Original drawing by
High Meadow student
Eli McClatchy
High Meadow student
Eli McClatchy
Early Education Curricula: Toddler – First Grades
2 – 3 year-old toddlers
Teacher: Molly Parker-Myers
| Units/Theme | Sept – Oct | Oct – Nov | Nov – Dec | Jan – Feb | Feb – Mar | Apr – June |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Curriculum Focus “All About Me” |
My School Friends at school/ community building, classroom routines & materials | My Family Who is in my family? | My Feelings Exploring feelings of self & others | My Family Family project | My Body How we move, hands & feet, care of self, foods we eat |
Changing & Growing: “When I was a baby” |
| Science | Apples Guinea Pig Study, planting bulbs Autumn/ change of season |
Pumpkins Leaves | Color Explora- tion Winter/ change of season |
Snow Snow exploration & observations | Fruits & Vegetables Spring/ change of season | Caterpillar/ Butterfly Study Planting seeds Soil |
| Language Arts Focus | Author Study: Helen Oxenbury | Our Favorite Books Project | Story- telling |
Author Study: Ezra Jack Keats |
Book- making |
Author Study: TBD |
| Sensory Exploration |
Hearing | Feeling/ Textures | Seeing | Feeling/ hot & cold |
Tasting & Smelling |
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| Field Trips/ Classroom Events |
apple picking | “My Favorite Book” / Literary Week Fall observa- tion walk (leaf hunt) trip to pumpkin patch (Kelder’s Farm) |
Thanks- giving feast colors treasure hunt |
snowy day observation walk family activities | Spring observa- tion walk body tracing project |
Immersion Week field trip based on emergent curriculum |
Pre-Kindergarten Curriculum
Teacher: Kathleen Flannery
| Units/ Theme |
Sept – Oct | Oct – Nov | Dec – Jan | Feb – Mar | April – May | June |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Curriculum Focus |
introduc- tion – ourselves become a class |
our families
welcome Fall |
winter & the long, dark nights | our school community
explore our senses |
our neighborhood
welcome Spring |
how we’ve grown
prepare for transition |
| play name games
explore: the classroom, |
search for signs of Autumn plant bulbs who is in your family? |
what animals do in Winter nights in our homes |
map our campus
play games that emphasize different senses |
plants & Insects
become bird watchers |
amazing things we can do now | |
| create a class mobile first class trip to an apple orchard |
explore the nature trail
visit a pumpkin patch |
celebrate the Solstice put out food for animals |
visit other classrooms
invite reading partners to lunch |
visit at our local library
walk the Nature Trail |
visit Kinder- garten prepare for the End of Year Ceremony |
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| Read I Like Me & Friends | Read It’s Pumpkin Time & Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge | Read Bear Snores On & Twinkle Twinkle Little Star | Read The Five Senses series | Read The Grouchy Lady Bug & Ten Seeds | Read Hooray For Me & Taking a Bath With the Dog |
Kindergarten Curriculum
Teacher: Cindy McNabb
| Units/ Theme |
Sept | Oct – Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb-Mar | April | May – June |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Curricu- lum Focus |
ourselves & our families | our environment, neighborhood, & the harvest |
body care | felting & sequen-cing |
animals in the winter |
recycling & planting | bee pollina- tion & growth |
| Math | CSMP | CSMP | CSMP | CSMP | CSMP | CSMP | CSMP |
| Science | study on Autumn | composting/ harvest |
The 5 Senses -germs | study on Winter | sheep to wool |
life cycles - seeds |
life cycles -butterfly -frogs |
| Language Arts |
“Shoe Project” - dicta- ting a story |
- cookbook | creating our own 5 senses book |
dramatic sequen-cing -The Mitten -Charlies New Cloak |
pen pal -winter animal journals |
making a book about Life cycles | Year- books |
| History | “All about Me” book family book |
community history | winter holidays |
myths & folktales |
bedtime around the world |
bee study | a year of growth putting it all together |
| Field Trips/ Class- room Events |
apple picking | pumpkin picking | Immer- sion Week |
visit a local bee- keeper |
guided tour of Mohonk “Duck Pond” |
1st Grade Curriculum
Teacher: Kristin Schroder
| Units/Theme | Sept – Oct | Nov – Dec | Jan – Feb | March – April | May – June | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Language Enrichment shared reading individual & small group |
– Phonics – spelling – handwriting – dictation big books, charts, beginner readers |
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Content area theme related books |
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| Literature read to the class | Charlotte’s Web (White) |
TBD | >>> | The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (DiCamillo) |
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| Math | CSMP – counting numbers and integers | >>>>> addition, story problems |
>>>>> binary operations, spatial reasoning |
>>>>> deductive reasoning, tens friends |
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| Social Studies/ Science
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my community apples: from seed to table. bats cooperative research project. |
trees: -exploration of this rich eco-system. |
friendship & families animals in winter owls | work in the community maple syrup project. |
honey bees independent group research |
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| Writing Projects | photo journaling creepy countdown book | >>>> letters to the orchard |
>>>> collaborative tracking book |
>>>> the maple project |
>>>> bee research |
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| Field Trips/ Classroom Events |
trips to organic orchard, partnership with local bee keeper |
campus explorations | >>>> | neighborhood sugar shack, tapping our own maples |