ELA: Unit of Study: Families

Essential Question: How are families the same and different?

Big Idea: Students will understand families have traditions and cultures that share common characteristics and differences that make them unique. 

Resources

Marvelous Me Inside and Out (All About Me) By Lisa Bullard

Always Anjali by:  Sheetal Sheth

Families by Shelley Rotner and Sheila M. Kelley

What is a Family? (Poem) By Lucy Kemp Henry  

Our Family Comes From “Round The World” (Poem) By Mary Ann Hoberman

MONDO Focus:

• Students will be reading fiction and nonfiction texts and focusing on C.A.P. skills
• Students will continue making predictions, making connections, making simple inferences, identifying the main idea, and retelling a story.

Writing: Opinion Writing

• Students will use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic and state an opinion or preference about the topic.  

Go Math!: 

Chapter 9: Students will be able to identify and describe two-dimensional shapes.

• Identify and name two-dimensional shapes
• Describe attributes of shapes
• Use words like alike and different to compare two-dimensional shapes 

Chapter 10: Students will identify three-dimensional shapes.

• Analyze and compare attributes of three-dimensional shapes
• Identify name and describe three-dimensional shapes

Common Core Learning Standards:

K.G.A.2 - Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size.

K.G.B.4 - Analyze and compare two- and three-dimensional shapes, in different sizes and orientations, using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, parts (e.g., number of sides and vertices/"corners") and other attributes (e.g., having sides of equal length).

K.G.B.6 - Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes. For example, "Can you join these two triangles with full sides touching to make a rectangle?"

K.G.A.1 - Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to.

K.G.A.3 - Identify shapes as two-dimensional (lying in a plane, "flat") or three-dimensional ("solid").

K.G.B.5 - Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components (e.g., sticks and clay balls) and drawing shapes.