• September/October Curriculum

     

    Reader’s Workshop

    Bend I: Reading to Learn About the World


    Bend I, Session 1: Reading the World

    Bend I, Session 2: Reading Books to Learn about the World

    Bend I, Session 3: Learning How Books Work

    Bend I, Session 4: Readers Reread

    Bend I, Session 5: Readers Read by Themselves and with Others

    Bend I, Session 6: Readers Talk about their Learning with a Partner:

    Marking “Wow” Pages

    Bend I, Session 7: Readers Notice and Learn New Ideas and New

    Words

    Bend I, Session 8: Readers Add a Pinch of their Thinking to the Page

    Bend I, Session 9: Readers Learn from Words in Books Too


    Bend II: Reading Favorite Storybooks


    Bend II, Session 1: Pictures Help!

    Bend II, Session 2: Making the Words You Read Match the Words

    on the Page

    Bend II, Session 3: Readers Use Exact Character Words

    Bend II, Session 4: If There Are a Lot of Words, There’s a Lot of Story

    Bend II, Session 5: Readers Use Special Connecting Words to Put

    Storybook Pages Together

    Bend II, Session 6: Readers Use the Repeating Parts in Books to Help

    Them Story-Tell

    Bend II, Session 7: Readers Can Point to and Read Some Words in

    Their Star Storybooks

    Bend II, Session 8: Adding Labels to the Pictures in Our Star Storybooks


    End-of-Unit Celebration

    Writer's Workshop -

    Launching Writer's Workshop

    • We are all Writers: Putting ideas on paper with pictures and words
    • Writers know that "When we are done, we have just begun".
    • Carrying on independently as writers
    • Writers call to mind what they want to say, then put that onto the page
    • Stretching out words to write them
    • Writing even Hard-to- Write ideas.
    • Turning pieces into scrolls and books
    • Planning teaching books page by age
    • Asking and answering questions to add more
    • Stretching out words to write even more sounds
    • Letters to Teachers: Making writing the best it can be 

    Math Workshop 

    Same and Different

    Match Objects

    Match Shapes 

    Match Solids

    Match Coins

    Sorting and Classifying

    Sort and Group 2D Shapes

    Sort and Group 3D Solids

    Vary the Size

    Vary the Orientation 

    Repeating Groups

    Introduce Patterns

    Patterns with Shapes and Solids

    Work Backward

    Qualitative Comparison

    Compare Rectangles 

    Compare Circles & Polygons

    Above-Below & Between

    Next To-Beside & Left-Right

    Draw & Trace Digits

    Five Frames

    Snap Cubes

    Tally Marks

    Dice Patterns Circular Arrangement