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Kindergarten syllabus
FUNDATIONS - ELA
UNIT 1
- Letter-Keyword Sounds for consonants
- Letter-Keyword Sounds for vowels
- Letter Formation for lowercase letters A-Z
- Sound recognition: consonants and short vowels
- Print and word awareness
- Rhyming
- Phonemic awareness: initial and final sounds
- Story retelling
- Beginning composition Skills
- Fluency/phrasing with echo and choral reading
UNIT 2
- Phonemic Awareness skills: blending, segmenting, and manipulation of sounds
- Blending and reading three-sound short vowel words.
- Story prediction
- Alphabetical Order
- Uppercase letter formation
UNIT 3
- Phonemic awareness skills: blending, segmenting, and manipulation of sounds.
- Blending sounds in nonsense CVC words.
- Segmenting and spelling three-sound short vowel words.
- Distinguish long and short vowel sounds.
- Narrative story form: character, setting, main events.
- Fluency and phrasing with echo and choral reading.
- Beginning composition skills.
- High frequency words (trick words)
UNIT 4
- Phoneme segmentation
- Concept of consonant digraph, keywords and sounds: ch,ck, sh, th, wh.
- Decoding three-sound words with digraphs.
- Spelling three-sound words with digraphs.
- Spelling of ck at end of words.
- Narrative story form: character, setting, main events.
UNIT 5
- Sentence structure.
- Sentence dictation.
- Narrative fiction vs. informational books.
History: The Story of Civilization – Ancient Egypt
- Chapter 1: The Dawn of Civilization
- Chapter 2: The Gift of the Nile
- Chapter 3: Egypt in the Pyramid Age
- Chapter 4: The Land Between Two Rivers
- Chapter 5: Egyptian Empires
- Chapter 6: Peoples of the Levant
- Chapter 7: The God of Israel
- Chapter 8: The Kingdom of David
- Chapter 9: The Bearded Kings of the North
Latin: School Song Latin
- Chapter 1: Greeting Words
- Chapter 2: Making Friends
- Chapter 3: How Are You?
- Chapter 4: Review
- Chapter 4: Family Members
- Chapter 6: People
- Chapter 7: Classroom Items
- Chapter 8: Household Items
- Chapter 9: Review
- Chapter 10: Classroom Commands
- Chapter 11: More Classroom Commands
- Chapter 12 Manners
- Chapter 13 Review
- Chapter 14 Pets
- Chapter 15 Animals
- Chapter 16 Christmas Words
- Chapter 17 More Christmas Words
- Chapter 18 Review
- Chapter 19 The Body
- Chapter 20 The Face
- Chapter 21 Food Words
- Chapter 22 More Food Words
- Chapter 23 Review
- Chapter 24 Weather
- Chapter 25 The Seasons
- Chapter 26 The Sky
- Chapter 27 Review
- Chapter 28 Water Words
- Chapter 29 Gardening
- Chapter 30 Playing Outdoors
- Chapter 31 Review
Math: Singapore – Dimensions
Chapter 1 Match, Sort, and Classify:
- Lesson 1 – Left and Right
- Lesson 2 – Same and Similar
- Lesson 3 – Look for One That is Different
- Lesson 4 – How Does it Feel?
- Lesson 5 – Math the Things That Go Together
- Lesson 6 – Sort
- Lesson 7 – Practice
Accompanying Chapter storybooks:
- Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel
- The Button Box by Margarette S. Reid
- Wacky Wednesday by Dr. Seuss
- Nothing Like a Puffin by Sue Soltis
- Two Eggs, Please by Sarah Weeks
- Chapter 2 Numbers to 5
  
  Lesson 1 – Count to 5
  
  Lesson 2 – Count Things Up to 5
  
  Lesson 3 – Recognize the Numbers 1 to 3
  
  Lesson 4 – Recognize the Numbers 4 and 5
  
  Lesson 5 – Count and Match
  
  Lesson 6 – Write the Numbers 1 and 2
  
  Lesson 7 – Write the Number 3
  
  Lesson 8 – Write the Number 4
  
  Lesson 9 – Trace and Write 1 to 5
  
  Lesson 10 – Zero
  
  Lesson 11 – Picture Graphs
  
  Lesson 12 – Practice
Accompanying Chapter storybooks:
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow
- Five Little Ducklings by Sally Hopgood
- The Five Chinese Brothers by Claire Huchet Bishop
- Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by James Dean and Eric Litwin
- One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
- The Five Senses by Hervé Tullet
- Chapter 3 Numbers to 10:
  
  Lesson 1 – Count 1 to 10
  
  Lesson 2 – Count up to 7 Things
  
  Lesson 3 – Count up to 9 Things
  
  Lesson 4 – Counting Up to 10 Things – Part 1
  
  Lesson 5 – Counting Up to 10 Things – Part 2
  
  Lesson 6 – Recognize the Numbers 6 to 10
  
  Lesson 7 – Write the Numbers 6 and 7
  
  Lesson 8 – Write the Numbers 8, 9, and 10
  
  Lesson 9 – Write the Numbers 6 to 10
  
  Lesson 10 – Count and Write the Numbers 1 to 10
  
  Lesson 11 – Ordinal Positions
  
  Lesson 12 – One More Than
  
  Lesson 13 – Practice
Accompanying Chapter storybooks:
- Ten Black Dots
  
  Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On
  
  Zero Is the Leaves on the Tree
  
  My Little Sister Ate One Hare
  
  Ten Apples Up On Top!
  
  Count the Ways, Little Brown Bear
  
  Albert the Muffin-Maker
  
  Museum 123
  
  Mouse Count
- Chapter 4 Shapes and Solids
  
  Lesson 1 – Curved or Flat
  
  Lesson 2 – Solid Shapes
  
  Lesson 3 – Closed Shapes
  
  Lesson 4 – Rectangles
  
  Lesson 5 – Squares
  
  Lesson 6 – Circles and Triangles
  
  Lesson 7 – Where is it?
  
  Lesson 8 – Hexagons
  
  Lesson 9 – Sizes and Shapes
  
  Lesson 10 – Combine Shapes
  
  Lesson 11 – Graphs
  
  Lesson 12 – Practice
Accompanying Chapter Storybooks:
- The Shape Of Things by Dayle Ann Dodds
- Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, & Spheres by Tana Hoban
- Shapes, Shapes, Shapes by Tana Hoban
- Three Pigs, One Wolf, and Seven Magic Shapes by Grace Maccarone
- Shape by Shape by Suse MacDonald
- I Spy Shapes in Art by Lucy Micklethwait
- Skippyjon Jones Shape Up by Judy Schachner
- Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh
- The Shape of Me and Other Stuff by Dr. Seuss
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Chapter 5 Compare Height, Length, Weight, and Capacity
- Lesson 1 – Comparing Height
- Lesson 2 – Comparing Length
- Lesson 3 – Height and Length – part 1
- Lesson 4 – Height and Length – part 2
- Lesson 5 – Weight – part 1
- Lesson 6 - Weight – part 2
- Lesson 7 – Weight – part 3
- Lesson 8 – Capacity – part 1
- Lesson 9 – Capacity – part 2
- Lesson 10 – Practice
Accompanying Chapter Storybooks
- Tall by Jez Alborough
- Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen
- Actual Size by Steve Jenkins
- Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
- How Deep is the Sea? by Anna Milbourne
- How High is the Sky? by Anna Milbourne
- Mighty Maddie by Stuart J. Murphy
- How Big is a Foot? by Rolf Myller
- Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss
- Drat That Fat Cat! by Pat Thomson
- Balancing Act by Ellen Stoll Walsh
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- Chapter 6 Comparing Numbers Within 10
  
  Lesson 1 - Same and More
  
  Lesson 2 – More and Fewer
  
  Lesson 3 – More and Less
  
  Lesson 4 – Practice Part 1
  
  Lesson 5 – Practice Part 2
Accompanying Chapter Storybooks
- More, Fewer, Less by Tana Hoban
  
  Just Enough Carrots by Stuart J. Murphy
  
  Peg + Cat: The Race Car Problem by Jennifer Oxley and Billy Aronson
Religion:
Theology of The Body
- Express that creation is a gift from God who is loving
- Discuss that it is unique to the human person to care for creation
- Recognize that the human person has a special relationship with God in comparison to animals.
- Discuss how man images the communion of God; three persons in one God.
- Compare the special dignity of man’s work to the activity of animals.
Spirit of Truth –
Unit 1: God Made Everything Good
- Lesson 1: We Believe.
- Lesson 2: We Believe in One God.
- Lesson 3: God is a Trinity.
- Lesson 4: God is Love and Loves Us.
- Lesson 5: God Created All Things.
- Lesson 6: God Made Us in His Image.
- Lesson 7: God Calls Us to Love Him and Each Other.
- Lesson 8: We Were Born to Be with God in Heaven.
Unit 2: God Always Loves Us
- Lesson 1: Adam and Eve and Original Sin
- Lesson 2: We Sin When We Fail to Love God and Each Other
- Lesson 3: Baptism Makes Us Member’s of God’s Family
Unit 3: Jesus is God’s Son
- Lesson 1: Jesus Is the Son of God
- Lesson 2: The Incarnation
- Lesson 3: Mary is Jesus’ Mother
- Lesson 4: The Annunciation
- Lesson 5: The Birth of Jesus and the Three Wise Men
- Lesson 6: The Presentation in the Temple
- Lesson 7: The Finding in the Temple
Unit 4: Jesus Teaches Us How to Live
- Lesson 1: Jesus was Baptized
- Lesson 2: The Wedding at Cana
- Lesson 3: Jesus Had Followers
- Lesson 4: Jesus Teaches Us to Love Him and Each Other
- Lesson 5: Jesus Teaches Us to Be Happy
- Lesson 6: Jesus Teaches Us to Be Holy
- Lesson 7: Jesus Told Parables
- Lesson 8: Jesus Performed Miracles
- Lesson 9: Jesus Taught us How to Pray
- Lesson 10: Jesus Founded the Church
Unit 5: Jesus is Our Savior
- Lesson 1: Jesus Gave Us the Eucharist at the Last Supper
- Lesson 2 Jesus Died on the Cross to Save Us from Sin
- Lesson 3 Jesus Rose From the Dead
- Lesson 4 Lent
- Lesson 5 Easter
- Lesson 6 Jesus Ascended into Heaven
Unit 6 The Holy Spirit and the Church
- Lesson 1 Jesus Sent the Holy Spirit
- Lesson 2 The Holy Spirit Guides Us and Makes Us Holy
- Lesson 3 The Church Is God’s House
- Lesson 4 The Sacraments
- Lesson 5 Bishops and Priests
Unit 7 God Wants Us to Be Holy
- Lesson 1 The Saints
- Lesson 2 We Are All Called to Be Saints
- Lesson 3 The Ten Commandments
- Lesson 4 Prayer
Science: Nature Studies
UNIT 1: Intro to Chemistry
- Week 1 - Solids and Liquids
- Week 2 – Solutions
- Week 3 – Density
- Week 4 – Crystals
- Week 5 – Colors
- Week 6 – Freezing
UNIT 2: Intro to Physics
- Week 1 – Gravity
- Week 2 – Magnets
- Week 3 – Inclined Planes
- Week 4 – Static Electricity
- Week 5 – Pulleys
- Week 6 – Light
UNIT 3: Intro to Geology
- Week 1 – Fossils
- Week 2 – Rocks
- Week 3 – Metamorphic Rock
- Week 4 – Volcanos
- Week 5 – Sedimentary Rock
- Week 6 – Compass
UNIT 4: Intro to Meteorology
- Week 1 – The Sun
- Week 2 – The Water Cycle
- Week 3 – The Seasons
- Week 4 – Wind
- Week 5 – Tornadoes
- Week 6 – Thermometer
UNIT 5: Intro To Biology
- Week 1 – Plants
- Week 2 – Flowers
- Week 3 – Seeds
- Week 4 – Leaves
- Week 5 – Stems
- Week 6 – Roots
UNIT 6: Intro to Zoology
- Week 1 – Fish
- Week 2 – Butterflies
- Week 3 – Invertebrates
- Week 4 – Mammals
- Week 5 – Reptiles
- Week 6 - Birds

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