such as bigger, longer, and taller to discuss length • Relate specific times such as day and night
• Match shapes, first with same size and orientation, then with different sizes and orientation
patterns using concrete objects
• Informally play with solids (i.e., building blocks)
DATA ANALYSIS and PROBABILITY
Students will collect, organize, display, and analyze data
• Sort and organize objects by one attribute (e., color, size, or shape) • Use physical objects to make graphs • Count and compare groups formed (quantify groups formed) • Describe the attributes of objects
JK is a two-year program where four units of thematic cross-curriculum instruction are completed each year.
Year 1 All About Me
Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes
Students will be able to:
• Name body parts. • Identify similarities and differences on people. • Identify the five senses and sense organs, and explore using the senses. • Discover how the body moves and what it needs to grow. • Identify authority figures in the home and school. • Identify members of their family. • Recognize who they are as individuals in relation to others – family members, friends and classroom community. • Name groups to which they belong. • Learn to use words to express our feelings to others.
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Learn about traditional tales that emphasize the importance of good choices. Practice skills that involve repetition and retelling. Listen to songs and literature that reflect the cultural heritage of people from different cultures. Identify different cultures through the study of holidays, customs and traditions utilizing language, stories, folktales, music and the arts.
Year 2
Health and Nutrition
Land and Ocean Animals
Students will be able to:
• Make choices that promote a healthy life style • Discover how foods contribute to strong healthy growing bodies • Understand that all people need food, shelter and water to grow • Understand the need for exercise and rest • Practice healthy routines • Recognize and select healthy foods • Recognize good oral hygiene habits • Identify who a stranger is and possible dangers related to them
Students will be able to:
• Understand that all like animals share the same characteristics • Understand that all animals have basic needs. Animals need water, food and air. • Explore the ocean and land as a habitat • Describe animal’s characteristics and how their body parts help in their survival • Differentiate between land and ocean creatures • Compare and contrast animal characteristics • Experiment with floating and sinking. • Make waves • Learn how oceans differ from other bodies of water. • Observe properties of water.
Transportation
Australia
Students will be able to:
Students will be able to:
• Discover and identify various modes of transportation. • Investigate how people use transportation to travel from one place to another. • Identify basic road signs. • Identify concepts related to street safety. • Identify and correctly use terms related to location, direction and distance including: up/down; over/under; here/there; front/back; behind/in front of.
• Investigate how people in different cultures respond to their environment. • Identify ways that individuals are unique and ways that they are the same. • Identify different cultures through the study of holidays, customs and traditions utilizing language, stories, folktales, music and the arts. • Use pictures to locate familiar places. • Use nonlinguistic representations to show understanding of geographic terms.
Insects and Spiders
Students will be able to:
• Understand that All like insects and spiders share the same characteristics • Name insect and spider body spider body parts. Will contrast insects and spiders by identifying and counting legs, wings, antennae, and body parts • All insects and spiders have basic needs. Will discover that insects and spiders eat. • Describe insect and spider’s characteristics and how their body parts help in their survival • Discover where insects and spiders live and create insect habitats (i.e. bee hives, spider webs) • Distinguish between insects and spiders • Discover how insects move.
Plants
Students will be able to:
• Learn about various plants, and their attributes (some give us food, some have flowers, etc.) • Understand the cycle of growth • Understand what plants need in order to grow. • Use tools such as a microscope or a magnifying glass to further investigate and make observations .
Music
Art
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Students will develop art and fine motor skills through: Rhyme • Cutting Dance and move • Tearing through the space • Pasting with oral cues • Identifying shapes • Stamping Develop memory skills • Finger painting, Sing songs connected • Paint mixing with the curriculum • Drawing with glue and pastels, Play musical games • Collage, Experience percussion • Experiences with play instruments dough • 3-‐D design (sculptures, Be introduce to the murals, clay) concept of beat • Stitching
Greek Language Students will be able to:
• Be exposed to pre-‐writing and pre-‐reading skills in Greek • Comprehend common expressions and structures used in everyday situations as spoken by teachers and native speakers accustomed to dealing with language learners. • Participate in limited oral exchanges on familiar topics to develop proficiency in the target language.
Gross Motor Skills Students will be able to: • Travel safely in a large group • Run • Stand still • Slide, • Throw underhand • Catch an object • Kick a stationary ball • Build with blocks