Kindergarten

Curriculum overview

Reading and sharing stories at home

 Unit 1: How do you act responsibly in a library? Active listening in the library/Book care

 Unit 2: How do you make a book? Becoming authors and illustrators

 Unit 3: What types of books do you like? How do you select books from the library?

 Unit 4: Why do people celebrate holidays? Intro to Non-Fiction

Unit 5: Comparing animals: different texts about same animal Unit 6: Making animal books Unit 7: Favorite characters: Gossie, Yoko, etc.

**Information Fluency**

 * Finds books by favorite authors using A-Z organization of picture books. (Info Fluency 1.3.1) SEE UNIT 2
 * Begins to use Dewey numbers for ABC books, 123 books, fairy tales, dinosaurs (Info Fluency 1.3.1) SEE UNIT 4
 * Finds books on own interests with assistance (Info Fluency 2.3.1 & 2.3.6) SEE UNIT 4

ELA Integration

 * **Poetry and Songs**: Start off each library session with a song or poem written on chart paper.
 * **Fiction vs. Nonfiction**(not real vs. real): Reading fun stories about animals and interesting non-fiction books about animals (Info Fluency 2.1.6)
 * Where the Wild Things Are, Cinder-eyed Cats, and The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear
 * Nonfiction titles about dinosaurs, big cats, bears, mice, and strawberries.
 * **Enjoying fiction books to wonder**: What would happen if... discussions
 * **Using non-fiction books to learn**: Asks simple questions & finds facts using bins of nonfiction books (Info Fluency 1.3.13)
 * **Study the illustration**: Wordless books; Retelling stories (Info Fluency 2.1.2, 2.3.5)
 * 1) //The Lion and the Mouse//
 * **Genre study**: Fairy tales (Info Fluency 2.1.5. 2.2.4, 2.3.2, 3.1.1)
 * 1) Same/Different across stories
 * 2) Illustrating favorites parts (Info Fluency 2.1.5, 3.1.1)
 * Author/Illustrator study (Info Fluency 2.1.6)

Technology integration

 * MS Paint : Drawing pictures of me and what I like (see below) (Info Fluency 2.2.4)
 * Online storybooks : One More Story, Tumblebooks, Bookflix
 * Online educational games: Tux Type, Learning Planet, Starfall, Playkidsgames.com
 * Favorite apps: iWriteWords, Monster at the end of the book, Numberlys, and Cinderella (Nosy Crow).

Social Studies Integration/Visual Literacy skills

 * School community: Draw pictures of people in our school community and their tools (Info Fluency 1.3.9, 1.4.1)
 * Self: Use MSPaint to draw pix of me and what I like or do. Narrate them on WMM and make an electronic picture book. . (Info Fluency 2.2.4)[[file:MS paint illustration.doc]][[file:rublicforallaboutmepoem.doc]]
 * Culture: Picture book read alouds and discussion matrix about different cultures. Example of student work.[[file:display culture K.docx]]