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Enduring Understandings
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Essential Questions
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Sample Instructional Activities/Assessments
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Bible
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Jesus knows me and loves me.
God created the world.
God gives me friends and family.
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How do we know Jesus loves us?
Who made our world?
How can we help our family, friends, and world?
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Recognize that God loves us so much that he gave His only son to die for our sins.
Practice loving God and others, too.
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Reading
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We know how to construct meanings.
We learn how to handle and care for books.
We read stories.
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What are words for?
How do we retell a story?
How do we hold a book? Where is the title?
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Weekly reading a story book
Activities to explore literature and learning to read concepts together
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Spelling
Vocabulary
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Learn and practice twenty high-frequency words.
Study vocabulary that is integrated with daily lessons.
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Do you know what this word means?
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Identify vocabulary words in stories
Play games that use words
Practice the words in writing
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Phonics
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Understand rhymes, beginning sounds, and blends.
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What makes words rhyme?
What sound(s) does each letter signify?
How are words formed with letters and their sounds?
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Signal and say sounds
Practice pronunciation
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Writing
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Drawing conveys meanings.
Letters and words convey writing and communicate meanings.
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Can you draw a picture to tell an idea or story?
Can you write the sounds you hear to tell a story?
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Drawing and writing responses to every weekly story
Shared writing
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Mathematics
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Learn numbers 1-100.
Use addition and subtraction concepts and numbers.
Introduce patterns, graphs, time, and money.
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Can you count to 100?
What does a number mean?
How do you form groups?
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Count objects
Form groups, add and subtract with manipulatives
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Science
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God made our world, the weather and seasons, all animals, and day and night.
Identify and learn why things sink and float.
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What are the seasons?
How are animals alike and different?
What things float and sink? Why?
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Booklet of the seasons
Predict, demonstrate, and tally items that float and sink
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Social Studies
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Learn about our physical world and its inhabitants both near and far.
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Who are your friends and family?
Where do you live in the world?
What jobs do people have?
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Read story books
Draw pictures
Group activities
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Christian Conduct
Service
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We tell God’s good news to others.
Learn to be a good friend and a contributing classroom citizen.
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What does it mean to be a good friend?
How do we practice being a classroom citizen?
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Classroom meetings
Clean up after ourselves and others
Visit a rest home
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