Kindergarten Nine Week Plans
Second Grading Period
The kindergarten students will be immersed in a language-rich environment
to develop oral language skills in all areas of instruction. The second nine weeks
we will focus on the following units:
 Native Americans/Pilgrims/Thanksgiving
 Five Senses
 Fairy Tales
 Winter
 Arctic Animals
 Magnets
 The alphabet letters, poems, word work, and kindergarten sight
words
 2nd quarter sight words (I, can, go, to, the, see, like)
We will teach these units utilizing all areas of instruction:
ENGLISH:
Students will listen to and read books on these units.
Students will recognize rhyming words.
Students will use words to describe location, size, color, and
shape.
Students will ask about words not understood.
Students will follow one-step and two-step directions.
Students will express ideas and needs in complete sentences.
Students will listen and speak in informal conversation with
peers and adults.
Students will follow words from left to right and from top to
bottom on a printed page.
Student will identify and name the letters of the alphabet.
Students will match consonant sounds to appropriate letters.
Students will identify beginning consonant sounds in singlesyllable words.
Students will identify what an author does and what an
illustrator does.
Students will print the letters of the alphabet independently.
Students will print his/her given first and last name.
Students will explore the uses of available technology for
reading and writing.
SOL #’s:
K.1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12
MATH:
Students will identify, describe, and extend a repeating
pattern in common objects, sounds, and movement.
Students will continue to count the days we are in school.
Students will learn place value by counting the days in
school.
Students will continue to learn to count by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, and
10’s.
Students will consistently apply ordinal position to 10th place.
Students will learn to count aloud to 50.
Students will recognize numerals to 10.
Students will count backwards from 10.
Students will identify number sets as more, fewer, or the
same.
Students will gather data relating to familiar experiences by
counting and tallying.
Students will match numeral to quantity up to 10.
Students will use manipulatives.
Students will write their numbers to 10.
SOL #’s:
K.9, 7, 4c, 16, 1, 2, 4b, 15
SCIENCE: Students will investigate and understand that humans
have senses including, sight, smell, hearing, touch, and
taste.
Students will learn about the winter season and what animals
do during the winter.
Students will investigate and understand magnets.
SOL #’s:
K.1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9
HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES:
Students will recognize that history describes events and
people: Pocahontas, Thanksgiving, Winter Holidays, and
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Students will learn about Native Americans and Pilgrims.
SOL #’s: K.1, 2, 3, 4, 5
MOTOR SKILL DEVELOPMENT:
Students will continue to practice small motor muscle control
by tying, zipping, and buttoning.
Revised 11/10