• Reading

    Students will know:

    • Books have a correct position.
    • Location of title and identify page.
    • Print has specific directionality.
    • Print has meaning and is made up of letters and words.
    • Text comes in different forms and genres.
    • Details are the parts that make up a text.
    • Retelling is talking and sharing the important details of a story in your own words.
    • Stories have illustrations that help readers understand text.
    • All parts of a text go together to give a reader meaning.
    • Text conveys meaning.
    • Characters represent who is in the story.
    • Setting represents where and when the story takes place.
    • Events are the things that happen in a story.
    • Words in a text can suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. 

     

    Students will know:

    • Mathematicians use manipulatives to solve mathematical questions.
    • How to build a safe community (safe to share thoughts, beliefs, opinions, solutions).
    • How to model with mathematics.
    • Tools can be used to represent their thinking.
    • There are routines, procedures, and structures in math.
    • Key vocabulary: how many, positional words: above, below, beside, in front of, behind, next to

    Students will be able to:

    • Think and talk mathematically.
    • Explore, reason, justify, and share their thinking.
    • Apply, interpret, and reflect on their thinking.
    • Follow routines, procedures, and structures in math.
    • Recognize that things can be alike and different in many ways.
    • Describe attributes and compare objects to see how they are the same and different (ex. quantity, size, shape, color, texture) with words like longer/shorter, more/less, bigger/smaller, heavier/lighter, softer/harder, etc. (NC.K.MD.1, NC.K.MD.2)
    • Use positional words to describe where an object is in relation to other objects. (NC.K.G.1).
    • Sort objects and explain the attribute(s) used to sort(NC.K.MD.1, NC.K.MD.3)

    IB unit of study:

    Transdisciplinary theme  

    Who We Are


    TDT Descriptors that will be focused on an inquiry into:

    • the nature of the self

    • values

    • human relationships including friends, communities

     

    Central idea          

      Lines of inquiry  

    As we grow, we learn more about ourselves and what we can do.

    1. how asking questions can help me learn new things (function)(RC: inquiry)

    2. characteristics that make people similar and different from others (form) (RC: identity)

    3. positive character traits (function)(RC: behaviors, contribution)

    4. reflecting on and sharing our learning(perspective)(RC: individuality, learner, responsibility)