September

  • Citizenship - following rules, being kind

  • Correct letter formation

  • Letter recognition and sounds

  • Phonemic awareness - rhymes, beginning sounds, syllables

  • Listening to a story and answering questions

  • Sort by common attribute (size, shape, color)

  • Simple patterns

October

  • Handwriting - correct letter formation

  • Phonemic Awareness - middle and ending sounds, compound words

  • Story Comprehension

  • Phonics - CVC words, journal writing

  • Complex patterns

  • Numbers 1-5 : write, recognize, count, compare sets, one more/one less

  • Themes - farm, pumpkins, apples, fall

  • Field trip - pumpkin patch

 

November

  • Handwriting

  • Phonemic Awareness - word ladders with changing one sound

  • Phonics - CVC words

  • Journals - sentence writing, sequencing events in a story

  • Numbers 6-10: writing, recognizing, counting, comparing sets, introduce 10s frame, rote count to 100, one-to-one count to 25

  • Themes - 50th day, (Life Long Ago) Pilgrims, Native Americans, Thanksgiving

  • Field trip - Jamestown

December

  • 5 Senses - Make gingerbread houses

  • Christian Christmas

  • Prepare for Christmas program

  • Journal writing - sentences (capitalization and punctuation)

  • Phonics - digraphs

  • Phonemic Awareness - changing sounds within a word