2025-2026

Grade Level 

Kindergarten

Content Area

Math, Science, & ELA

Standards: 

MA19.K.4 - Connect counting to cardinality using a variety of concrete objects.

MA19.K.5 - Count to answer "how many?" questions.

MA19.K.15 - Classify objects into given categories of 10 or fewer; count the number of objects in each category and sort the categories by count.

Science:

K.3 Distinguish between living and nonliving things and verify what living things need to survive.

ELA:

K.CO.8d Identify the beginning and end of a sentence by locating the capital letter and end punctuation.

K.C.23 With prompting and support, manipulate words and/or phrases to create simple sentences, including declarative and interrogative, to help build syntactic awareness and comprehension at the sentence level.

K.W.33 Express ideas orally and connect these ideas through drawing and emergent writing.

K.W.34 Print legibly, using proper pencil grip

1. Print upper and lower case letters using proper approach strokes, letter formation, and line placement.

     c.  With prompting and support, use lower case letters in majority of written work, using capital 

letters only when appropriate.   

Students spent the month of September on an apple thematic unit.  We read stories and watched videos to learn apple facts.  We made a Can/Have/Are anchor chart with our apple facts. We learned about the parts of an apple and the apple life cycle.  We explored apples using our 5 senses.  We tasted 3 different apples: Granny Smith (green), Red Delicious, and Golden Delicious then graphed our favorite.  We tasted different things made from apples: apple cider vs. apple juice, dried apples, Apple Jacks, as well as the most popular apple "Gala".  We used the scientific method to answer the question "Will an apple sink or float?" and tested each of our apples we brought in.  We made pictures of ourselves balancing a number of apples we chose on our heads and wrote about it.  Lastly, we finished with writing our first paragraph "What we know about Apples". We are apple experts!