Unit of Study: Building Classroom Communities 

Essential Question: What does good behavior look like?

Resources:

The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn

The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten by Joseph Slate

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. 

Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Bill Martin Jr. 

If you Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff

Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus

Spot Goes to the Park by Eric Hill

 

Writing: Narrative Writing

• Teachers will gather seed ideas from students. 
• An anchor chart will be created for student ideas. 
• Students will make connections to read alouds shared. 
• Students will create pictures of their ideas using realistic shapes and colors to match. 

 

Go Math!: 

Chapter 1: Represent, Count and Write Numbers 0 to 5

Students will:

• Model and count objects
• Represent a number with number names and written numerals
• Use objects or drawings to decompose a number into pairs
• Solve problems by using the strategy make a model

Common Core Learning Standards:

K.CC.A.3 - Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).

K.CC.B.4a - Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality. When counting objects, say the number names in standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.