Core Curriculum P5 (Kindergarten)
The International School of Tucson's P5 Core Curriculum has five Subject
Area syllabuses
The P5 Core Curriculum takes as it starting point the P3 and P4 Core
Curricula, and proceeds to the following :
Language
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Language Topics
- Words, Sentences, Questions and Statements
- Syllables and morphemes
- Letters and sounds; allophones and phonemes
- Intonation and stress
- Punctuation
- Stories and Tales
- Parts of a Book
- front and back covers, title and title page, author and
illustrator, Table of Contents
- Parts of a Newspaper and Magazine
- headline, body-text, caption, illustration, chart, diagram
- sections – Sports, News, Televisio
- Subjects and Plots
- Settings
- Genres
- Fiction and Non-fiction
- Historical stories
- Fantasy and Realism
- Reports
- Posters, signs and labels
- Songs and Poems
- Rhythm and rhyme
Language Skills
- Oral Communication – Speaking
- Use and pronounce target language accurately and appropriately
- Produce allophones and phonemes clearly and consistently
- Use tone, volume and intonation to enhance meaning
- Use coherent sentences
- Use simple and compound sentences with accurate and appropriate
word order
- Select an appropriate register for the context
- Retell, relate and sequence stories and events
- Describe common objects and events in both specific and general
language
- Recite short poems of up to one minute in length
- Dramatise stories and poems
- Read simple texts aloud with accurate and appropriate expression
and with regard to punctuation
- Discuss stories, poems, rhymes, questions, explanations and
instructions with confidence and detail
- Use talk to establish relationships with others
- Connect to life experiences the information and events in texts
- Ask questions about essential elements of a text
- Express and discuss thoughts, feelings, ideas and opinions
- Give instructions, directions and messages
- Solicit a sequence of events or a life experience by asking
Wh- type questions
- Relate a sequence of events or a life experience by answering
Wh- type questions
- Oral Communication – Listening
- Anticipate and predict
- Identify the basic facts in what has been heard
- Answer questions about essential elements of a text
- Track auditorily each phoneme, word and sentence
- Count the number of sounds in syllables and syllables in words
- Listen for specific information
- Respond appropriately to the instructions of others
- Write down accurately letters, numbers and words when dictated
- Written Communication – Writing
- Write in complete coherent sentences
- Differentiate clearly the differences between letters, words
and sentences
- Write words and sentences that are legible
- Use upper-case and lower-case letters accurately and appropriately
- Write and use target language accurately and appropriately
- Spell independently using pre-phonetic knowledge, the sounds
of the alphabet and the knowledge of letter names
- Use target punctuation accurately and appropriately
- Write down accurately letters, numbers and words when dictated
- Written Communication – Reading
- Read target vocabulary
- Read simple and high frequency words
- Recognize that sentences are made up of words
- Anticipate, predict, and revise or confirm predictions
- Identify main events and relevant information
- Connect written text with accompanying visual information
- Identify (books)
- Table of contents, title, name of author, name of illustrator
- Identify (newspapers and magazines)
- Headline, body-text, illustration, caption
- News, sports, television
- Read for a variety of purposes
- Read and re-tell the plot of familiar books accurately and
with confidence
- Identify the basic facts in what has been read
- Identify characters, settings and important events
- Read with a degree of independence
- Use comprehension strategies
- Distinguish fantasy texts from realistic texts
- Identify with a character or situation
- Read simple texts aloud with accurate and appropriate expression,
and with regard to punctuation
- Visual Communication – Presenting
- Illustrate accurately and appropriately target language
- Illustrate accurately and appropriately texts read or heard
- Use appropriate facial expression, gesture and body language
when speaking
- Use illustrations or diagrams to accompany a spoken or written
text
- Visual Communication – Viewing
- Identify the basic facts in what has been read, observed or
viewed
- Identify text, illustrations and diagrams, and white-space
in a printed document
- Identify everyday types of print materials
- Describe the function and construction of images
- Identify types of print media
- Books, newspapers, magazines
- Fonts, caps, bold, italics
- Identify types of non-print media
- Drama, video, film, television
- Interpret visual clues in order to analyze and draw inferences
- Identify marks of the recent and historical past
Social Studies
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Social Studies Topics
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Countries, states and cities
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President, Governor, Mayor
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Major religious festivals
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Transportation – how things help us
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Sailing vessels, bicycle, horse
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Steam, electric-power, gasoline-power
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Cars, trucks, buses, trains
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Locate geographic features on a map or globe
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Locate countries, states and cities on a map or
globe
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Locate streets and landmarks on a map
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Locate home, school and other important places on
a map and trace alternative routes between
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Construct maps and models
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Identify information on a chart or diagram
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Identify and differentiate between the symbols and
representations of major countries, states and cities
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Identify and differentiate between the symbols and
representations of community leaders
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Identify and differentiate between the symbols and
representations of major workplaces and occupations
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Identify and differentiate between the symbols and
representations of major festivals and commemorations
Number
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Number
Topics
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Numbers
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Computation
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Shapes
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Size and Length
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Sides and Corners
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Solids
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Time
Science Skills
- Use measuring tools accurately and appropriately
- Scales, ruler, jug, thermometer, stopwatch, clock
- Make predictions as to length, height, weight, volume, temperature
and length of time
- Check and revise predictions
- Ask and answer questions about an event or phenomenon
- Predict the outcome of an event or phenomenon
- Draw an appropriate conclusion from an observed event or phenomenon
- Record accurately and appropriately measurements or observations
of an event or phenomenon
Study Habits and Working Skills
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Study Habits and Working Skills Topics
- Taking Care of Myself
- Address and telephone numbers
- Presentation of Work
- Layout
- Titles and Date
- Pens and Pencils
- Working and Learning Strategies
- Folders and Books
- Sorting, filing and organizing
- Homework
- Handwriting
- Information Tools
- Maps and Globes
- Dictionaries and Reference books
- Ruler, scales, balance
- Computer
Study Habits and Working Skills Skills
- The Classroom
- Name and date all work
- Present polished work
- Underline all titles and the date accurately and neatly
- Cut and paste items accurately and neatly
- Frame all items pasted accurately and neatly
- Use paint, markers, chalk, pens and pencils accurately and neatly
- Working and Learning Strategies
- Sort and organize folder work by date or by topic
- Bring needed material to school independently
- Take the homework notebook home and bring it back to school independently
- Looking after myself
- Tie shoelaces
- Say and write address and telephone numbers
- Handwriting
- Hold writing instruments appropriately
- Draw circles, curves and straight lines freehand
- Use punctuation accurately and appropriately
- Print legible upper-case and lower-case letters in a consistent
style
- Print lower-case letters using flicks
- Print joined up lower-case letters
- Write lower-case letters using a cursive style
- Present writing appropriately with correct and consistent directionality
and spacing
- Single letters, pairs of letters, words, sentences
- Single numbers, pairs of numbers, groups of numbers
- Write
- By tracing
- By copying from a model
- Information Tools
- Look for information in reference books, maps or globes, and
dictionaries with independence and confidence
- Computer
- Create simple text documents and save them for future use
- Locate and open previously-saved text documents
- Print text documents
- Solve puzzles and perform mathematical operations
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