Curriculum Outline 2008-2009

Unit 1-A Crayon Welcome/Preschool Pals
•Learn rules and routines
•Review colors
•Learn about our new friends at preschool

Unit 2-All About Me
• I am special and unique
• Learn to recognize name (also put letters in order)
• My body-parts of the body
• Feelings and emotions

Unit 3-The Five Senses (Letters M and S)
• Sight, smell, taste, touch, and hear
• Music-dynamics/High and low notes
• If You Give a Moose-make muffins
• Snakes!
• Science-sun experiments

Unit 4-Weather/ Ants (Letter A)
• Learn about seasons and weather
• Life of Ants
• Math-counting with ants

Unit 5-Fall-Leaves (Letter L)
• Signs of fall-why do leaves change color
• Math-tree/leaf counting boards & graphing
• Patterns & sorting
• L is for Ladybugs (counting spots)

Unit 6-Pumpkins/Pigs (Letter P)
• If You Give a Pig a Pancake-Prediction/re-telling
• Life cycle of a pumpkin
• Math-sorting, number recog., counting

Unit 7-Halloween (Letter H)
• Haunted House-Ghost Math (counting and recognition)
• Spiders and bats-math and science activities
• Monsters-review colors/sorting

Unit 8-Bookweek (Letter B)
• How to take care of books
• Draw picture stories
• Our favorite books (parents come and read to us!)
• Balloons-static experiments
• Button centers-sorting, lacing, matching
• Fun with Bubbles
• Math-counting/matching numbers

Unit 9-Turkeys (letter T)
• Life of a Turkey
• Teepees/start Indians-Indian art
• Math-number recog./matching

Unit 10-Thanksgiving (Letter I)
• Indians-typical day, make Indian fry bread
• Pilgrims and the First Thanksgiving
• Ice experiments/Make ice cream
• Music-rhythm
• Thanksgiving Feast!

Unit 11-Christmas Around the World
(Letter C)
• Germany-Gingerbread men, Christmas trees, ABC review, counting, number recog.
• Mexico-piñatas, ABC review
• Holland-leave out shoes for Sinter Claus, Math-number recog/ counting, patterns
• Hanukkah-Dreidles, make latkes
Christmas Unit Cont.
• France-advent calendars, nativity, make crepes
• Sweden-Christmas trees for the birds, St. Lucia, Match upper and lowercase letters (review)
• USA- (Letter C) candy canes, reindeer, Math-patterns, measurement, memory, lacing, Christmas party-gift exchange

Unit 12-Snow/Snowmen (Letter O)
• Snowmen-size discrimination and sorting/following directions
• What is snow?
• Math #2, number recognition, counting
• O is for Octopus

Unit 13-Animals in Winter (Review)
• Math #3/number order, recognition, and writing practice
• The Mitten-story re-telling
• ABC review

Unit 14-Space (letter N and J)
• Moon, sun, planets, astronauts, space food
• Math #4 & #5 sorting, patterns, number order
• Memory/Lacing
• Jell-O Jigglers

Unit 15-Groundhog Day/Safety/Manners
(Letter Y)
• Groundhogs/Shadow science
• Science-yeast experiment
• Safety with Little Red-strangers
• Manners with Goldilocks
• Math #6/counting

Unit 16-Valentines/Presidents’ Day
(Letter V)
• Same and different/sharing/ matching
• Math #7/counting, sorting, number recog., coin recog, patterns, addition & subtraction
• Science-Volcanoes
• Lincoln/Washington-our profiles

Unit 17-Community Helpers (Letter Q&D)
• Firemen-counting/size disc./shapes
• Police officer-guest speaker
• Community Helper Center-doctor, carpenter, library, storekeeper, etc.
• Fieldtrip to Library and Kohlers
• D is for Dads-what do our Dad’s do? What do I want to be?
• Math #8/addition with dominoes

Unit 18-Wind/Wild and Wooly weather
(Letter W)
• Science-wind and water experiments
• Math #9 and 10/counting/patterns
• March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb

Unit 19-Spring/Colors (Letter K)
• Sign of spring-sorting
• Math-counting, recognition, missing numbers, review 1-10
• Mixing colors-Jell-o science
• Kites

Unit 20-Leprechauns/Rainbows(Letter R)
• Science with rainbows-prisms and bubbles
• Review colors/sorting
• Green party/Leprechauns
• Match upper and lowercase letters
Unit 21-Rain/Umbrellas (Letter U)
• Math-addition and subtraction, sequencing, counting and # recognition
• Science-raindrop experiments
• Water cycle/Lightening

Unit 22-Seeds/Grass/Growing (Letter G)
• Science-bean exploration/growing
• What seeds need to grow
• Math-estimation, sorting, counting, review 1-10, addition and subtraction, patterns
• Make Granola

Unit 23-Eggs/Easter/Bunnies (Letter E)
• Science-Egg experiments
• Math-sorting, patterns, number order, counting, addition and subtraction, tracing practice
• Bunnies-food and lifestyle
• ABC review-match upper and lowercase letters
• Easter Egg Hunt fieldtrip

Unit 24-Spring/Chicks (Letter X)
• Math-counting, number recog, correspondence,
• X marks the spot treasure hunt
• Little Red Hen-cooperation/make bread

Unit 25-Fish/Ocean and Beach (Letter F)
• Math-sorting, gold fish addition and subtraction, counting and number recog.
• Beginning sound review/rhyming
• Science-sea shells/Float and Sink experiments
• Rainbow Fish-we are special/ sharing
• Swimmy-teamwork/Make No-bake cookies
Unit 26-Zoo Life/Zebras (Letter Z)
• Zoo animals
• Lacing, sorting
• Math-counting, writing numbers, perimeter
• ABC order, beginning sound review, fact recollection

Unit 27-May–flowers/Mother’s Day
(Review)
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom-ABC review
• Our Mom’s are special
• Sunflower science-predicting
• Math-review

Unit 28-Mail (Review)
• Postal carriers/parts of a letter
• Math-addition and subtraction, review numbers
• Practice blending words/review ABC
• Fieldtrip to the Lehi Post Office

Unit 29-Transportation (Review)
• Wheels/Wind and Air
• Car safety rules/stoplights
• ABC order
• Science-What sank the boat?

This list gives you an idea of the units and skills we will go over throughout the year. It may seem repetitious in the math area, but most of the activities are math games or centers that involve a particular skill (the more practice the better!). The list does not include the movement activities, art and craft projects, or specific unit and letter activities. I’m sure you will see these things coming home throughout the year. You may also look at our complete curriculum any time. Because of the Alpine district schedule, the units will not go exactly in this order. That information will be on the monthly newsletter. Thank you, Miss Amber