Students enjoy getting to know each other and school with
a coral reef and ocean theme. Students will learn about the variety
of life in and around a coral reef. Students will write ocean words
in their journals. We will make a "crafty" coral reef and a crayon resist
ocean. We will look at a globe and discover that there is more water
on our earth than land. Hopefully students will begin to think about and
respect our environment as they learn that living things need food, sunshine,
and a clean environment free from encroachment. Students will work
with math vocabulary and learn words such as "near/far, under/over, back/front,
here/there, above/below, behind/in front, top/bottom, inside/outside."
Students will experience a variety of literature with an ocean theme.
They will free explore workjobs, and will manipulate math materials.
Students will become familiar with school routines and
procedures. They will learn our school rules and how we move about
our classroom. Students will think about safety at school.
They will learn where supplies go and where to find materials they
need. Students will become familiar with the school classroom, lunchroom,
and playground.
The baseline of the GKAP-R (Georgia Kindergarten Assessment
Program-Revised) will be given to all students. Students are assessed
with this instrument all year.
Me, I'm Special
Students will explore their own uniqueness. Just as
lighthouses are unique, so are our special students. Each child will
create a lighthouse with a special surprise. Students will learn
personal information such as their full name, address, phone number, age,
birthday, and parent names. Please help at home! Students
will talk about favorite foods, sports, friends, and other ways that they
are special. Students will explore how people grow and
change from babies to kindergartners to teenagers to adults. Students
will sing songs such as "Oh, What a Miracle," "Mirror Dancing," "Sammy,"
"This Little Light of Mine," and "We All Live Together." We will
think about ways that we are alike and different. Students will appreciate
all the many things that make us special. Students will work with
the "M,m" letter and "m" sound as well as learning to form "m" correctly.
Students will add number cards to their workjobs and continue to free explore
math materials such as unifix cubes, pattern blocks, jewels, tiles, geoboards,
and junk boxes.
My Feelings
In addition to understanding the importance of self, students
will explore their feelings and the feelings of others. They will
hopefully learn to better manage negative feelings constructively.
Students will listen to a variety of literature about feelings. We will
create feelings puppets and sing songs about our feelings. Students
will act out the story about "Caps for Sell" when the peddler becomes very
angry at the monkeys. Students will think about times when they are
scared, lonely, frustrated, happy, sad, angry, bored, excited, or proud.
Our feelings also make us unique! We'll also work with letter "F,f"
and the "f" sound. Students continue to keep a journal and will write
about their feelings.
My Family, My Home
Students will study families and how families work to meet
needs and wants. They will think about the roles of family members.
Students will enjoy literature about families as we think about how we
love and depend on our families. Students will work with new puzzles
featuring families around the world. Students will make a family
portrait in front of their home, and we will read a fact sheet about ways
families enjoy each other. Students will understand that work can overcome
social and economic problems. Students will state problems and think
about ways to solve those problems. Number cards "0-5" have been
added to workjobs and students are learning to write numbers correctly.
Students are putting sounds together and learning to write the lower case
letters for the sounds they are studying.
My School
Students have become familiar with school routines and procedures.
Students will think about safety at school. They have learned where
supplies go and where to find materials they need. Students
will become familiar with the school lunchroom, playground, music classroom,
and media center. Students will meet community helpers as we tour
our school. Students will get a "behind the scenes" peek at the office
and kitchen areas of our school. Students will meet special teachers,
the secretary, record keeper, principal, assistant principals, school nurse,
media specialist, custodians, lunchroom manager, milk carrier, and other
school helpers. They will think about the division of labor and how
work is organized at school. They will learn that the principal is
the leader of the school. Students will write school words in a journal.
Students will graph how they go to school. We will write creatively
about how we would go to school if we could travel any way. The letter
"S,s" and the "s" sound will be introduced. We will create pictures
just with rulers for ruler art. We will set up a classroom in the
creative dramatics center so that the children can role play being teacher
and student. We'll also enjoy the Miss Nelson stories. We'll
learn that students all over the world go to school and learn many of the
same skills even though the languages may be different.
Sorting
Shapes, Colors, and Sizes
Students will be reviewing the names of basic shapes, learning
new shapes, and sorting blocks by shape. Students will learn names
of 3D shapes. Students will also think about primary colors and secondary
colors and sort objects by color. We will read stories such as "The
Three Bears" and "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" and think about sizes.
Students will sort by sizes. Students will write sentences about
shapes and colors.
My Community
Students will identify community helpers and workers.
Students will examine ways that work is divided among community members.
They will understand the difference between goods and services. Students
will work with community helper centers such as puzzles, characters in
blocks, manipulatives, puppets, floor mats, and other activities.
Students will think about the work they'd like to do when they grow up.
The class will dress up or bring props for a Career Day. Students
will also work with community helper vehicles and learn about different
modes of transportation. Students will work with numbers 0-6 and
ABABAB patterns.
Transportation
Students will become familiar with emergency vehicles that
move about the community. We will graph vehicles that move on land,
water, and air. Students will enjoy Donald Crews's books, Shortcut,
School
Bus, Flying, Harbor, Trucks, and Freight Train
and
Ann Jonas's book, Round Trip. (Crews's wife) Students will
think about car, bus, and bike safety with the McGruff crime dog lessons.
They will look at a wide variety of environmental print signs. We'll
paint a traffic light and learn to read and draw road signs.
The Farm
Students will learn that communities
are made up of cities, suburbs, and rural areas. Students will understand
products that we purchase in a grocery store are raised or grown on a farm.
We will visit Butcher's farm as a class field trip. We will have
the unique opportunity to see Coweta County's last working dairy farm and
learn how milk gets to our grocery store shelves. The children will
see crops grown for nutrition, the milking machines, and storage tanks.
The baby calves are great. Students will need to dress for a comfortable
day outside since we will really be at the farm. We will enjoy the
fall season as we visit. Students will be able to identify farm animals
as well as, parent and baby animals. They will think about animal
body coverings and the care of domestic animals. Students will write creatively
in journals and with projects about the farm. Remember that students
do not attend school on Monday, October due to a teacher work day.
In math, students will continue to work with AABAAB patterns and writing
numbers 0-7.
Pumpkins in Fall
Students will enjoy weighing and measuring
a pumpkin. We will make a jack'o'lanturn and count the seeds.
Students will work with patterns ABCABC. Students will celebrate
the fall season. We will see how pumpkins grow. On Thursday, October
31, students may wear scarecrow costumes to school. Parents and grandparents
are invited to a fall celebration at 1:30.
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