LRES KINDERGARTEN PACING GUIDE FOR

ALL SUBJECTS

Kindergarten Focus for Elementary Language Arts Units Kindergarten Unit 1

6-8 weeks

August 26, 2019 - October 18, 2019

Unit 2

4-6 weeks

October 21, 2019 - November 29, 2019

Unit 3

4-6 weeks

December 2, 2019 - January 24, 2020

Reading Getting Ready: Launching the Reading

Workshop

Exploring Fiction Through Characters

and Storytelling

Talking About Books: Book Discussions

and Book Talks

Metacognitive Strategies Make Connections

Monitor/Fix Up

Visualize

Monitor/Fix Up

Ask and Answer Questions

Make Inferences

Ask and Answer Questions

Determine Importance

Make Inferences

Writing Getting Ready: Launching the Writing

Workshop

Exploring Narrative Writing Writing for Readers

Kindergarten Unit 4

6-8 weeks

January 27, 2020 - March 20, 2020

Unit 5

3-4 weeks

March 23, 2020 - April 24, 2020

Unit 6

4-6 weeks

April 27, 2020 - June 5, 2020

Reading Exploring Informational Text Poetry Pulling It All Together: A Celebration of

Reading Through Author Study

Metacognitive Strategies Summarize/Synthesize

Ask and Answer Questions

Determine Importance

Visualize

Monitor/Fix Up

Make Inferences

Determine Importance

Make Connections

Summarize/ Synthesize

Writing Research Writing Descriptive Writing Pulling It All Together: A Celebration of

Writing

Prince William County Schools Kindergarten Science AND Social Studies

Suggested Pacing Guide 2019 – 2020

First Quarter All SOLs have been covered and

are located under each unit

Second Quarter All SOLs have been covered and are located under each unit

Third Quarter All SOLs located under each unit *Kindergarten at LRES was

currently in SS Unit 4.

Fourth Quarter All SOLs located under each unit *These units were not yet studied by

Kindergarten at LRES

Social Studies: suggested time frame 4 weeks

Civics Unit 1: Good Citizenship. SOL K.10, K.1

Social Studies: suggested time frame 2 weeks

Civics Unit 2: Patriotism. SOL K.11, K.1

Social Studies: suggested time frame 3-5 weeks

Economics Unit 3: Economics. SOL K.8, K.9, K.1 Geography Unit 4: Geography. SOL K.4, K.5, K.6, K.7, K.1

Social Studies: suggested time frame 4 weeks

History Unit 5: History: Community and Change over Time. SOL K.2, K.3, K.1

Science: August 26-November 1 Unit 2 Human Senses K.5, K.1

Five senses and sensory organs

Sensory descriptors

Science & Engineering Practices (infused)

Unit 3 Earth’s Natural Resources K.11, K.1

Re-use & recycle natural resources

Choices people make affect natural resources

Science & Engineering Processes (infused)

Unit 4 Properties & Importance of Water K.4, K.1

Water as a solid or a liquid

Flows downhill

Locations and Uses

Science & Engineering Practices

Science: November 6-January 24 Unit 5 Properties of Matter K.3, K.1

Color, shape, form, texture, feel

Relative size & weight

Science & Engineering Practices (infused)

Unit 6 Pushes and Pulls K.2, K.1

Pushes and pulls as forces

Effect of a push or pull on the direction of an object’s motion

Effect of strength of a push or pull on the motion of an object

Science & Engineering Practices (infused)

Science: January 28-March 27 Unit 7 Light & Shadows K.8, K.1

Sunlight warms Earth’s surfaces

How shadows are made

Temperature differences of objects in shadows

Science & Engineering Practices (infused)

Science: March 31-June 12 Unit 8 Living Things K.6a-b, K.7, K.9b-c, K.10, K.1

Things are living or nonliving

Characteristics of living things

Needs of animals

Needs of plants

Plants & animal life cycle patterns

Offspring are similar to parents

Patterns of growth and change in living things

Change in nonliving (human-made) things

Things are living or nonliving

Characteristics of living things

Needs of animals

Needs of plants

Plants & animal life cycle patterns

Offspring are similar to parents

Patterns of growth and change in living things

(infused)

Change in nonliving (human-made) things

Science & Engineering Processes (infused)

Unit 1 Natural Patterns: Weather, Seasons, & Day/Night Changes in weather, seasons and their patterns over time (K.9a-c, K.10a, c-d)

:may be taught as a discrete unit or may be integrated throughout the course of the school year by observing weather over time during daily classroom routines involving calendar study and seasonal activities. Science and Engineering practices (K.1) should be incorporated as a part of inquiry-based instruction.

Prince William County Schools Kindergarten Math

Suggested Pacing Guide August - June 2020

Comments:

Comments:

- Kindergarten is three weeks off the pacing guide in Math. This means we are currently working on the Number Sense 3 Unit so that students have a solid understanding of part-part-whole in terms of putting together and taking apart as well as story problems, counting to 100, and teen

numbers.

- Kindergarten also has a 2 week unit on “Fractions” teaching ONLY fair share or ½ and whole. This would come after our current number sense unit but before unit 8. Expectations for this unit (unit 7) are that students understand the idea of sharing halves fairly, teaching what a whole verses having to share a whole between two would look like.

After this.. Unit 8 on the March calendar should begin.