April Kindergarten Curriculum

In the April Kindergarten Curriculum , we are talking about Spring. It is an exciting unit because it ties in many parts of the curriculum!

1. Language Arts: Spring Is Here

- Blending phonemes
- Letters: W, Y, X
- Words: play, she
- -et, -en, -ot, -ox, - ig, -at,
-an, and –it word families
- Opposites
- First letter and Last letter
- Order words
- Spring words


2. Writing:

- Capital at beginning of sentence
- End punctuation
- Journals
- Word spacing
- Match spoken words to print
- Writing sentences
- Quotation marks
- Rhymes
- Revisions in writing


3. Science / Social Studies:

- Plants and Animals


4. Math:

- Calendar Math
- Graph a Day – Yes/No
- Analyzing graphs
- 1-to-1 correspondence
- Different ways to represent numbers
- Symmetry and reflections
- Counting and sorting money
- Fractions
- Time on the hour

April homework:

1. Write and draw 4 things that start with the letter "W".
2. Write and draw 4 things that end with the letter "X". (Example: fox, box)
3. Write and draw 4 things that start with the letter "Y".
4. Write and draw 4 words from the "-et" family.
5. Write and draw 4 words from the "-en" family.
6. Write and draw 4 words that end with the letter "T".
7. Write a story using the words "First", "Next", "At last".
8. Write and draw about rhyming words.
9. Write a sentence with the word "play".
10. Write a sentence with the word "she".
11. Write and draw about plants.
12. Draw a plant and label the parts. (Example: leaf, stem)
13. Draw a picture of 1/2 a pizza. Draw a picture of 1/4 a pizza.
14. Draw 8 cents using pennies and nickels.
15. Write and draw about something you like.

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