This unit is designed to develop foundational skills needed to prepare students for learning and making meaning of a variety of text types. The unit will provide students with opportunities to listen to and explore a variety of everyday print materials such as storybooks, poems, and informational texts to engage in interactive discussions of the messages and meaning of texts. This unit teaches students that they are readers and have a vital role in their classroom community.

Students will continue practicing routines necessary for learning:
• Working productively in the meeting area
• Working with a partner to Think-Pair- Share
• Book handling and learning about the parts of texts
• Selecting texts for independent reading
• Using everything in the classroom for reading support

 The attached Remote Learning Plan is designed for preschool students.This literacy lesson uses the story, The Three Billy Goats Gruff as a basis for comprehension and retelling activities. Anticipated lesson length is 30 minutes. The lesson includes both online and offline options. 

Join in as we look closely at parts of several different aircraft that allow them to fly and float.

Join in as we look closely at pictures of Bessie Coleman, the first licensed African American woman pilot, and explore a plane like the one she flew!

Join in as we look closely at hot air balloons and other inventions that allow people to go high above the ground into Earth's atmosphere!

Join in as we look closely at several homebuilt aircraft in order to explore their parts and determine their purposes.

Join in as we look closely at pictures to explore what life is like for the astronauts living and working on the International Space Station!

Join in as we look closely at landers and rovers built by engineers to help us better understand Mars!

Join in as we look closely at at pictures of several different planets in our Solar System!

Join in as we look closely at toys that were inspired by tools and people involved in space exploration!

Students demonstrate their letter/sound knowledge by working with name cards and sharing observations about their classmates names, giving teachers an opportunity to assess knowledge in a meaningful context.

Entender que los tornados son peligros relacionados con el clima. Entender las características de los tornados. Identificar las formas en que las personas pueden protegerse durante un tornado.

This activity teaches children six question words: who, what, when, where, why and how.

Recognize that the policies of segregation applied to every aspect of American life, including early aviation. Investigate the contributions of African American pilots to early aviation.

These lesson plans and activities were purposed and designed by Paula Turon Loren for Kindergarden English teachers in the United Kingdom. The activity is designed and differentiated for different ability groups, thus teachers can adapt the lesson to their students levels and needs. Moreover, the materials may be used and adapted for any country's specific context. 

Students will learn about similarities and differences within the classroom and with our families.

Students will learn to identify their own emotions and those of others.

Students will learn that different cultures have different ways of welcoming or greeting others.

Students will learn that welcoming the ways others are different and the same helps them feel they belong.

In this lesson using the The Tortoise and the Hare fable students will learn basic map skills.

Comprehensive literacy instruction for all students requires the use of tools and strategies that make the instruction accessible. The Unlocking Literacy for Students with Disabilities Modules will build on what you already know about literacy instruction by demonstrating how strategic tools or strategies can make literacy instruction accessible to students with complex communication needs and physical disabilities. Best practices and research-based strategies for literacy instruction, as well as K-2 English Language Arts (ELA) Common Core State Standards (CCSS), will be included throughout all modules. Universal Strategies & Technology ToolsModule 1 will equip educators and parents with foundational tools and universal strategies to improve literacy instruction for students with complex communication needs and physical disabilities.  The foundational tools and strategies will be applied within subsequent Unlocking Literacy modules.

Acompáñanos a observar de cerca los diferentes aviones hechos en casa con el fin de explorar sus partes y determinar sus propósitos.