Essential Literature (Kindergarten)

Kindergarten (overview)

Life Science

Recognizes living things are made up of smaller parts (stems, leaves, roots, arms, wings, and legs)

  • Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree (Living Things-Wood)
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Living Things)
  • The Rainbow Fish (Living Things-Animals 2 x 2)

Realizes organisms use their senses to interact with their environment

  • The Mitten(Living Things)
  • Brown Bear, Brown Bear(Living Things)
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar(Living Things)
  • The Rainbow Fish(Animals 2 x 2)
  • The Snowy Day(Living Things)

Recognizes living things have features that help them survive in different environments

  • Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree
  • The Mitten
  • The Rainbow Fish
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Earth Science

Recognizes and identifies different objects that appear in the day and nighttime sky

  • Goodnight Moon
  • The Mitten
  • The Snowy Day
  • Corduroy
  • My First Mother Goose (My Moon Sees Me; Hey, Diddle-Diddle)

Recognizes that there are predictable patterns which occur within the universe

  • The Wind Blew
  • Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  • Good Night, Moon

Recognizes changes in weather occur from day to day and over seasons affecting the earth and its inhabitants

  • The Wind Blew
  • Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree
  • The Snowy Day
  • The Mitten

Understands weather is affected by temperature, precipitation, wind conditions and can be measured with tools and instruments

  • The Wind Blew
  • The Snowy Day
  • The Mitten

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Life Cycles (small parts)

Features of living things (build a cocoon)

Earth-land, air, water

Observable properties (caterpillar, cocoon, butterfly)

Sun (day, night, days of the week, temperature, seasons)

Senses (building the cocoon)

Compare/contrast (foods [color, size, shape], butterfly and caterpillar)

Nutrition

Patterns

Caps for SaleEsphyr Slobodkina

*Collects and analyzes data: creates and displays appropriate charts, graphs, and diagrams with teacher assistance.

*Describe objects according to simple properties: (color, size, shape, weight, texture, flexibility, attraction to magnets, floating/sinking, solid/liquid.)

The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats

Physical Science-*Identifies the 5 senses that humans use to interact with their environment.

Earth Science-*Recognizes changes in weather occur from day to day and over seasons, affecting the earth.

The Wind Blew Pat Hutchins

*Identify weather conditions (graphing, measure rain, causes).

The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree Gail Gibbons

*The five senses (visit apple orchard, taste different apples, cook and taste again). *Seasons-how apples change over time (water and sun). Trees change through the year.

Rainbow Fish Marcus Pfister

*Describes objects according to simple properties

*Observes and describes similarities and differences in the appearance and behavior of plants and animals according to their environment.

The Mitten Jan Brett

*Recognizes seasons, changes in weather-how this affects the earth and its inhabitants. *Clothing choices-according to weather

*Features that help animals survive in different environments. *Animals use their senses to interact with their environments.

Applications: *Create weather bear at a center to dress in the appropriate clothing. *Create a book of seasons with various writing activities.

*Compare and contrast differences in different animals.