Kindergarten Resources
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General Terms in the Thematic Units
Bar graph, add, subtract, more than, less than, same as, length, area, volume, penny, nickel, dime, hour, symmetry, doubling, skip count
Month 1 - September
Calendar Connections: Calendar Updates 1 and 2: Exploring time and its measurement; Developing an awareness of the passage of time; Measuring time on a calendar.
Content Covered: Exploring and Identifying patterns, Counting items around the classroom, Describing the location of objects around the room.
Vocabulary: Above, Below, Between, Next to, Behind, Front, Back, On, Same Side/Different Side, Top, Bottom
Web Resources
Smart Notebook Connections and Resources
Month 2 - October
Calendar Connections: Calendar Updates 3 and 4: Developing an awareness of time, Recording the sequence of events in a day and a week, Measuring time on a calendar, Figuring out how many days until an event
Content Covered: Representing patterns using symbols (AB), Copying a pattern, Extending patterns, Sorting and ordering sets, Counting orally, Understanding position words: under, above, below, in front of,” Describing something “as tall as ___________”
Web Resources
Pattern Blocks-Demonstration (Arcytech)
Tall, Taller, Tallest
Smart
Notebook Connections and Resources
Kid Pix: Stamping Activity
Month 3 - November
Calendar Connections: Calendar Updates 5 and 6: Identifying and extending patterns on a calendar using one element, Measuring time on a calendar
Content Covered: Comparing patterns, Using ten frames, Exploring part-part whole relationships of a number, Developing meaning for addition and subtraction, Use of spatial words to describe movement back and forth and from here to there, Making height comparisons: taller than, shorter than, and close to.
Web Resources
Smart Notebook Connections and Resources
KidPix - Create ABB pattern
Month 4 - December
Calendar Connections: Calendar Updates 7 and 8: Using ordinal numbers on a calendar: first, second, third, Exploring patterns with two elements: e.g. circles and triangles.
Content Covered: Looking at the number 5 as a benchmark number, Exploring part-part-whole relationships of the number five, Developing meaning for addition and subtraction, Making length comparisons: longer, shorter, or close to.
Vocabulary: map, path
Web Resources
Smart Notebook Connections and Resources-coming soon
KidPix: Create Patterns using shapes, stamps
Month 5 - January
Calendar Connections: Calendar Updates 9 and 10: Identifying and using number patterns on a calendar, Measuring time on a calendar.
Content Covered: Estimating and comparing numbers to the number 5: more than or less than. Counting by 10s, Measuring length using nonstandard units.
Web Resources
Number Track
Smart Notebook Connections and Resources
Ten_frame.xbt - Number Sentences using Ten Frame
Measuring length using non-standard units
Measuring length using non-standard units (2)
Measuring length using not-standard units (3)
Measuring length using non-standard units (4)
Kid Pix: Create Number Sentences using stamps and text tool
Month 6 - February
Calendar Connections: Calendar Updates 11 and 12: Identifying number patterns. Identifying and using patterns on the calendar to figure out missing pattern elements.
Content Covered: Sort dominoes by sums and place them on a number line. Developing meaning for addition and subtraction. Sort 3-D objects. Counting using one to one correspondence.
Vocabulary: flat, pointed, rolls, round, sides, areaWeb Resources
SmartBoard Resources
Domino math
2D & 3D objects - Does it move? or does it not?
Graph Club: Lesson 1: Weather Words: Sunny, Partly Sunny, Cloudy, Rainy, Sunny, Dry
Month 7 - March
Calendar Connections: Calendar Updates 13 and 14: Using calendar patterns to skip count by 2’s. Understanding concept of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Content Covered: Looking at the number 10 as a benchmark number. Counting backwards from 10. Exploring part-part-whole relationships for the number 10. Explore two–dimensional shapes. Exploring area and its measurement. Finding area using a standard unit: square inch tile.
Vocabulary: area, circle, diamond, hexagon, rectangle, rhombus, square, trapezoid, triangle
Web Resources
SmartBoard Resources
Comparing and contrasting 2-dimensional shapes
Month 8 - April
Calendar Connections: Calendar Updates 15 and 16: Extending patterns with more than two elements (patterns) on the calendar. Identify the value of a penny and a nickel
Content Covered: Exploring three-part partitions of the number ten. Creating and solving word problems. Investigating attributes of two-dimensional shapes. Collecting and organizing data in a table. Exploring volume by ordering containers by capacity.
Vocabulary: geoband, geoboard
Web Resources
Web Resources
Smart Notebook Connections and Resources
Comparing and contrasting 2-dimensional shapes
Month 9 - May
Calendar Connections: Calendar Updates 17 and 18: Solving problems using a calendar. Measuring time on a calendar. Developing the passage of time using the hour hand of the clock.
Content Covered: Discovering fractions. Comparing two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes. Sorting objects by weight. Ordering objects by weight. Solving problems using addition and subtraction.
Vocabulary: Weight, two-pan balanceWeb Resources
Web Resources
Telling time to hour, half hour, minute
Smart Notebook Connections and Resources
Month 10 - June
Calendar Connections: Calendar Updates 19 and 20: Solving problems using a calendar. Measuring time on a calendar. Using tally marks to count by 5s. Comparing and ordering numbers using symbols (<, >, or =)
Content Covered: Comparison of numbers: one more, one less. Exploring symmetry.
Vocabulary: symmetryWeb Resources
SmartBoard Resources
Sites to be used throughout the Year
Money and Time Resources
Use these sites to reinforce time and money skills throughout the year.
Money
Time
Other sites to be used throughout the Year