Teacher: Janice Perrion
 Year:      2005-2006 
 Course:  PreSchool 

 

Preschool Readiness

 

 

 Essential Questions 

 Content 

 Skills 

 Assessments 

 Lessons 

 Standards 

Are you ready for Preschool?

 

Initial Sound Fluency

Letter Naming Fluency

Phoneme Segmentation Fluency

 

Phonological awareness

Alphabetic understanding

automaticity

fluency

 

Initial Sound Fluency
8/23/2005

Letter Naming Fluency
8/23/2005

Phoneme Segmentation Fluency
8/23/2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Math Unit 1: Readiness

 

 

 Essential Questions 

 Content 

 Skills 

 Assessments 

 Lessons 

 Standards 

How do we get ready to learn math?

 

Size

Measurement - Length

Math Readiness

Colors

Shapes

Graphs

 

Use Teddy Bear counters

Match colors

Sort colors

Recognize circles

Create circles

Identify short and long

Create a graph

Identify big and little

Identify big, middle, and little

Graph big, middle, and little objects

 

Math Readiness
9/21/2005

Math Readiness - 02
9/26/2005

 

L1 Introducing and Exploring Teddy Bear Counters -I-
9/5/2005

L2 Matching Colors -I-
9/7/2005

L3 Sorting by Color -D-
9/7/2005

L4 Introducing the Circle -I-
9/12/2005

L5 Creating Circles -D-
9/12/2005

L6 Introducing Short and Long -I-
9/14/2005

L7 Creating a Graph -I-
9/19/2005

L8 Introducing Big and Little -I-
9/21/2005

L9 Exploring Big and Little -D-
9/21/2005

L10 Introducing Big, Middle, and Little -I-
9/26/2005

L11 Identifying Big, Middle, and Little -D-
9/26/2005

L12 Graphing Big Middle and Little -R-
9/26/2005

 

1.1 ~ Demonstrates willingness to try new experiences and activities.

 

1.4 ~ Demonstrates eagerness to find out more about other people and to discover new things in the environment.

 

2.5 ~ Sustains attention and focuses on activities.

 

3.6 ~ Participates in group routines, demonstrating self-control, and following rules.

 

4.1 ~ Explores and experiments with a wide variety of materials and activities.

 

 

 

Reading Unit 1: I Am Special

 

 

 Essential Questions 

 Content 

 Skills 

 Assessments 

 Lessons 

 Standards 

What makes each of us special?

 

Rhythm & Rhyme

Voice

Listening for sounds

Book and Print Awareness

Building and Using Language

 

Enjoy listening to a finger play and a song

Listen with attention

Sing a song with others

With the teacher as the narrator, take on the role of nursery rhyme characters

Recognize how text is read on a page

Identify and describe environmental sounds as soft or loud

When given a book upside down, turn it right side up

Sing a song

Focus hearing on the sounds of things in their environment

Identify sounds in their environment such as animal sounds

Associate the spoken word with the written word

Play at reading, pretending to read to themselves and others

Use left-to-right directionality

 

Reading Readiness
9/21/2005

Reading Readiness - 01
9/27/2005

 

I Am Me -I-
9/30/2005

Here Are My Hands -D-
9/30/2005

All About You -D-
9/30/2005

Growing -D-
9/30/2005

The House on the Hill -D-
9/30/2005

Everybody Says -D-
9/30/2005

I Like Me -R-
9/30/2005

 

1.1 ~ Demonstrates willingness to try new experiences and activities.

 

1.3 ~ Demonstrates book-handling skills, such as holding a book right side up and turning pages from front to back.

 

1.7 ~ Demonstrates knowledge that a symbol can represent something else (e.g. a word can stand for an object, a name for a person, a picture for the real object.)

 

2.5 ~ Sustains attention and focuses on activities.

 

3.1 ~ Seeks help when needed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Math Unit 2: Readiness Cont.

 

 

 Essential Questions 

 Content 

 Skills 

 Assessments 

 Lessons 

 Standards 

 

 

Size

Seasons

Patterns

Shapes

Matching

Positions

Sorting

Opposites

 

Name signs of fall

Name pattern objects

Itentify narrow and wide

Identify squares

Create squares

Match objects

Identify top, middle, and bottom

Sort objects

Create patterns

Itentify inside and outside

 

Math Readiness - 01
10/30/2005

 

L13 Introducing Fall -I-
10/31/2005

L14 Inrtoducing Patterns -I-
10/31/2005

L15 Patterning Using Fall Leaves -D-
10/31/2005

L16 Introducing Narrow and Wide -I-
10/31/2005

L17 Introducing the Square -I-
10/31/2005

L18 Creating Squares -D-
10/31/2005

L19 One-to-One Correspondence -I-
10/31/2005

L20 Introducing Top, Middle, and Bottom -I-
10/31/2005

L21 Exploring Top, Middle, and Bottom -D-
10/31/2005

L22 Sorting by One Attribute -I-
10/31/2005

L23 Patterning Using Circles and Squares -D-
10/31/2005

L24 Introducing Inside and Outside -I-
10/31/2005

 

1.1 ~ Demonstrates willingness to try new experiences and activities.

 

1.2 ~ Asks questions to find answers and wonders why.

 

1.3 ~ Chooses to participate in a wide variety of experiences.

 

1.4 ~ Demonstrates eagerness to find out more about other people and to discover new things in the environment.

 

2.4 ~ Demonstrates independence and self-direction when making choices.

 

3.1 ~ Seeks help when needed.

 

3.2 ~ Attempts several different strategies when encountering difficulty during daily routines or in the use of materials

 

 

 

Reading Unit 2: Families Everywhere

 

 

 Essential Questions 

 Content 

 Skills 

 Assessments 

 Lessons 

 Standards 

Why are families important?

 

Listening for sounds

Rhythm & Rhyme

Alphabetic Knowledge

Book & Print Awareness

Counting words

Building and Using Language

Capital/Small Letters

Sentence Length

Listening for words

 

Ask appripriate questions about stories

Tell parts of stories they liked

Identify sounds in their environment

Demonstrate knowledge of the concept of "letter"

Identify and name the letter that begins their name

Demonstrate knowledge of the concept of "beginning"

Hear specific words in sentences

Recognize a few words

Make judgements about what they hear, telling parts of stories they liked or disliked

Use new vocabulary

ncrease listening attention span

 

 

 

Families 
10/31/2005

Daisy and the Egg 
10/31/2005

I'll Always Be Your Friend 
10/31/2005

Knock, Knock 
10/31/2005

Goldilocks and the Three Bears 
10/31/2005

What Is a Family 
10/31/2005

Now One Foot, now the Other 
10/31/2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Math Unit 3: Families

 

 

 Essential Questions 

 Content 

 Skills 

 Assessments 

 Lessons 

 Standards 

 

 

Family

Sets

Shapes

Comparing

Matching

Numbers

Sorting

Patterns

Graphs

 

Identify family members

Make sets of objects

Identify a triangle

Create triangles

Compare objects

Match objects

Identify the number one

Sort objects by type

Create patterns

Graph objects

 

Self-Awareness
11/1/2005

 

L25 Introducing Family Members 
11/30/2005

L26 Exploring Families 
11/30/2005

L27 Introducing sets 
11/30/2005

L28 Introducing the Triangle 
11/30/2005

L29 Exploring Triangles 
11/30/2005

L30 Comparing and Matching 
11/30/2005

L31 Introducing the Number One 
11/30/2005

L32 Exploring the Number One 
11/30/2005

L33 Sorting by Type 
11/30/2005

L34 Sorting by Type (continued) 
11/30/2005

L35 Patterning Using Nuts 
11/30/2005

L36 Graphing Nuts 
11/30/2005

 

 

 

 

Reading Unit 3: All Kinds of Friends

 

 

 Essential Questions 

 Content 

 Skills 

 Assessments 

 Lessons 

 Standards 

What is friendship?

 

Book and Print Awareness

Exploring Vocabulary/Oral Language

Building and Using Language

Story Making

Phonological and Phonemic Awareness: Word Clapping, Rhythm and Rhyme

Letter search

Word order, missing words

 

Demonstrate knowledge of the concepts of "line" and "letter"

Associate the names of letters with their shapes

Recite a finger play and a rhyme and a poem

Understand and follow simple and multiple-step directions

Use increasingly complex sentence structures

Ask appropriate questions about a rhyme

Make judgments about what they hear

Tell parts of a rhyme they liked or disliked

Hear specific words in sentences and pick them out

Repeat parts of a nursery rhyme

Demonstrate that letters are grouped to form words

 

 

 

A Book of Friends 
11/30/2005

Who Is a Friend? 
11/30/2005

Sunshine & Storm 
11/30/2005

Near and Far 
11/30/2005

The Two Frogs 
11/30/2005

A New Friend 
11/30/2005

I Love You, Blue Kangaroo! 
11/30/2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Math Unit 4: Numeration

 

 

 Essential Questions 

 Content 

 Skills 

 Assessments 

 Lessons 

 Standards 

 

 

Unifix Cubes

Shapes

Numbers

Patterns

Seasons

Money

 

Sort shapes

Use Unifix Cubes

Identify rectangles

Create rectangles

Identify the number two

Create sets of two

Match patterns

Name signs of winter

Identify the number three

Create sets of three

 

 

 

L37 Sorting Three Shapes 
12/31/2005

L38 Introducing Unifix Cubes 
12/31/2005

L39 Introducing the Rectangle 
12/31/2005

L40 Exploring Rectangles 
12/31/2005

L41 Introducing the Number Two 
12/31/2005

L42 Exploring the Number Two; Exploring Triangles 
12/31/2005

L43 Matching Patterns 
12/31/2005

L44 Introducing Winter 
12/31/2005

L45 Introducing the Number Three 
12/31/2005

L46 Exploring the Number Three 
12/31/2005

L47 Introducing the Penny 
12/31/2005

L48 Introducing the Diamond Shape 
12/31/2005

 

 

 

 

Reading Unit 4: Helping Hands

 

 

 Essential Questions 

 Content 

 Skills 

 Assessments 

 Lessons 

 Standards 

Who are community helpers?

 

Phonolocial and Phonemic Awareness

Exploring Vocabulary/Oral Language

Book and Print Awareness

Building and Using Language

Reading Readiness

Rhythm and Rhyme

Oral Blending

Two-Syllable Words

 

Associate the names of letters with their shapes and sounds

Recognize matching sounds and rhymes in familiar words

Show an awareness of beginning and ending sounds of words

Associate the spoken word with the written word

Recognize matching sounds and rhymes in a game

Discriminate and identify sounds in spoken language

Recognize that words are separated by spaces

Hear and discriminate separate syllables in words

Hear specific words in a poem and pick them out

Be aware of syllables by clapping to these in words

Associate sounds with written words

Recognize matching sounds and rhymes in a familiar poem

 

 

 

Pretend You're a Community Helper 
12/31/2005

I Want to Be a Police Officer 
12/31/2005

A Day with a Mail Carrier 
12/31/2005

Fire Truck 
12/31/2005

Jack and the Beanstalk 
12/31/2005

Helpers 
12/31/2005

Dot the Fire Dog 
12/31/2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Math Unit 5: Exploring Numbers

 

 

 Essential Questions 

 Content 

 Skills 

 Assessments 

 Lessons 

 Standards 

 

 

Shapes

Numbers

Addresses

Size

Sorting

Sets

Measurement - Length

Opposites

 

Create diamonds

Identify the number four

Make sets of four

Sort sets

Name sets

Identify five

Create sets of five

Count from one to five

Identify numbers one to five

Understand addresses

Identify short and tall

Identify heart shapes

Create examples of short and tall

 

Math Progress
1/1/2006

 

L49 Creating Diamonds 
1/31/2006

L50 In Itroducing the Number Four 
1/31/2006

L51 Exploring the Number Four 
1/31/2006

L52 Sorting Four Shapes 
1/31/2006

L53 Sorting and Naming Sets 
1/31/2006

L54 Introducing the Number Five 
1/31/2006

L55 Exploring the Number Five 
1/31/2006

L56 Reviewing the Numbers One Through Five 
1/31/2006

L57 Introducing Addresses 
1/31/2006

L58 Introducing Short and Tall 
1/31/2006

L59 Introducing the Heart Shape 
1/31/2006

L60 Creating Short and Tall 
1/31/2006

 

 

 

 

Reading Unit 5: Let's Go!

 

 

 Essential Questions 

 Content 

 Skills 

 Assessments 

 Lessons 

 Standards 

Why is transportation important?

 

Oral Blending

Rhythm and Rhyme

Segmentation

Phonological and Phonemic awareness

Exploring Vocabulary

Book and Print Awareness

Building and Using Language

 

Request specific games, finger plays, and songs

Repeat parts of a story

Recognize matching sounds and rhymes in familiar words, games, and songs

Hear specific words in a rhyme and pick them out

 

Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
1/29/2006

 

On the Go -I-
1/31/2006

The Bus for Us 
1/31/2006

Wheels Around 
1/31/2006

Trains 
1/31/2006

The Gingerbread Man 
1/31/2006

Traffic Jam 
1/31/2006

I Love Trains! 
1/31/2006

 

1.3 ~ Chooses to participate in a wide variety of experiences.

 

1.4 ~ Demonstrates eagerness to find out more about other people and to discover new things in the environment.

 

2.4 ~ Demonstrates independence and self-direction when making choices.

 

2.5 ~ Sustains attention and focuses on activities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Math Unit 6: Using Numbers

 

 

 Essential Questions 

 Content 

 Skills 

 Assessments 

 Lessons 

 Standards 

 

 

Numbers

Sorting

Graphs

Pattern Blocks

Size

Shapes

Money

Seasons

 

Identify the number two

Identify two objects

Identify the number four

Identify sets of four

Use Pattern Blocks

Order objects from shortest to longest

Make patterns with pattern blocks

Identify the number six

Count out six objects

Itentify sets of six

Identify a shamrock shape

Match designs

Count pennies

Use pennies

Graph pets

Name signs of spring

 

 

 

L61 Recognizing Two and Four 
2/28/2006

L62 Sorting by Type; Creating a Graph 
2/28/2006

L63 Introducing Pattern Blocks 
2/28/2006

L64 Ordering Shortest to Longest 
2/28/2006

L65 Patterning Using Pattern Blocks 
2/28/2006

L66 Introducing the Number Six 
2/28/2006

L67 Exploring the Number Six 
2/28/2006

L68 Introducing the Shamrock; Matching Designs 
2/28/2006

L69 Counting Pennies 
2/28/2006

L70 Using Pennies 
2/28/2006

L71 Graphing Pets 
2/28/2006

L72 Introducing Spring 
2/28/2006

 

 

 

 

Reading Unit 6: Senses

 

 

 Essential Questions 

 Content 

 Skills 

 Assessments 

 Lessons 

 Standards 

How do we get information about the world

Segmentation

 

Oral Blending

Phonological and Phonemic awareness

Building and Using Language

Book and Print Awareness

Exploring Vocabulary

 

Recognize matching sounds and rhymes in a familiar poem

Recite a finger play

Make connections between sounds and leters

 

Phonological and Phonemic Awareness - 01
2/28/2006

 

My Cat Tuna 
2/28/2006

My Five Senses 
2/28/2006

Tickly Prickly 
2/28/2006

Smells 
2/28/2006

The Princess and the Pea 
2/28/2006

Here It Comes 
2/28/2006

The Seals on the Bus 
2/28/2006

 

4.5 ~ Tries new ways of doing things and uses materials in creative ways.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Math Unit 7: Exploring Numbers

 

 

 Essential Questions 

 Content 

 Skills 

 Assessments 

 Lessons 

 Standards 

 

 

Money

Numbers

Colors

Telephone

Shapes

Pattern Blocks

 

Identify a nickel

Match numbers one through five

Match colors

Use a telephone

Identify the number seven

Count out seven objects

Identify sets of seven

Identify a dime

Identify an oval

Sort pattern blocks

Match shapes

Identify the number zero

Identify sets of zero

Identify the number eight

Identify sets of eight objects

 

 

 

L73 Introduching the Nickel 
3/31/2006

L74 Matching the Numbers One Through Five 
3/31/2006

L75 Matching Colors 
3/31/2006

L76 Introducing the Telephone 
3/31/2006

L77 Introducing the Number Seven 
3/31/2006

L78 Exploring the Number Seven 
3/31/2006

L79 Introducing the Dime 
3/31/2006

L80 Introducing the Oval 
3/31/2006

L81 Sorting Pattern Blocks 
3/31/2006

L82 Matching Shapes 
3/31/2006

L83 Introducing Zero 
3/31/2006

L84 Introducing the Number Eight 
3/31/2006

L85 Exploring the Number Eight 
3/1/2006

 

 

 

 

Reading Unit 7: At the Farm

 

 

 Essential Questions 

 Content 

 Skills 

 Assessments 

 Lessons 

 Standards 

What is a farm community

 

Phonological and Phonemic awareness

Oral Blending

Rhythm and Rhyme

Segmentation

Building and Using Language

Book and Print Awareness

Exploring Vocabulary

 

Attend appropiately

Maintain attention

Work cooperatively

Activate prior knowledge

Use simple comprehension strategies and skills

build vocabulary

Use appropriate listening and speaking behavior to ask and answer quesitona

Relate personal experiences to a selection

Experiment with writing, using scribbling and dictating messages

Know how to locate the front and back covers, title, page numbers, and table o contents

Repeat parts of a nursery rhyme

 

Phonological and Phonemic Awareness - 02
3/28/2006

 

Wake Up, Farm! 
3/31/2006

Farm Animals 
3/31/2006

Dora's Eggs 
3/31/2006

Who Said, "Moo"? 
3/31/2006

Johnny and the Three Goats 
3/31/2006

Little Boy Blue 
3/31/2006

Inside a Barn in the Country 
3/31/2006

 

2.1 ~ Demonstrates persistence by working towards completing tasks, and accepting help when needed.

 

2.2 ~ Selects and engages in activities, moving independently from one activity to another.

 

2.3 ~ Demonstrates self-help skills, including selecting toys and materials to use in activities and returning them when finished.

 

2.4 ~ Demonstrates independence and self-direction when making choices.

 

2.5 ~ Sustains attention and focuses on activities.

 

3.3 ~ Demonstrates satisfaction or delight when solving a problem or completing a task.

 

3.4 ~ Demonstrates thinking skills and verbal problem-solving skills. (Uses self-talk and thinking aloud to solve problems.)

 

4.1 ~ Explores and experiments with a wide variety of materials and activities.

 

4.2 ~ Makes independent decisions about materials to use in order to express individuality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Math Unit 8: More Numbers

 

 

 Essential Questions 

 Content 

 Skills 

 Assessments 

 Lessons 

 Standards 

 

 

Money

Numbers

Pattern Blocks

Shapes

Measurement - Weight

Ordinal Numbers

 

Identify a quarter

Identify the number nine

Count out nine objects

Identify sets of nine

Create designs with pattern blocks

Sort coins

Identify a hexagon

Identify the number ten

Count out ten objects

Identify sets of ten objects

Count from one to ten

Use money

Match numbers six through ten

Know the difference between heavy and light

Identify first and last

 

 

 

L86 Introducing the Quarter 
4/30/2006

L87 Introducing the Number Nine 
4/30/2006

L88 Exploring the Number Nine 
4/30/2006

L89 Making Designs with Pattern Blocks 
4/30/2006

L90 Sorting Coins 
4/30/2006

L91 Introducing the Hexagon 
4/30/2006

L92 Introducing the Number Ten 
4/30/2006

L93 Exploring the Number Ten 
4/30/2006

L94 Acting out the Numbers One Through Ten 
4/30/2006

L95 Using Money 
4/30/2006

L96 Matching the Numbers Six Through Ten 
4/30/2006

L97 Introducing Heavy and Light 
4/30/2006

L98 Acting Out First and Last 
4/30/2006

 

 

 

 

Reading Unit 8: Changes

 

 

 Essential Questions 

 Content 

 Skills 

 Assessments 

 Lessons 

 Standards 

Why do things change?

 

Phonological and Phonemis Awareness

Oral Blending

Rhythm and Rhyme

Exploring Vocabulary

Book and Print Awareness

Building and Using Language

 

Attend appropriately

Maintain attention

Work cooperatively

Activate prior knowledge

Use simple comprehension strategies and skills

build vocabulary

Use appropriate listening and speakinf behavior to ask and answer quesitons

Relate personal experiences to a selection

Experiment with writing, using scribbling and drawing, and dictating messages

Begin to apply what they are learning about the sounds of spoken language and the letters of the alphabet to read and write words

 

Phonological and Phonemic Awareness - 03
4/30/2006

 

Same Things Change 
4/30/2006

The Apple Pie Tree 
4/30/2006

Growing Like Me 
4/30/2006

Growing Up 
4/30/2006

How Horse Got Fast 
4/30/2006

Melting 
4/30/2006

Moonbear's Pet 
4/30/2006

 

1.2 ~ Asks questions to find answers and wonders why.

 

1.3 ~ Chooses to participate in a wide variety of experiences.

 

1.4 ~ Demonstrates eagerness to find out more about other people and to discover new things in the environment.

 

2.1 ~ Demonstrates persistence by working towards completing tasks, and accepting help when needed.

 

2.2 ~ Selects and engages in activities, moving independently from one activity to another.

 

2.3 ~ Demonstrates self-help skills, including selecting toys and materials to use in activities and returning them when finished.

 

2.4 ~ Demonstrates independence and self-direction when making choices.

 

2.5 ~ Sustains attention and focuses on activities.

 

4.3 ~ Develops creative solutions to solve problems in play and daily situations.

 

4.4 ~ Engages in fantasy play, taking on pretend roles with real or imaginary objects.

 

4.5 ~ Tries new ways of doing things and uses materials in creative ways.

 

4.6 ~ Uses imagination to create a variety of ideas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Math Unit 9: Review

 

 

 Essential Questions 

 Content 

 Skills 

 Assessments 

 Lessons 

 Standards 

 

 

Shapes

Graphs

Money

Patterns

Numbers

 

Identify missisng shapes

Create patterns in a circle

Graph items

Identify a dollar

Create patterns

Count from one through ten

Talk about things they know

Name coins

Identify shapes

 

 

 

L99 Identifying Missing Shapes 
5/31/2006

L100 Making Patterns in a Circle 
5/31/2006

L101 Graphing Pockets 
5/31/2006

L102 Introducing the Dollar 
5/31/2006

L103 Free Pattern Day 
5/31/2006

L104 Counting Book 
5/31/2006

L105 Things I Know 
5/31/2006

L106 Reviewing Coins 
5/31/2006

L107 Coin Book 
5/31/2006

L108 Fun with Shapes 
5/31/2006

 

 

 

 

Reading Unit 9: Review

 

 

 Essential Questions 

 Content 

 Skills 

 Assessments 

 Lessons 

 Standards 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alphabet Review 
5/31/2006