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Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Reading/Phonics/Grammar/Vocabulary Division: Lower School
LEARNING OBJECTIVES SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES
EVALUATION
Students will: • Participate in daily formal
reading
• Identify story elements including plot, summary, characters, problem, solution
• Review of letters, sounds,
blends, vowels, CVC words
• Introduction to digraphs, double consonants
• Understanding of multi-
syllable words
• Introduction to nouns, verbs and adjectives
• Introduction to vocabulary and grammar skills
Strategies for:
• Decoding and reading text
• Following directions
• Independent learning
• Leveled reading groups
• Memory skills
• Generate and respond to questions
Use of: • Games - phonics and
reading
• Songs
• Art/Drawing
• Manipulatives
• Technology/Smartboard
• RAZ kids
• Leveled readers
• Guided readers
• Starfall
• Abc-ya site
• Sound and spell
Use of: • Observation
• Homework
• Classwork
• Daily 5
• Meet with the teacher
• Verbal discussions and
check ins
• Phonics games and class challenges
• Reading assessments
Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Reading/Phonics/Grammar/Vocabulary Division: Lower School
• Review of and continued instruction of sight words
• Writer Workshop - Lucy Calkins
• Explode the Code and Wordly Wise series
Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Writing Division: Lower School
LEARNING OBJECTIVES SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES
EVALUATION
Students will: • Begin to demonstrate that
writing has meaning by using pictures, letters and words to convey ideas
• Begin to strengthen beginning writing skills so students become more confident and independent writers.
Strategies for: • Use of a word wall
• Printing and proper
formation of letters
• Handwriting
• Beginning creative writing
• Discussions and exchange of ideas to include in a story
• Editing skills
Use of: • Technology through
interactive games
• Graphic Organizers
• Word Webs
• Writing
• Sentence strips
• Modeling
• ABC Order
• Introduction and appreciation of different forms of writing
• Smartboard Games
Use of: • Observation
• Centers
• Independent Work
• One to one teacher
evaluations
• Evaluation of classwork and homework
• Games
• Kindergarten Writing
Rubric
Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Math Division: Lower School
LEARNING OBJECTIVES SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES
EVALUATION
Students will: • Skip count by ones, twos,
fives and tens
• Identify ordinal position to tenths
• Master all basic addition
and subtraction facts to 18 and learn the doubles
• Measuring using inches
feet, and centimeters
• Add coins
• Draw polygons
• Observe information from real graphs, pictographs, and bar graphs
• Fluently compose and
decompose numbers to 10
Strategies for: • Multi-sensory activities
• Count and read money
• Add and subtract
• Read pictographs and
construct
• Identify patterns in a sequence
• Write fact families
• Write the doubles
• Read and draw graphs
• Construct figures
Use of: • Manipulatives
• Math Meeting
• Smartboard
• Technology
• Math games
• Linking cubes
• Patterning blocks
• Flash cards
• Geoboards
• Store items
• Coins
• Work mats
Use of: • Guided Practice
• Timed Tests and basic facts
tests
• Assessments every tenth lesson
• Hands on activities
• Observation
• Share/Pair
• Formative Assessments
• Summative Assessments
• Discussions
• Star of the Day
Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Math Division: Lower School
LEARNING OBJECTIVES SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES
EVALUATION
• Group and count objects by tens, fives, and twos
• Demonstrate the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction by undoing an addition problem with subtraction and vice versa
• Add three or more one-digit
numbers using the commutative and associative properties of addition
• Thermometers
Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Social Studies Division: Lower School
LEARNING OBJECTIVES SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES
EVALUATION
Students will: • Investigate our community,
family, city and state
• Learn about holidays and holiday customs in other countries
• Compare and contrast American and Israeli custom
• Learn the importance of
rules, procedures and consequences in school environment
• Discuss the importance of
caring for our Earth and environment
• Learn about beginning map skills and geography
• Discuss character building
Strategies for: • Gaining understand
through looking at text and pictures
• Building vocabulary and understanding
• Learning about
responsibility, honesty, attentiveness and self control
Use of: • Technology through
interactive games
• Literature
• Art
• Writing
• Use of atlas and globes
• Games and center activities
• Field trips
• Guest speakers
• Brainpop Jr.
• Smartboard Games
Use of: • Observation
• Group Discussion
• Independent Work
• Summative assessments
• Formative assessments
• Classwork
• Games
Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Science Division: Lower School LEARNING OBJECTIVES
SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL
TECHNIQUES EVALUATION
Students will: Animals Two By Two FOSS Kit
• Students will have close
and personal interaction with some common land and water animals
• Appropriate classroom habitats are established, and students learn to care for the animals
Materials and Motion FOSS Kit
• Students come to understand that humans use natural resources for everything they do and that people affect the world around them
• Students use those materials to engineer structures, applying physical science core ideas of energy transfer
Strategies for:
• Making observations
• Forming a question
• Making a prediction/hypothesis
• Conducting an experiment/investigation
• Collecting and recording data
• Analyzing information
• Reporting results
• Design/build equipment and objects
• Measuring
• Following science lab safety rules
• Working cooperatively with a partner and in a small group
Use of: Animals Two By Two
• (Earth Science) - Full Option Science System (FOSS) Kit
Materials and Motion • (Physical Science) - Full
Option Science System (FOSS) Kit
Trees and Weather
• (Earth Science) – Full Option Science System (FOSS) Kit
FOSS Science
• Stories/Resource Books and Online activities
• Individual, partner and
small group investigations
• Taking FOSS Outdoors
• Teacher Demonstrations
• Einstein Challenges
Use of:
• Student Science Notebooks
• FOSS Assessments
• Teacher Observation
• Student Reflection
• Student Rubrics
Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Science Division: Lower School LEARNING OBJECTIVES
SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL
TECHNIQUES EVALUATION
Trees and Weather FOSS Kit
• Students will have solid experiences to help them develop an understanding of what plants (and animals) need to survive and the relationship between their needs and where they live
• By monitoring local weather, students experience the patterns and variations in weather and come to understand the importance of weather forecasts to prepare for severe weather
• Keeping a science notebook
• Presenting to peers/class
• Obtain information from photographs
• Identify patterns
• Identify cause and effect
• Build/interact with models
• Lower School Garden
Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Technology (Coding and Making) Division: Lower School LEARNING OBJECTIVES
SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL
TECHNIQUES EVALUATION
Students will: CODING • Employ algorithmic
thinking to transform an idea into a computer program
• Use graphics libraries to add objects and backgrounds to programs
• Develop multiple program types: animations and toys
• Code and debug computer programs, as follows:
• Set object heading and
motion in programs
• Create user interaction via mouse actions
• Create iteration (loops)
• Sense and respond to a collision between objects
Strategies for: CODING • Solving problems
algorithmically
• Using graphics and audio in a computer program
• Conceptualizing and coding flow and execution in a computer program
• Troubleshooting and debugging programs
• Persevering through challenges that arise in the programming process
• Demonstrating fluidity in performing common programming tasks: creating motion, playing sounds
• Collaborating effectively with peers on group projects
Use of: CODING • CS Unplugged activities for
conceptual development of key concepts (searching, sorting, etc.)
Use of the Foos and Scratch Jr. platforms for: • Whole group instruction
• Demonstration and
discussion of missions and model projects
• Collaborative pairs
• Independent work time with
support from instructors and peers
• Modeling expectations
• Differentiation through
creative expression – students modify and adapt “cover story” for underlying code
Use of: CODING • Self-reflection and
evaluation
• Informal assessment of progress, conducted daily
• Final project completion as
evaluated at the end of each project
• Participation and
engagement as evaluated on scale of 1-4, conducted daily
Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Technology (Coding and Making) Division: Lower School LEARNING OBJECTIVES
SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL
TECHNIQUES EVALUATION
• Sense and respond to environment (e.g., color under sprite)
• Code simple conditionals
• Incorporate music and sounds effects
• Differentiation through programming skill –students increase code complexity according to ability
• Troubleshooting –
independently, with instructor support and with peer support
• Online sharing
Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Technology (Coding and Making) Division: Lower School LEARNING OBJECTIVES
SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL
TECHNIQUES EVALUATION
Students will: MAKING • Learn the engineering
design cycle
• Understand that making (engineering) in the real-world is analogous to computer programming in the digital world
• Explore engineering
disciplines, emphasizing civil, mechanical, electrical, and aerospace
• Appreciate that making
(engineering) is a creative enterprise that impacts humanity in the real world
• When presented a problem: • Discuss background
information
• Follow a design plan • Draw design blueprints
by hand
Strategies for: MAKING • Addressing solvable
problems
• Following an engineering design plan
• Making and testing
prototypes
• Collaborating effectively with peers on group projects
• Developing perseverance
and self-efficacy
• Contributing to local and global engineering efforts
• Publicly sharing work
productions
Use of: MAKING • Whole group instruction
• Videos and guest experts
• Demonstration and
discussion of model projects
• Collaborative pairs
• Group projects
• Independent work time with support from instructors and peers
• Modeling expectations
• Differentiation through
creative expression – students develop designs of personal meaning
• Differentiation through
making skill – students add levels and increase code complexity according to ability
Use of: MAKING • Self-reflection and
evaluation
• Informal assessment of progress, conducted daily
• Final project completion as
evaluated at the end of each project
• Participation and
engagement as evaluated on scale of 1-4, conducted daily
• Peer comments, provided in
face-to-face discussion
Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Technology (Coding and Making) Division: Lower School LEARNING OBJECTIVES
SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL
TECHNIQUES EVALUATION
• Build and test a design prototype using a variety of age-appropriate materials and tools
• Evaluate constructed
artifacts and suggest modifications
• Troubleshooting – independently, with instructor support, and with peer support
• Sharing face-to-face in class
Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Hebrew/Judaics Division: Lower School
LEARNING OBJECTIVES SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL
TECHNIQUES EVALUATION
Students will:
• Introduce themselves
• Know the days of the week and what activities we do during the day
• Recognize all the Hebrew alphabet and the sounds of the letters
• Study different cities/places in Israel
• Understand the stories from the Torah by learning the theme, and the characters
Strategies for:
• Active listening
• Identifying main idea
• Summarizing
• Giving oral presentations
• Comprehension
• Working in groups or individually
• Building vocabulary
• Creating sentences
• Asking and answering questions
• Use Hebrew vocabulary
Use of:
• Story readings
• Discussions: pairs, groups, class
• Cooperative group work (acting out)
• Relating literature of life with parallel situations
• Completing creative projects
Use of:
• Short answer, listening, speaking assessments
• Observations
• Group work
• Oral presentation
• Daily class assignments and discussions
Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Art Division: Lower School LEARNING OBJECTIVES
SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL
TECHNIQUES EVALUATION
Students will:
• Recognize simple concrete visual images
• Identify characteristics and expressive features (elements/principles) in art work
• Use age-appropriate vocabulary to analyze and evaluate works of art
• Use different media, techniques, tools and materials appropriately
• Develop and use age-appropriate craftsmanship
Strategies for:
• Using crayons, markers, oil and soft pastels to draw
• Using tempera and watercolor to paint
• Work with water based clay
• Create three dimensional work from paper mache
Use of:
• Individual projects
• Student-created Judaic art projects
• Participation in art contests
• Art displays
• Class discussions
Use of:
• Assessments will be based on students’ effort and participation, not on skill level
Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Physical Education Division: Lower School
LEARNING OBJECTIVES SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES
EVALUATION
Students will:
• Develop foundation movements through given sports (basketball, soccer, whiffle ball, swim, hockey, volleyball, tennis, and large group games)
• Understand spatial awareness and personal space
• Develop gross and fine
motor skills through movement
• Gain an understanding of teamwork and fair play (RUACH)
• Learn rules of various sports and games
• Health and Wellness
Strategies for:
• Understanding different types of exercises
• Working individually and in groups
• Development functional skills through movement
• Develop hand-eye coordination through throwing and catching
• Adapt to different situations during “game play”
• Emphasis sportsmanship
and social/emotional development
• Develop healthy lifestyle
habits
Use of:
• Teacher demonstration
• Handouts
• Reflection
• Videos
• Class Discussions
• Monthly health classes
Use of:
• Fitness Units
• Demonstration
• Participation and Effort
• Observing good sportsmanship