ELA/SS Kindergarten Trimester III
Curriculum Overview
This term, our Kindergarten students will learn about daily weather conditions of their own locality and will describe it using vocabulary (hot, warm, cool, cold, sunny, cloudy, windy, rainy,) orally and written in complete sentences. They will also identify ways in which weather affects daily routines, such as dress, activities, etc. In addition, students will read non fictions leveled books in guided reading to develop their reading skills. Moreover, through different experiments, kindergarteners will understand that pulls and pushes have different strengths and directions.
Math Kindergarten
Trimester III
Curriculum Overview
Children begin to practice their counting abilities, knowledge of the value of numbers, and work with integrated numbers to reason about and solve addition and subtraction expressions and equations. Decomposition and composition are taught simultaneously using the number bond model so that students begin to understand the relationship between parts and wholes. Up to this point in Kinder, students have worked intensively within 10 and have often counted to 30 using fluency practice. This work sets the stage for this module where students clarify the meaning of the 10 ones and some ones within a teen number and extend that understanding to count to 100. Students have used geometry as a context for exploring numerals as well as comparing attributes and quantities. To wrap up the year, students further develop their spatial reasoning skills and begin laying the groundwork for an understanding of area through composition of geometric figures.
Spanish Kindergarten Trimester III
Curriculum Overview
El estudiante afianzará las estrategias de lectura que ha aprendido a lo largo del trimestre pasado: hace predicciones, reconoce título, autor e ilustrador, es capaz de realizar un paseo sobre las imágenes de los libros, y hacer conexiones entre fonemas y grafema al menos entre dos sílabas. Además trabajará conexiones de texto a uno mismo y de texto a texto. Este trimestre también se enfocará en desarrollar el pensamiento crítico a nivel del estudiante para mejorar la capacidad de análisis. Conocerá, leerá textos informativos y aprenderá a extraer datos informativos de un tema y anotarlos para elaborar un libro sobre su animal favorito a nivel de kinder.
Art Kindergarten
Trimester III
Curriculum Overview
Students in K5, will be introduced to the basic principles of art, like balance and movement. Will demonstrate beginning skills in the use of tools and processes, such as the use of scissors , glue and paper in creating a 3D construction, such as a real or imaginary animal.
Students will be able to discuss their own works of art and give reasons why they like a particular work of art they made ,using appropriate art vocabulary.
Music Kindergarten
Trimester III
Curriculum Overview
Students will read the words “high”or “low” in front of beat icons and chant the rhyme following high and low. Students will internalize high and low pitches through kinesthetic activities, while they practice fast and slow. Students will be able to do aural analysis of melodies containing high and low pitches. Students will create a visual representation of high and slow in a melody.
Students will internalize rhythm through kinesthetic activities such as games and movement. also , students will do aural analysis of sounds on a beat. Students will create a visual representation of the rhythm of a melody. Teacher presents the concept of rhythm and the spelling of the word rhythm.
P.E. Kindergarten
Trimester III
Curriculum Overview
In this trimester students develop games and skill exercises based on the development of basic movement, cognitive and social skills like; running, balancing, jumping, throwing, catching, shooting, playing tag games, kicking and participating in traditional games.
Students receive introduction to swimming; learn basic skills in swimming; adaptation to the aquatic environment, they overcome the fear of water, learn floating, kicking and introduce the face in the water.
Students demonstrate good sportsmanship, discipline, self- control, sharing and kindness. Through this activities students develop and reinforce several personal and social skills associated with responsible behavior, safety ,cooperation, interpersonal behavior receiving and providing feedback praising and accepting other.