Skills

(Fundations, Spelling)

Fundations Intro

Large Alphabet Cards (Drill Sound Cards)

Lowercase letters

Fine motor skills forming skyline letters

Print/letter awareness

Capital letters in your name

Compound word and syllable blending and segmenting

Skills continued from prior months

Fluency and phrasing echo reading

Uppercase letter formation

identifying rhyme and rhythm with prompting and support

initial sounds

Literacy Learning

(Domains/Modules)

Domain 1

All About Me (25 days)

• Environmental Noises

• Phonological Awareness

• Print Awareness

• Fine Motor Skills and Handwriting

• Shared Writing

• Skills Small Group Activities

Small Group Instruction:

Small Group instruction includes a range of activities that are designed
to be conducted in various areas of the classroom.
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Classic Tales Domain

The Lion and the Mouse

Domain 1 All About Me continued

Begin Domain 2 (45 days)

Families and Communities
• environmental noises
• rhyme awareness and production
• compound word and syllable blending and segmenting
• fine motor skills and handwriting strokes

Small Group Instruction and Learning Centers:

Vocabulary (for learning center) :
• son
• daughter
• sister
• brother
• baby
• mom/mother
• dad/father
• parents
• grandmother
• grandfather
• grandparents
• stepparents
• stepmom
• stepdad
• stepsister
• stepbrother
• pet
• celebration
• tradition
• chores

Classic Tales Domain

The City Mouse and the Country Mouse

Domain 2

Families and Communities continued

• Skills continued

Classic Tales Domain

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Complete Domain 2 Families and Communities

• Skills continued

Classic Tales

The Gingerbread Man

 Begin Domain 3 Animals

• syllable blending and segmentation

• sequencing and narrative storytelling

• fine motor skills and handwriting strokes

• initial sound identification

• drawing a “sound picture” for /m/

Classic Tales Domain

The Shoemaker and the Elves

Writing

Facilitating Emergent Writing in Learning Centers

Students will represent their ideas
through writing by drawing pictures, scribbling, writing letter-like shapes,
and, eventually, writing individual letters and even words.

Students will continue to develop and practice fine motor skills and handwriting strokes.

• First, they trace the stroke with their fingers, then trace with a primary crayon, and finally write the stroke independently.

writing first name independently,telling a story through illustration, copying symbols

Story Sequencing (students will illustrate a sequence of pictures to tell a story)

Tracing and copying last name

Vocabulary

humans
infants
mood
prefer
unique
between
exactly
shades
beneath
inside
joints
muscle
planted
softly
aware
often
only
senses
sometimes
alive
glide
shiny
touch
already
clutch
grow
siblings
brain
huddle
protect
shelter
survive
temperature
amazing
bathe
germs
quietly

The Lion and the Mouse

accident
great
promise

cherish
countries
cousins
guide
visit
celebrate
family
sharing
bright
handy
stilts
straw
weave
activities
chores
organized
pretend
repeat
behind
brim
full
grinned
nearly
struggle
decorate
honor
lanterns
throughout
traditions
career
interesting
introduce
robe
recycle

The City Mouse and the Country Mouse

escaped

feast

grand

silverware

The Native Americans

baskets
before
cities
many
Native Americans

The Pilgrims
England
harvest
king
Pilgrims
ship
Thanksgiving

Goldilocks
finally
forest
startled
tiny

The Gingerbread Man

away
clever
mixture
tasty

animals
beak
furry
sharp
sniff
trunk
underground
pesky
sticky
leap
capture
burrows
carnivores
herbivores
lap
nibble
camouflage
oily
pants
shell
twig
belong
cave
flippers
grazes
herd
foal
litter
pouch
chrysalis
hatch
tadpole
fins
gills
insects
peck
cuddle
fawn
mammals
smooth

The Shoemaker and the Elves
evening
morning
perfectly
poor
worried

Grammar

Appropriate use of pronouns

Speaking in complete sentences

Using uppercase letters to begin your first name.

Introduce punctation (period)

• Skills continued and reviewed from previous months

Using uppercase letters in first and last names

Science

The Five Senses

 In the All About Me domain, Deepening Understanding instruction is given for the following words:

humans

inside

touch

grow

shelter

Scientific Thinking

Physical Properties

 The Lifecycle of a Pumpkin

Scientific Thinking

Physical Properties

Weather

Seasons

Scientific Thinking

Weather

Seasons

Scientific Thinking

Animals

Habitats

Living Things

Social Studies

Classroom Community

• rules and responsibilities
• classroom jobs

Geography

Civics, citizenship and government

School Community

• roles, rules and responsibilities

Geography

Civics, citizenship and government

Native Americans
Pilgrims

Geography

Career Development

Family and Holiday Traditions

Geography

Career Development

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Economics

Mathematics

Module 1 (45 days)

Numbers to 5

• Students will be able to is analyze, sort, classify, and count up to 5 with meaning.

Module 1 (45 days)

Numbers to 5

• Students will be able to analyze, sort, classify, and count up to 5 with meaning.

Module 2 (15 days) 

Two Dimensional and Three Dimensional Shapes

Module 3 (50 days)

Counting to Answer Questions of How Many

• Students will build on prior knowledge on extending "How Many" questions up to 10. The key here is to build from 5, using their fingers to support this perspective.

6 is 5 and 1

7 is 5 and 2

8 is 5 and 3, etc.

Counting to Answer Questions of How Many continued

Mentor Texts

• “I Am Special”
• Shades of People by Shelley Rotner and Sheila M. Kelly
• “Body Parts”
• My Five Senses by Aliki
• “We Use Our Senses to Learn”
• “I Am Growing and Changing”
• “Three Basic Needs”
• My Amazing Body by Pat Thomas

Picture Talks
• “I Am Special”
• “Body Parts”
• “We Use Our Senses to Learn”
• “I Am Growing and Changing”
• “Three Basic Needs”

Nursery Rhymes
• “Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes”
• “Open, Shut Them”
• “Do Your Ears Hang Low?”
• “Where is Thumbkin?”
• “Pat-a-Cake”

• “All Kinds of Families”
• Families by Ann Morris
• Houses and Homes by Ann Morris
• “Families Work and Play Together”
• Full, Full, Full of Love by Trish Cooke
• “Family Celebrations and Traditions”
• Career Day by Anne Rockwell

Nursery Rhymes and Songs:

• “Rain, Rain Go Away” (Nursery Rhyme Poster 41)
• “Five Little Monkeys” (Nursery Rhyme Poster 14)
• “Pease Porridge” (Nursery Rhyme Poster 36)
• “Teddy Bear” (Nursery Rhyme Poster 44)
• “A Tisket, A Tasket” (Nursery Rhyme Poster 1)

• “The Native Americans”
• “The Pilgrims”

• The Three Little Pigs
• Goldilocks and the Three Bears
• The Gingerbread Man
• The Little Red Hen
• How Turtle Cracked His Shell
• Why Flies Buzz
• The Lion and the Mouse
• The City Mouse and the Country Mouse
• The Shoemaker and the Elves
• Thumbelina

• “Humans are Animals”
• What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? by Steven Jenkins and Robin Page
• “Animals Have Three Basic Needs”
• “Animals Protect Themselves”
• Is Your Mama a Llama? By Deborah Guarino
• See Me Grow by Penelope Arlon and Tory Gordon-Harris
• “Groups of Animals: Birds, Fish, and Insects”
• “Groups of Animals: Mammals”

Nursery Rhymes and Songs
• “An Old Person of Ware”
• “Here is the Beehive”
• “Kookaburra”
• “Eensy Weensy Spider”
• “Hickety, Pickety, My Black Hen”