Skills

(Fundations, Spelling)

blending sounds

Identifying letter/sound relationships

Identifying letter/sound relationships

word play-high frequency words (learning center games)

word play-high frequency words (learning centers)

Literacy Learning

(Domains/Modules)

Domain 3 Animals continued

Begin Domain 4 Plants

Classic Tales Domain

Thumbelina

Little Red Hen

 Domain 4 Plants continued

Classic Tales Domain

How Turtles Got Thier Shells

]Why Flies Buzz

Begin Domain 5 Habitats

Classic Tales Domain

The Three Little Pigs

Domain 5  Habitats continued

Classic Tales Domain

The Three Horrid Pigs

Writing

Copy simple words

Label pictures (inventive spelling)

Identify and record  initial letter sounds to form words

Identify and record ending letter sounds to form words

With prompting and support participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g. explore a number of books by a favorite author and express opinions about them)

With prompting and support create a list poem (Tuckahoe Literary Magazine)

Identify and record middle letter sounds to form words

Identify and record middle leter sounds to form words

Begin to write high frequency words with prompting and support

Vocabulary

ax

beside

borrowed

fireplace

honest

ruined

terrible

different

laws

office

president

voted

dream

peaceful

solve

talent

The Little Red Hen
happily
harvested
lazy
relax
wonderful

bilingual

ceremony

hard

helpful

judge

obey

robe

adventurous

astronaut

decided

launch

outer space

space shuttle

scientist

Domain 4 Plants- Vocabulary:
buds
edible
harvested
vegetables
nourish
nutrients
roots
soil
stem
guaranteed
mammoth
sow
weeds
deeper
emerges
larger
seedling
thick
trunk
collect
garden
healthy
plant
soak
bloom
nectar
petals
raw
sip
crowded
fruit
pit
suitcase
travel
important
oxygen
root vegetables
shade

Thumbelina
beautiful
crown
floated
underground

How Turtles Got their Shells
flying south
summer
tightly
winter
wonder       

Domain 4 Plants- Vocabulary continued

Why Flies Buzz

advice

coconut

politely

punishment

trampled

woodland

bank

damp

fragile

hike

shady

tiptoe

autumn

boulder

clearing

clump

gnawed

dive

lake

still

croaking

crouching

murky

reeds

shallow

burrow

enormous

tidal pool

wading

waves

binoculars

dart

peer

prickly

sandy

scurry

badger

basks

blazes

chases

hisses

coop

hay

flow

pasture

rooting

shearing

wool

The Three Little Pigs

afternoon

cart

chimney

continued

lane

hurried

Domain 5

Habitats vocabulary continued

The Three Horrid Little Pigs

horrid

pesky

rude

sturdy

Grammar

+ use frequently occurring nouns and verbs (orally)

+ with guidance and support form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (dog, dogs, wish, wishes)

+ understand and use question words (interrogatives)

• who, what, when, where, why, and how

+ in speech use the most frequently occurring prepositions (to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with)

+ with guidance and support attempt to spell simple words, phonetically, drawing on knowledge of letter sound relationships

+ use knowledge of language and how language functions in different contexts

+ identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately

+ demonstrate and understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms)

+ identify real life connections between words and their use

Science

Sorting by different attributes (living/non-living, rough/smooth)

Living things

Earth and Space

Classroom and Tuckahoe Community Gardens

Earth and Space

Classroom and Tuckahoe Community Gardens

Scientific Thinking

Physical Properties

Habitats

Scientific Thinking

Physical Properties

Social Studies

Important people in American history:

George Washington

Abe Lincoln

Barack Obama

Economics

Important people in American History:

Sally Ride

Sonia Sotomayor

Geography

Geography

Citizenship (our flag, veterans, Memorial Day)

History

History

Mathematics

Module 3:(30days)

Counting to answer questions of how many

Module 4: (35 days)

Comparison of length, weight, and capacity

Module 4: (35 days) 

Comparison of length, weight, and capacity

Module 5: (35 days)

Numerals to 5

Module 5:(35 days)

Addition and subtraction stories

Counting to 20

Module 5:(35 days)

Addition and subtraction stories

Counting to 20

Mentor Texts

The read-alouds for Important People in American History domain include:

Barack Obama

Abe Lincoln

The read-alouds for Important People in American History include:

Sally Ride

Sonia Sotomayor

The read-alouds for Plants domain include:
• “Plants Are All Around Us”
• “Plants Have Different Parts”
• Sunfl ower House by Eve Bunting and illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt
• “Plants Grow”
• “Plants Have Basic Needs”
• Flowers by Vijaya Khisty Bodach
• A Fruit Is a Suitcase for Seeds by Jean Richards and illustrated by
Anca Hariton
• “Plants Are Important to Humans and Animals”

Nursery Rhymes and Songs:

The nursery rhymes and songs included in the Plants domain include:
• “Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush”
• “Oats, Peas, Beans, and Barley Grow”
• “One Potato, Two Potato”
• “Ring Around The Rosey”
• “Peter Piper”
• “Tippety, Tippety”

The read alouds for the Habitats Domain include:

“Woodland”

• In the Woods: Who’s Been Here? by Lindsay Barrett George

• Life in a Pond by Carol K. Lindeen

• “Pond”

• “Ocean”

• “Desert”

• Here is the Southwestern Desert by Madeleine Dunphy

• “Farm”

Nursery rhymes for Habitats Domain include:

• “Bat, Bat”

• “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”

• “Once I Saw a Little Bird”

• “At the Seaside”

• “To Market, To Market”

• “Old MacDonald”