KINDER 1 March - April 2015-2016 LANGUAGE ARTS Listening and Speaking: The students will: Continue constructing short affirmative and negative sentences. Describe objects’ color, shape, size and use. Reinforce seen colors and concepts. Learn and practice vocabulary of vowels and consonants. Identify and produce sounds of vowels and consonants Rr, Ss, Tt. Make simple rhymes with help. Name in order sequences of words and identify those that were problematic. Initial Reading The students will: Continue creating own stories relating them to drawings to compare with their classmates. Continue rhyming simple words. Paraphrase stories read by the teacher using their own words. Start to identify topic of stories after listening to them. Identify and match similar letters (consonants and vowels). Understand and paraphrase the sequence of events including in a short story read by the teacher using drawings. Identify and name: characters, place and title of stories heard in the classroom. Initial Writing The students will: Identify, match and trace vowels and consonants Rr, Ss, Tt. Continue cutting and tracing different kinds of lines. Practice writing and cutting skills. Repeat visual patterns. Continue connecting dots to complete figures. Be able to remember and trace letters that were previously shown. Handle tiny balls and small objects. Draw lines, shapes and letters using different materials. Find, cut, place and paste selected materials on a worksheet. MATHEMATICS The students will: Identify, count and match numbers from 0-18. Reinforce seen concepts (up-down, over-under, next to-between, smallsmallest, below, far, equal-same, big-small, more than, bigger than) Classify based on different characteristics. Use seen geometric shapes ( , , , , , ) to create patterns. Be able to develop simple patterns of numbers and shapes. Identify the concepts bigger than, biggest. SCIENCE The students will: Learn about the parts of the plants and how to take care of them. Be able to identify and name different animals: zoo, farm, and pets. Talk about the different environments where they develop theirselves: school, house, family and how to take care of it. SOCIAL STUDIES The students will: Recognize, name and classify the different means of transportation: water, land and air. Be able to see and compare animals as means of transportation. Describe why means of transportation are important to our community. Learn about March Holidays (Mexican Oil Expropriation (18), Benito Juarez’s Birth (21), 1st day of spring (21st)) and April holidays (Children’s day (30th)). ESPAÑOL Escucha y Expresión Oral Los estudiantes: Conocerán y expresarán palabras que inician con consonantes Rr, Ss, Tt. Utilizarán las palabras del vocabulario para expresar oraciones afirmativas y negativas. Identificarán las palabras problemáticas en su uso. Describirán objetos considerando forma, tamaño, color y función. Lectura Inicial Los estudiantes: Asociarán nombre y sonido de las consonantes Rr, Ss, Tt con palabras que inician con dichas letras. Utilizarán una lista de palabras para crear historias. Reforzarán el concepto de palabras que riman. Identificarán aplaudiendo cada vez que escuchen el sonido de la letra clave en una serie de palabras. Expresarán con sus propias palabras distintas historias utilizando dibujos para recordar la secuencia. Elaborarán garabatos para inventar su propia historia y leerla en voz alta. Interpretarán dibujos elaborados por sus compañeros. Escritura Inicial Los estudiantes: Conocerán el trazo de las consonantes que inician con Rr, Ss, Tt e identificarán vocabulario de estas letras. Trazarán formas, líneas y garabatos con diferentes materiales. Reforzarán el trazo de su nombre. Manipularán objetos de diferentes tamaños. Recortarán papel en líneas rectas. Identificarán las letras que se les solicite para empezar a escribirlas. COMPUTER The students will: Learn about: Paint Program- Shapes. Work with: GCompris – Go to discovery Activities, complete the puzzle. KidPix - Colors and shapes Millie’s Math house – What’s my number? Kidpix – Letter book project / Food project. ART The students will: Express their opinion about the role and development of the visual arts in the past and present cultures throughout the world. Continue applying artistic processes, skills, materials and tools to communicate meaning and ideas. Apply what they have learned in the visual arts across subject areas. Communicate and express through original works of art. Frida Kahlo art. MUSIC The students will: Continue listening and describing music and other aural information, using the terminology of music. DANCE The students will: Respond spontaneously to different types of music and rhythms. Understand partnering as an element of dance. Identify different kinds and types of dances throughout the world. Understand dance provides ways to explore the universality and particularity of human cultures. Create accompanying movements when listening to a song. Identify music and movement activities (parades, drill teams, marching bands). Understand the importance of music when someone is dancing Act out nursery rhymes or traditional songs. GYM & SPORTS The students will: Develop fine and gross motor control on different contexts.