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