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Month |
Content/Topic |
Skills |
Assessment |
Standards |
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September |
(Physical Science)
(Life Science)
(Life Science) |
- Calendar activities
- Gathering and recording variations in weather patterns
- Sequencing the school day
- Recognize colors and shapes
- Identify color patterns in our world.
- Identify and reproduce circles, squares, triangles and rectangles.
- Sequencing the seasons of an apple tree.
- Tasting sweet and sour apples
- Graphing favorite kinds of apples and favorite things made from apples.
- Following directions to make applesauce.
- To observe and graph apple seeds in different apples
- To sort mother and baby animals.
- Animals that live on the farm
- Animals that live in the pond
- Sequencing animals littlest to largest
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- Teacher observations
- Individual assessments
- Student projects
- Graphs
- Sequence pictures
- Teacher observations
- Student pictures
- Student projects
- Frog pictures
- Fish pictures
- Littlest to largest lambs
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- A4.3 A4.5
- C 4.1 C4.4
- C4.5 C4.6
- C4.8 D4.1
- D4.4 E4.5
- E4.6
- C4.2 C4.6
- C4.8
- D4.1 D4.2
- D4.4
- A4.1 A4.2
- A4.5 B4.1
- C4.1 C4.2
- C4.3 C4.5
- C4.6 C4.7
- C 4.8 D4.1
- D4.2 D4.3
- D4.4 D4.5
- H4.1
- A4.1 A4.2
- A4.3 A4.4 A4.5 B4.1
- C4.1 C4.2
- D4.2 F4.1
- F4.2 F4.3
- F4.4
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October |
(Life Science)
(Life Science)
(Pumpkin Patch
Field Trip)
(Life Science)
(Earth Science)
(Physical Science)
(Physical Science) |
- Classifying Pets (kittens and dogs)
- Kangaroos are zoo animals
- To observe that pumpkins grow from seeds, have roots, stems, leaves and flowers.
- To dissect a pumpkin.
- To make fall pictures
- To observe leaves changing colors in fall
- To compare and contrast leaves from trees
- To order the seasons of the year
- Fire truck visit
- To explore fire, smoke and tools used to put out fires
- To observe keys are tools used to help people
- To observe peanut butter is made from peanuts
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- Carving a pumpkin
- Pumpkin sequencing
- Class book
- Observations
- Fall pictures
- Leaf collections
- Sequence pictures
- Discussion
- Observation
- Worksheet
- Class book
- Teacher observations
- Experiment
- Student observations
- Experiment
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- A.4.1 A4.2
- A4.5 C4.1
- C4.5 C4.6
- C4.8 D4.1
- E4.1 F4.1
- F4.2 F4.3
- F4.4
- A4.1 A4.2
- A4.3 A4.4
- C4.1 C4.2
- D4.1 D4.3 D4.4 D4.8
- H4.2
- A4.1 A4.2
- A4.3 A4.4
- A4.5 C4.1
- C4.2 C4.3
- D4.2 D4.3
- D4.4 D4.8
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November |
(Physical Science)
(Life Science)
(Earth Science)
(Earth Science)
(Life Science) |
- To sort food from the Super Market.
- Observing and describing common objects and their properties.
- To sort and classify foods
- To recognize that a plant grows from a seed.
- Sink and Float experiments
- To recognize changes in the night time sky
- Stars shine at night
- The sun shines in the day
- To investigate owls
- To describe, compare and classify spiders and insects
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- Teacher observations
- Student projects
- Story: The Turnip Seed
- Acting out the story
- Sequencing of pictures
- Students record page of sink and float experiment
- Student drawings
- Class book
- Student project
- Class art project
- Teacher observation
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December |
(Physical Science)
- Earth’s land, Air and Water
(Earth Science)
(Earth Science) |
- To create traffic lights and investigate meanings of colors
- Children will identify red means stop. Yellow means slow and green means go
- To create triangles cut into wrapping paper stars
- To create class books entitled: Water is used for . . and Somewhere the Weather is . .
- To answer and discuss weather riddles with Heather Weather.
- To create art pictures of different kinds of weather
- To identify weather that is characteristic of winter and tell how it affects people plants, and animals.
- To read a thermometer identifying cold and hot temperatures on the thermometer
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- Class art project
- Teacher observation
- Heather weather art projects
- Class discussion and observations of thermometers
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- A4.1 A4.2
- A4.4 A4.5
- C4.1 C4.2
- C4.3 C4.6
- D4.1 D4.2
- D4.3 D4.4
- D4.7 D4.8
- E4.5 E4.6
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January |
(Earth Science)
(Earth Science)
- Earth’s Land, Air and Water
(Earth Science)
(Physical Science)
(Physical Science)
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- To order the seasons
- To identify weather that is characteristic of seasonal changes throughout the year.
- To memorize the months of the year.
- To memorize the days of the year
- To discuss calendars and how we order our world
- To discuss what makes day and night.
- To create winter clothing
- Mitten sewing and sorting
- To investigate oceans
- Oceans are salty
- Animals that live in the oceans
- Plant life that is in the ocean
- To experiment with mixing colors
- Red and yellow make orange
- Blue and yellow make green
- Red and blue make purple
- Magnets push or pull objects that contain iron or steel
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- Class discussions
- Songs and poems
- Recitations and actions
- Teacher observations
- Children’s retelling of the story The Mitten
- Sewing project
- Ocean pictures
- Science experiments
- Teacher observations
- Student painting of Mouse Mess class book.
- Teacher Observation
- Children’s play with various magnets and objects.
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- A4.1 A4.2
- A4.4 A4.5
- C4.1 C4.2
- C4.3 C4.6
- D4.1 D4.2
- D4.4 D4.7
- D4.8 E4.3
- E4.4 E4.5
- E4.6
- G4.4 F4.2
- D4.2 D4.5
- D4.6 D4.8
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February |
(Life Science)
(Life Science)
(Life Science)
- Earth’s Land, Air and Water
(Earth Science)
(Earth Science)
(Physical Science) |
- To recognize that animals and people need plants.
- Sequencing the growth of a wheat seed to harvest and made into bread for us to eat.
- To identify homes for animals and homes for people.
- To observe and sort vegetables and fruit
- To taste fruits and vegetables
- To make an active volcano
- To compare and contrast landforms.
- Story: Good Night Moon
- To recognize day and night changes
- Objects that push and pull
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- Story of: The Little Red Hen
- Sequencing pictures
- Retelling of the story
- Volcano experiment
- Sand play observation
What Do You Do At Night?
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- G4.4 F4.2
- D4.2 D4.5
- D4.6 D4.8
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March |
(Physical Science)
(Life Science)
(Life Science)
(Life Science)
(Earth Science) |
- Describe and compare nuts in terms of shape properties such as shape and texture
- Sorting nuts
- To recognize that birds have feathers two legs and two wings.
- To sort zoo animals, farm animals and wild animals.
- To recognize the various body coverings of animals
- To observe and describe similarities and differences between plants.
- To identify weather that is characteristic of spring and tell how it affects people, plants and animals
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- Nut graph
- Sorting sheet
- Game
- Art project: Nesting Birds
- Zoo animal pictures
- Paint animal skins
- Class book of favorite zoo animal
- Animal skin covering worksheet.
Zinnia’s, Daisy’s etc.
- Umbrella pictures
- March kite pictures
- Lion and Lamb art proj.
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April |
(Earth Science)
(Life Science)
- Animal – Chicks and Bunnies
(Life Science)
(Life Science)
(Life Science) |
- To observe the sun’s heating power and seasonal changes throughout the year.
- To observe changes in plants and trees.
- To observe how butterflies grow and change.
- To sequence the life cycle of a butterfly.
- To recognize that baby animals are born in the spring
- To observe that mammals have hair or fur. Most mammals have four legs, some have two legs: a whale is a mammal that doesn’t have legs.
- To recognize that dinosaurs lived along time ago.
- Some dinosaurs were meat eaters. Some were plant eaters.
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- Easter art projects
- Nature walk
- Pictures with green grass and sun in background
- Butterfly metamorphism project
- Picture sort
- Dog art project
- Modeling clay dinosaurs
- Class book
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- F4.1F4.2
- F4.3F4.4
- A4.4A4.5
- B4.1B4.3
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May |
(Earth Science)
(Life Science)
(Life Science)
(Earth Science)
(Life Science)
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- To recognize that reptiles have dry scaly skin: some have four legs and some do not have legs.
- Reptile babies hatch from eggs.
- To sort and classify rocks. (smooth, rough hard, soft, bumpy, red, gold, little, big, sparkly, etc.)
- To recognize that fish have scales and gills and live underwater
- To recognize that birds have feathers two legs and two wings
- To identify signs of spring
- To recognize that insects have six legs and three body sections. Some insects have two or four wings.
- Observations of sprouting seeds.
- To recognize that plants need sun, water and soil to grow.
- Field trip to Bergmann’s Green House
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- Round Robin art project
- Bird mobile
- Insect graph
- Insect painting
- Sprouting seeds in baggy
- Plant sunflower seed in cups
- Nature walk
- Field trip
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- F4.1F4.2
- F4.3F4.4
- A4.4A4.5
- B4.1B4.3
- F4.1F4.2
- F4.3F4.4
- A4.4A4.5
- B4.1B4.3
- F4.1F4.2
- F4.3F4.4
- A4.4A4.5
- B4.1B4.3
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May |
(Life Science) |
- To recognize the various kinds of body coverings of animals and how each helps the animal.
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- Animal Body Covings Worksheet
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