Unit Learning Goals

STEM

Children will:

  • Understand that people and animals live in many different kinds of homes
  • Learn that different materials are used for making different kinds of structures and different parts of structures
  • Explore different tools and materials used in building structures
  • Begin to understand that planning and designing a structure are important steps to building a strong and stable structure
  • Understand that tools and machines used for specific purposes help people do things faster or more easily
  • Begin to learn that some materials are natural resources and some are man-made
  • Begin to understand how an environment or location can determine materials available for use
  • Understand that they can measure using nonstandard measurement tools
  • Identify and name two-dimensional shapes in buildings
  • Build their own houses, towers, and bridges out of various different materials
  • Be introduced to the concept of construction as they listen to read-aloud stories and texts and watch videos
  • Continue to compare and categorize things by their properties and characteristics
  • Make predictions based on their observations
  • Record, share, and discuss their observations

ELA

Children will:

  • Recognize, match, and form uppercase and lowercase “Bb,” “Hh,” “Tt,” and “Xx” (Alphabet Knowledge)
  • Make and confirm predictions using background knowledge and context clues (Comprehension)
  • Recall and retell details in the order they happen in a text (Comprehension)
  • Predict cause and effect (Comprehension)
  • Ask questions about unfamiliar words in a story or text (Comprehension)
  • Make connections (Comprehension)
  • Understand that sentences are made up of words (Concepts of Print)
  • Recognize that text is read from left to right (Concepts of Print)
  • Understand the differences between fantasy and reality in a story (Genre)
  • Compare versions of a folktale (Genre)
  • Understand and follow steps in a process (Listening and Speaking)
  • Identify beginning sounds (/b/, /h/, /t/, and /x/) (Phonological Awareness)
  • Identify ending sounds in words (Phonological Awareness)
  • Listen and produce rhyming words (Phonological Awareness)
  • Recite and produce alliterative sentences (Phonological Awareness)
  • Listen to, develop an understanding of meaning, and use new concept vocabulary words about building structures, such as: balance, blueprint, build, building, carpenter, flat, high, material, roof, strong, stronger, surface, tools, wall structure, and weight (Vocabulary)

SOCIAL EMOTIONAL

Children will:

  • Initiate and participate in multi-exchange discussions
  • Express their own needs, wants, feelings, thoughts, ideas, and opinions
  • Begin to initiate, organize, and participate in independent activities
  • Seek answers to questions
  • Continue to sustain attention to personally chosen or routine tasks until they are completed
  • Begin to understand character traits such as honesty, kindness, fairness, trustworthiness, and personal responsibility
  • Show improvement in taking care of and managing classroom materials
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