PRE-PRIMARY (3K) March - April 2015-2016 LANGUAGE ARTS Listening and speaking: The students will: Practice spelling of vocabulary words. Reinforce use of “If-then”. Be able to elaborate self-corrections during their expressions. Apply future in affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences to describe images. Use seen possessives pronouns, relation words in sentences, superlatives and comparison adjectives when speaking. Decide what they like or dislike from the listened information. Identify illogical ideas, incomplete items and redundancies of what they heard. Summarize two stories. Compare and contrast their basic features. Answer questions Where? How? Reading Skills The students will: Identify and apply consonants Rr, Ss, Tt and Vv to specific words. Practice rhymes. Work with graphic organizers to summarize stories. Practice reading of sentences and short stories. Identify high frequency words and their use. Identify common irregular verbs present and past tenses. Understand and remember the main idea of a story. Remember relationships between characters, events and experiences. Summarize, compare and contrast two stories. Express generalization in future tense. Identify the simple present tense. Answer question “what would happen if?” personal Writing Skills The students will: Identify, match and write consonants Rr, Ss, Tt and Vv. Identify, match and write (dictation) vocabulary words with consonants Rr, Ss, Tt and Vv. Write their complete name. Have dictation of known words and small sentences. Write short sentences using given words. MATHEMATICS The students will: Practice counting in ascendant and descendant order. Count and match numbers from 0-100 (review). Reinforce writing numbers from 0-20 Work with written and mental additions and subtractions. Reinforce volume (solid shapes). Reinforce counting by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s. Practice positional value (units and tens). Learn what weight is. Reinforce length concept. Start to work with two-digit additions. Use seen geometric shapes to make different forms and objects. Identify and build solid figures (cylinder, sphere and cone). Make fractions (½, ⅓, ¼). Use ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th). SCIENCE The students will: Environment, animals as living beings. Animals that live on land and water. Importance of the elements, water, air and earth. Solar system. SOCIAL STUDIES The students will: Geographic environment. ESPAÑOL Escucha y Expresión Oral Los estudiantes: Reforzarán absurdos y redundancias de lo que han escuchado. Reforzarán el expresar generalizaciones de formas posesivas, y de tiempo presente, pasado y futuro. Reforzarán sustituir oraciones afirmativas y negativas a oraciones interrogativas. Habilidades de Lectura Los estudiantes: Identificarán y aplicarán las consonantes Ch, Ll, Y, K y X específicas. Leerán palabras del vocabulario. Reforzarán actividades en donde la rima es utilizada. Reforzarán el practicar lecturas cortas. en palabras Habilidades de Escritura Los estudiantes: Identificarán, relacionarán y escribirán las consonante Ch, Ll, Y, K y X en palabras específicas. Identificarán, relacionarán y escribirán palabras de vocabulario para las consonantes Ch, Ll, Y, K y X en palabras específicas. Tomarán dictado del vocabulario aprendido. COMPUTER The students will: Work with: Jumpstart Kindergarten–Math (adding and subtracting). Kidpix – Tux Paint-Coloring & Coloring (adding graphics to Kid Pix) / Class Calendar. Trudy’s time and place house - Jellybean hunt / Calendar clock. Sammy’s science house - Weather machine / Workshop. Dr. Seuss – Memory cards. ART The students will: Continue assessing and deriving meaning from works of art, including their own, according to the principles of design, and aesthetic qualities. Communicate and express through original works of art applying artistic processes, skills, materials and tools to share meaning. MUSIC The students will: Continue noticing cultural diversity as it relates to music, musicians, and composers. Read, notate, listen to and analyze music. Listen and describe music and other aural information, using the terminology of music. DANCE The students will: Build the range and capacity to move in a variety of ways. Perform basic locomotor skills. Name and perform folk/traditional dances from Mexico and two other countries. Look at and know dances from a variety of times and places. Be able to identify differences between two dances. Explain basic features that distinguish one kind of dance from another. Respond to a variety of stimuli with original movement. Create movements that reflect a variety of personal experiences. GYM & SPORTS The students will: Develop fine and gross motor control on different contexts.