2nd Trimester Curriculum

Religion:

· Advent

· God chooses Mary

· Christmas

· God the Father gives us Jesus

· Jesus grew up in Nazareth

· Jesus teaches and helps us

· God helps us to discover

· Jesus wants us to love

· We learn about God with our families

· We learn about God with our friends

Math:

· Identify and make groups with as many as, more, or fewer objects.

· Identify, show, and draw groups through 10 objects.

· Use ordinal numbers first through tenth to identify position.

· Solve problems by using a map.

· Identify, show, and draw groups of 11 to 31.

· Compare and order numbers up to 31

· Estimate groups using benchmarks of 10, 20, and 30

· Identify and count numbers to 100

· Explore tens and ones

· Skip count by 2s, 5s, and 10s

· Sequence events

Reading:

· Develop oral language.

· Develop phonological awareness.

· Practice comprehension skills: main idea, realism and fantasy, sequence, cause and effect, and plot.

· Sound discrimination and oral blending

· Consonants

· Verbs and sentences

· Verbs that add –s

· Short o

Phonics:

· Literature Introduction to initial l, d, c, n, g, w

· Initial l, d, c

· Initial n, g, w

· Reviewing initial n, g, w; Final /n/ and /g/.

· Reviewing initial l, d, c

· Reading High-Frequency Words (I-can-be-a).

· Literature Introduction to Initial p, r, k, j, q(u), v, y, z.

· Reading high- frequency words (Do-like-you-with).

· Initial p, r, k, j

· Reviewing initial p, r, k, j

· Final p

· Initial q(u), v, y, z

· Final x

· Writing initial p, r, k, j, q(u), v, y, z in context

Science:

1. Earth Science

· Our land, water, and air.

· Weather and Season

2. Physical Science

· Matter

Social Studies:

1. Our Big Book of Work

· Jobs

· Jobs Then and Now

· Earning money

· Using money

· Making Choices

· Needs and Wants

· Needs/Food

· Needs/Clothing

· Needs/Shelter

· From Here to There

2. Our Big Book of Earth

· Weather

· Seasons

· Forests

· Plains

· Mountains

· Oceans

· United States Map

· World Map

· Globe