Pre-Kindergarten

Week 1

Essential Question

What is a community and who lives there?

I live in a community.

Key Concepts and Skills:

• ✔Language and Communication: Discuss concepts of neighborhood, neighbors, and community; introduce plural nouns; compound words.
• ✔Phonemic and Sound-Symbol Awareness: Introduce sound /s/ and lowercase letter s.
• ✔Emergent Literacy: Identify and discuss character, setting, and events.
• ✔Emergent Writing: Introduce prewriting stoke Touch, push over; complete directed drawing: Flower.
• ✔Mathematics: Introduce rectangle shape; concepts of near and far; yesterday, today, tomorrow, weekend; count to 4.
• ✔Science: Introduce color orange.
• ✔Social and Emotional: Examine facial expressions and make inferences about feelings.

Week 2 

Essential Question

What is a community and who lives there?

People in a community work and play together.

Key Concepts and Skills:

• ✔ Language and Communication: Identify high-frequency words here, is, a.
• ✔ Emergent Literacy: Discuss concepts of harvest, festival, and fall season; identify setting, characters, and events.
• ✔ Emergent Writing: Form lowercase letters m, t in the air; complete directed drawing: Bear.
• ✔ Phonological and Sound-Symbol Awareness: Introduce sound /t/ and letter t; segment, blend, and count syllables.
• ✔ Mathematics: Compare using big/bigger, tall/taller, small/smaller; sort groups and form rows; count items.
• ✔ Science: Introduce the color purple; identify and discuss healthy foods and habits.
• ✔ Fine Arts: Paint with watercolors.

Week 3 

Essential Question

What is a community and who lives there?

Being healthy is important.

Key Concepts and Skills:

• ✔Language and Communication: Discuss healthy food choices, importance of exercise and rest; washing body and brushing teeth.
• ✔Emergent Literacy: Identify that books can give information or tell a story.
• ✔Emergent Writing: Complete directed drawing: Robot; form letters m, a, s, t, i in the air.
• ✔Phonological and Sound-Symbol Awareness: Introduce sound /i/ and letter i; identify real and nonsense words.
• ✔Mathematics: Introduce square shape; number 5; create a pictogram.
• ✔Science: Discuss importance of food labels; introduce the color brown; check weather using a thermometer; examine food ingredients.
• ✔Social and Emotional: Share stories and compliment others.