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Reading
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Writing
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Math
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Science
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Social Studies
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September
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Unit 1:
In this first unit, readers will develop a strong background in emergent literacy skills through interactive and shared reading experiences.
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Unit 1:
In this first unit, writers will prepare to be able to put their ideas down on paper through storytelling.
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Unit 1: Math in Our World
In this unit, students will recognize numbers and quantities in their world. They will also be introduced to the math tools and routines that they will use throughout the year.
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Unit 1: Waiting for Weather
Students will be observing weather conditions (sun, wind, precipitation, temperature) in order to notice patterns over time. They will explore the different elements to better understand how weather impacts their daily activities.
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Unit 1: Myself as a Citizen (Civics)
Students will learn about the different communities in which they live. They will explore their roles as members of their family, classroom, school, town/city, state, country, and world. They will learn about their role as a citizen and rules that help organize different communities.
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October
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Unit 2:
Readers will learn how to share their ideas and listen to others’ ideas so that they can grow as readers.
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Unit 2:
Writers will learn ways to record their stories in order to share with others with a focus on drawing.
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Unit 2: Numbers 1-10
Students will answer “how many” questions, count out, and compare groups within 10. Students will also write a number to represent how many.
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November
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Unit 3:
Readers will learn to become more independent in their reading and writing.
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Unit 3:
Writers will learn how to improve their drawings to express their thoughts and ideas more effectively.
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Unit 2: Mapping my World (Geography)
Students will learn about maps, their general features, and their different purposes. They will create simple maps of their classroom, bedroom, or playground as well as identify their school and hometown on a map of Connecticut.
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December
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Unit 4:
Readers will show mastery of skills such as decoding words and retelling stories to become a better reader.
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Unit 4:
Writers will begin to add words to their picture stories by writing simple sentences.
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Unit 3: Flat Shapes All Around Us
Students will identify, describe, analyze, compare and compose two-dimensional shapes.
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January
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We are Readers
In this important unit, Readers will develop an identity as a reader. By the end of the unit, they should be saying, "Yes, I AM a reader!"
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Launching the Writing Workshop
The excitement students have for becoming writers will be channeled into “All About Books” and stories.
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Unit 4: Subtract within 10
Students will relate counting to addition and solve addition and subtraction story problems within 10
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Unit 2: Mystery Class Pet
Students will be exploring the needs of different living things (plants vs. animals) and how to care for living things. They will also investigate how living things change and impact the environment.
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February
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Readers Read, Think and Talk
Readers will focus on emergent storybooks to use pictures effectively, to increase their attention to the words on the page, and to have beginner conversations about what was read.
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Writing For Readers
This unit teaches students strategies for making clearer, richer stories and helps them strengthen the conventions and mechanics of their writing.
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Unit 3: Myself and People Around Me (History)
Students will learn about their own history and the “history” of their classroom community as they move through the school year. They will explore concepts such as “then and now” and “change over time” in the context of their lives and their families. They will learn about how history is celebrated by different events in each of our lives at a personal and community level.
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Unit 5: Compose and Decompose Numbers to 10
Students will compose and decompose numbers within 10.
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March
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Unit 6: Numbers within 20
Students will answer “how many” questions and count out groups within 20. They will investigate the numbers 11 to 19 and understand that they are composed of ten ones and some more ones (i.e., 14 is ten ones and 4 more ones). They will write numbers within 20.
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April
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Unit 3: Push, Pull, Play!
Students will be learning about the direction of motion related to pushes and pulls, that these forces can have different strengths, and that we can change the motion of an object by adding or changing force. Students also come to realize that certain weather conditions exhibit force and can impact the way that we play.
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Unit 4: Needs and Wants in my Life (Economics)
Students will look at different resources in their community such as businesses and transportation. They will begin to learn about simple economics by focusing on the difference between a need and a want as well as the ideas of saving and borrowing.
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Learning about Ourselves: Reading for Information
Readers will expand their focus from just learning to read to include reading to learn.
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All About Books
Students will write lots of information books about lots of different topics, using a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose their books.
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Unit 7: Solid Shapes All Around Us
Students will identify, describe, analyze, compare, and compose two- and three-dimensional shapes. Counting, addition, and subtraction are revisited in geometric contexts.
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May
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Unit 8: Putting It All Together
Students will consolidate and solidify their understanding of the major skills of Kindergarten. They will also continue to work towards fluency of addition and subtraction within 5.
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June
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