Denton ISD Pre-K Pacing Guide

5th Six Weeks
Feb 25–April 19, 2013
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/ New District Assessments 5th six weeks
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Goals / Essential Questions / Activities
Language Arts

Sentence Skills

Students participate in games such as "Follow the Leader."
Provide two-and three-step directions for children to complete specific tasks during transitions such as clearing up and getting in line.
Ask children to recall and add details to expand their responses while engaged in group activities, such as read aloud time, show and tell, author’s chair.
Teacher demonstrates and discusses appropriate reading behaviors (starting location; left to right movement across print; return sweep; voice/print matching) on materials such as lists, menus, songs, signs, and charts (with print large enough for children to see).
Children clap while they say each other’s names.
Children recite nursery rhymes that have words that rhyme paying attention to how those words have the same sounds at the end.
Children point to or select picture/object that teacher says with a pause between onset and rime.
Children name letters in a variety of situations, helping child distinguish one letter from another, making meaningful connections for children.
Children write letters for initial sounds heard in wording written on charts, lists, daily news, etc.

Math

Pattern Skills

sense skills

Teacher incorporates counting into everyday activities, such as counting songs and physical activities.
Children count out loud starting with the number 1 and with a number other than 1.
Children play games that involve rapid responses to small sets of objects, such as using cards with 1-5 dots to play “Go Fish”.
Teacher can show briefly a set of cubes and have the children say the number represented.
Children have opportunities to play games that use numeral cards, numbered pieces, or dice with numerals 0-9.

Model simple word problems such as, “There is 1 bear in a cave. If 2 more bears walk in the cave, how many bears are in the cave altogether?”

Use fingers to show children how to put together an addition problem (holds up 2 fingers and adds 1 more finger to show 3).
Set up a row of objects and ask children to devise a story using the objects.
Demonstrate fair sharing between 2 children by dividing 1 long Tootsie Roll into smaller pieces.
Use hiding games or scavenger hunts for children to locate shapes.
Provide opportunities for children to identify shapes both provided among various shapes on table, and identified in real life settings. Teacher can compare the height of children by measuring each child on a height chart in the classroom.
Children are provided with objects of different weights to compare using a balance.

Science

Identifies, observes, and discusses objects in the sky
Identifies and describes characteristics of organisms
Describes life cycles of organisms
Recognizes, observes, and discusses the relationship of organisms to their environment

Teacher models and provides opportunities (comparing flowers, insects, and animals) and tools (hand lens) for children to make comparisons of living characteristics and non-living characteristics.
Children plan investigations of life cycles (plan a classroom or playground garden for observing seeds growing).
Children observe, discuss, and record creatures in their natural environment (fish in an aquarium, a worm or butterfly house indoors, ant farm, terrarium for snails/hermit crab, a bird or butterfly garden outdoors).
Children engage in discussions about observing various objects in the sky (clouds and their shapes; the position of the sun during recess time).
Discusses the night sky and compares the objects with the day sky.

Social Studies

differently from us?

Children paint/draw the United States flag and the Texas flag on plain paper, and discuss the features of the flags, label and display the flags.
Teacher models the Pledge of Allegiance with the children, remembering to say the words slowly and clearly.