Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Reading/Phonics/Grammar/Vocabulary Division: Lower School    

LEARNING OBJECTIVES SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES

EVALUATION

Students will: • Participate in daily formal

reading

• Identify story elements including plot, summary, characters, problem, solution

• Review of letters, sounds,

blends, vowels, CVC words

• Introduction to digraphs, double consonants

• Understanding of multi-

syllable words

• Introduction to nouns, verbs and adjectives

• Introduction to vocabulary and grammar skills

Strategies for:

• Decoding and reading text

• Following directions

• Independent learning

• Leveled reading groups

• Memory skills

• Generate and respond to questions

Use of: • Games - phonics and

reading

• Songs

• Art/Drawing

• Manipulatives

• Technology/Smartboard

• RAZ kids

• Leveled readers

• Guided readers

• Starfall

• Abc-ya site

• Sound and spell

Use of: • Observation

• Homework

• Classwork

• Daily 5

• Meet with the teacher

• Verbal discussions and

check ins

• Phonics games and class challenges

• Reading assessments

Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Reading/Phonics/Grammar/Vocabulary Division: Lower School  

     

• Review of and continued instruction of sight words

• Writer Workshop - Lucy Calkins

• Explode the Code and Wordly Wise series

Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Writing Division: Lower School      

     

LEARNING OBJECTIVES SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES

EVALUATION

Students will: • Begin to demonstrate that

writing has meaning by using pictures, letters and words to convey ideas

• Begin to strengthen beginning writing skills so students become more confident and independent writers.

Strategies for: • Use of a word wall

• Printing and proper

formation of letters

• Handwriting

• Beginning creative writing

• Discussions and exchange of ideas to include in a story

• Editing skills

Use of: • Technology through

interactive games

• Graphic Organizers

• Word Webs

• Writing

• Sentence strips

• Modeling

• ABC Order

• Introduction and appreciation of different forms of writing

• Smartboard Games

Use of: • Observation

• Centers

• Independent Work

• One to one teacher

evaluations

• Evaluation of classwork and homework

• Games

• Kindergarten Writing

Rubric

Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Math Division: Lower School    

LEARNING OBJECTIVES SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES

EVALUATION

Students will: • Skip count by ones, twos,

fives and tens

• Identify ordinal position to tenths

• Master all basic addition

and subtraction facts to 18 and learn the doubles

• Measuring using inches

feet, and centimeters

• Add coins

• Draw polygons

• Observe information from real graphs, pictographs, and bar graphs

• Fluently compose and

decompose numbers to 10

Strategies for: • Multi-sensory activities

• Count and read money

• Add and subtract

• Read pictographs and

construct

• Identify patterns in a sequence

• Write fact families

• Write the doubles

• Read and draw graphs

• Construct figures

Use of: • Manipulatives

• Math Meeting

• Smartboard

• Technology

• Math games

• Linking cubes

• Patterning blocks

• Flash cards

• Geoboards

• Store items

• Coins

• Work mats

Use of: • Guided Practice

• Timed Tests and basic facts

tests

• Assessments every tenth lesson

• Hands on activities

• Observation

• Share/Pair

• Formative Assessments

• Summative Assessments

• Discussions

• Star of the Day

Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Math Division: Lower School  

LEARNING OBJECTIVES SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES

EVALUATION

• Group and count objects by tens, fives, and twos

• Demonstrate the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction by undoing an addition problem with subtraction and vice versa

• Add three or more one-digit

numbers using the commutative and associative properties of addition

• Thermometers

   

Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Social Studies Division: Lower School  

LEARNING OBJECTIVES SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES

EVALUATION

Students will: • Investigate our community,

family, city and state

• Learn about holidays and holiday customs in other countries

• Compare and contrast American and Israeli custom

• Learn the importance of

rules, procedures and consequences in school environment

• Discuss the importance of

caring for our Earth and environment

• Learn about beginning map skills and geography

• Discuss character building

Strategies for: • Gaining understand

through looking at text and pictures

• Building vocabulary and understanding

• Learning about

responsibility, honesty, attentiveness and self control

Use of: • Technology through

interactive games

• Literature

• Art

• Writing

• Use of atlas and globes

• Games and center activities

• Field trips

• Guest speakers

• Brainpop Jr.

• Smartboard Games

Use of: • Observation

• Group Discussion

• Independent Work

• Summative assessments

• Formative assessments

• Classwork

• Games

 

Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Science Division: Lower School    LEARNING OBJECTIVES

SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL

TECHNIQUES EVALUATION

Students will: Animals Two By Two FOSS Kit

• Students will have close

and personal interaction with some common land and water animals

• Appropriate classroom habitats are established, and students learn to care for the animals

Materials and Motion FOSS Kit

• Students come to understand that humans use natural resources for everything they do and that people affect the world around them

• Students use those materials to engineer structures, applying physical science core ideas of energy transfer

Strategies for:

• Making observations

• Forming a question

• Making a prediction/hypothesis

• Conducting an experiment/investigation

• Collecting and recording data

• Analyzing information

• Reporting results

• Design/build equipment and objects

• Measuring

• Following science lab safety rules

• Working cooperatively with a partner and in a small group

Use of: Animals Two By Two

• (Earth Science) - Full Option Science System (FOSS) Kit

Materials and Motion • (Physical Science) - Full

Option Science System (FOSS) Kit

Trees and Weather

• (Earth Science) – Full Option Science System (FOSS) Kit

FOSS Science

• Stories/Resource Books and Online activities

• Individual, partner and

small group investigations

• Taking FOSS Outdoors

• Teacher Demonstrations

• Einstein Challenges

Use of:

• Student Science Notebooks

• FOSS Assessments

• Teacher Observation

• Student Reflection

• Student Rubrics

Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Science Division: Lower School    LEARNING OBJECTIVES

SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL

TECHNIQUES EVALUATION

Trees and Weather FOSS Kit

• Students will have solid experiences to help them develop an understanding of what plants (and animals) need to survive and the relationship between their needs and where they live

• By monitoring local weather, students experience the patterns and variations in weather and come to understand the importance of weather forecasts to prepare for severe weather

• Keeping a science notebook

• Presenting to peers/class

• Obtain information from photographs

• Identify patterns

• Identify cause and effect

• Build/interact with models

• Lower School Garden

 

Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Technology (Coding and Making) Division: Lower School  LEARNING OBJECTIVES

SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL

TECHNIQUES EVALUATION

Students will: CODING • Employ algorithmic

thinking to transform an idea into a computer program

• Use graphics libraries to add objects and backgrounds to programs

• Develop multiple program types: animations and toys

• Code and debug computer programs, as follows:

• Set object heading and

motion in programs

• Create user interaction via mouse actions

• Create iteration (loops)

• Sense and respond to a collision between objects

Strategies for: CODING • Solving problems

algorithmically

• Using graphics and audio in a computer program

• Conceptualizing and coding flow and execution in a computer program

• Troubleshooting and debugging programs

• Persevering through challenges that arise in the programming process

• Demonstrating fluidity in performing common programming tasks: creating motion, playing sounds

• Collaborating effectively with peers on group projects

Use of: CODING • CS Unplugged activities for

conceptual development of key concepts (searching, sorting, etc.)

Use of the Foos and Scratch Jr. platforms for: • Whole group instruction

• Demonstration and

discussion of missions and model projects

• Collaborative pairs

• Independent work time with

support from instructors and peers

• Modeling expectations

• Differentiation through

creative expression – students modify and adapt “cover story” for underlying code

Use of: CODING • Self-reflection and

evaluation

• Informal assessment of progress, conducted daily

• Final project completion as

evaluated at the end of each project

• Participation and

engagement as evaluated on scale of 1-4, conducted daily

Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Technology (Coding and Making) Division: Lower School  LEARNING OBJECTIVES

SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL

TECHNIQUES EVALUATION

• Sense and respond to environment (e.g., color under sprite)

• Code simple conditionals

• Incorporate music and sounds effects

• Differentiation through programming skill –students increase code complexity according to ability

• Troubleshooting –

independently, with instructor support and with peer support

• Online sharing

Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Technology (Coding and Making) Division: Lower School  LEARNING OBJECTIVES

SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL

TECHNIQUES EVALUATION

Students will: MAKING • Learn the engineering

design cycle

• Understand that making (engineering) in the real-world is analogous to computer programming in the digital world

• Explore engineering

disciplines, emphasizing civil, mechanical, electrical, and aerospace

• Appreciate that making

(engineering) is a creative enterprise that impacts humanity in the real world

• When presented a problem: • Discuss background

information

• Follow a design plan • Draw design blueprints

by hand

Strategies for: MAKING • Addressing solvable

problems

• Following an engineering design plan

• Making and testing

prototypes

• Collaborating effectively with peers on group projects

• Developing perseverance

and self-efficacy

• Contributing to local and global engineering efforts

• Publicly sharing work

productions

Use of: MAKING • Whole group instruction

• Videos and guest experts

• Demonstration and

discussion of model projects

• Collaborative pairs

• Group projects

• Independent work time with support from instructors and peers

• Modeling expectations

• Differentiation through

creative expression – students develop designs of personal meaning

• Differentiation through

making skill – students add levels and increase code complexity according to ability

Use of: MAKING • Self-reflection and

evaluation

• Informal assessment of progress, conducted daily

• Final project completion as

evaluated at the end of each project

• Participation and

engagement as evaluated on scale of 1-4, conducted daily

• Peer comments, provided in

face-to-face discussion

Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Technology (Coding and Making) Division: Lower School  LEARNING OBJECTIVES

SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL

TECHNIQUES EVALUATION

• Build and test a design prototype using a variety of age-appropriate materials and tools

• Evaluate constructed

artifacts and suggest modifications

• Troubleshooting – independently, with instructor support, and with peer support

• Sharing face-to-face in class

 

Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Hebrew/Judaics Division: Lower School

LEARNING OBJECTIVES SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL

TECHNIQUES EVALUATION

Students will:

• Introduce themselves

• Know the days of the week and what activities we do during the day

• Recognize all the Hebrew alphabet and the sounds of the letters

• Study different cities/places in Israel

• Understand the stories from the Torah by learning the theme, and the characters

Strategies for:

• Active listening

• Identifying main idea

• Summarizing

• Giving oral presentations

• Comprehension

• Working in groups or individually

• Building vocabulary

• Creating sentences

• Asking and answering questions

• Use Hebrew vocabulary

Use of:

• Story readings

• Discussions: pairs, groups, class

• Cooperative group work (acting out)

• Relating literature of life with parallel situations

• Completing creative projects

Use of:

• Short answer, listening, speaking assessments

• Observations

• Group work

• Oral presentation

• Daily class assignments and discussions

Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Art Division: Lower School  LEARNING OBJECTIVES

SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL

TECHNIQUES EVALUATION

Students will:

• Recognize simple concrete visual images

• Identify characteristics and expressive features (elements/principles) in art work

• Use age-appropriate vocabulary to analyze and evaluate works of art

• Use different media, techniques, tools and materials appropriately

• Develop and use age-appropriate craftsmanship

Strategies for:

• Using crayons, markers, oil and soft pastels to draw

• Using tempera and watercolor to paint

• Work with water based clay

• Create three dimensional work from paper mache

Use of:

• Individual projects

• Student-created Judaic art projects

• Participation in art contests

• Art displays

• Class discussions

Use of:

• Assessments will be based on students’ effort and participation, not on skill level

 

Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Physical Education Division: Lower School  

       

LEARNING OBJECTIVES SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES

EVALUATION

Students will:

• Develop foundation movements through given sports (basketball, soccer, whiffle ball, swim, hockey, volleyball, tennis, and large group games)

• Understand spatial awareness and personal space

• Develop gross and fine

motor skills through movement

• Gain an understanding of teamwork and fair play (RUACH)

• Learn rules of various sports and games

• Health and Wellness

Strategies for:

• Understanding different types of exercises

• Working individually and in groups

• Development functional skills through movement

• Develop hand-eye coordination through throwing and catching

• Adapt to different situations during “game play”

• Emphasis sportsmanship

and social/emotional development

• Develop healthy lifestyle

habits

Use of:

• Teacher demonstration

• Handouts

• Reflection

• Videos

• Class Discussions

• Monthly health classes

Use of:

• Fitness Units

• Demonstration

• Participation and Effort

• Observing good sportsmanship