PRE-PRIMARY (3K) March-April 2014-2015 LANGUAGE ARTS Listening and speaking: The students will: Practice spelling of vocabulary words. Reinforce use of “If-then”. Apply future in affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences to describe images. Decide what they like or dislike from the listened information. Reading Skills The students will: Identify and apply consonants Rr, Ss, Tt and Vv to specific words. Practice reading of sentences and short stories. Remember relationships between characters, events and experiences. Summarize, compare and contrast two stories. 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 Have dictation of known words and small sentences. MATHEMATICS The students will: Count and match numbers from 0-100 (review). Work with written and mental additions and subtractions. Learn what weight is. Start to work with two-digit additions. 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: Learn how animals and plants grow and have different habitats. Recognize the function and importance of water, air and soil for life on planet Earth. Learn about a balanced menu, using “My Plate” and classify food. SOCIAL STUDIES The students will: Identify visual and audio means of communication (telephone, radio, movies, TV, and internet). Continue checking maps and how to use compass rose. Learn about March (Mexican Oil Expropriation (18), Benito Juarez’s Birth (21), 1st day of spring (21st)) and April holidays (Children’s day (30th)). SOCIO-EMOTIONAL SKILLS: The students will: Learn the skills to identify and manage anger. Identify the importance of being honest. Learn to decide what to do to solve problems. ESPAÑOL Escucha y Expresión Oral Los estudiantes: Usarán y sustituirán oraciones afirmativas, negativas e interrogativas combinadas para describir eventos en tiempo presente, pasado y futuro. Predecirán resultados de historias y oraciones incompletas. Habilidades de Lectura Los estudiantes: Identificarán y aplicarán las consonantes Ch, Ll, Y, K y X en palabras específicas. Practicarán la lectura de cuentos cortos. Identificarán y mencionarán lo importante de lo trivial de distintas historias escuchadas. Habilidades de Escritura Los estudiantes: Identificarán, relacionarán y escribirán las consonantes 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. Dictado de palabras de las consonantes y vocabulario visto. 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.