August/September

Me (Family)/School/Community
Safety

K.8 The student will demonstrate that being a good citizen involves

• taking turns and sharing;
• taking responsibility for certain classroom chores;
• taking care of personal belongings and respecting what belongs to others;
• following rules and understanding the consequence of breaking rules;
• practicing honesty, self-control, and kindness to others.

Nursery Rhymes

Bears

K.1 The student will demonstrate growth in the use of oral language.

• Listen to a variety of literary forms, including stories and poems.
• Participate in choral speaking and recite short poems, rhymes, songs, and stories with repeated patterns.
• Participate in creative dramatics.
• Begin to discriminate between spoken sentences, words, and syllables.
• Recognize rhyming words.
• Generate rhyming words in a rhyming pattern.

K.3 The student will build oral communication skills.

• Begin to follow implicit rules for conversation, including taking turns and staying on topic.
• Express ideas and needs in complete sentences.
• Begin to use voice level, phrasing, and intonation appropriate for language situation.
• Listen and speak in informal conversations with peers and adults.
• Begin to initiate conversations.
• Participate in discussions about books and specific topics.

K.8 The student will demonstrate comprehension of fiction and nonfiction.

• Use pictures to make predictions about content.
• Retell familiar stories, using beginning, middle, and end.
• Discuss characters, setting, and events.
• Use story language in discussions and retellings.
• Identify what an author does and what an illustrator does.
• Identify the topics of nonfiction selections.