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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

  • Who am I?
    • Family Celebrations
  • Where do I live?
    • Countries, states and cities
    • The Community
    • Buildings
      • Public buildings
      • Private buildings
    • Public places
    • Streets and Roads
    • Maps and the Globe
  • The Human World
    • People and Work
      • Workplaces
      • Jobs in the community
    • Community Leaders
      • President, Governor, Mayor
    • Holidays and Festivals
      • Major religious festivals
      • Commemorative days
  • The Human World
    • Transportation – how things help us
      • Natural energy
        • Sailing vessels, bicycle, horse
    • Artificial energy
        • Steam, electric-power, gasoline-power
    • Cars, trucks, buses, trains

Social Studies Skills

  • Locate geographic features on a map or globe
  • Locate countries, states and cities on a map or globe
  • Locate streets and landmarks on a map
  • Locate home, school and other important places on a map and trace alternative routes between
  • Construct maps and models
  • Identify information on a chart or diagram
  • Identify and differentiate between the symbols and representations of major countries, states and cities
  • Identify and differentiate between the symbols and representations of community leaders
  • Identify and differentiate between the symbols and representations of major workplaces and occupations
  • Identify and differentiate between the symbols and representations of major festivals and commemorations

Number

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Number Topics
  • Numbers
    • Numbers 1 – 100
      • Money
      • Temperature
    • Symbols that represent values
    • Whole numbers
    • Fractions as sharing
  • Computation
    • Addition to total 100 or less
      • Addition of more than two numbers
    • Subtraction from 100 or less
      • Subtraction without carrying
    • Grouping
      • Odd and even numbers
      • 2s, 5s and 10s
      • Remainders
    • Estimation
  • Shapes
    • Size and Length
      • Meters, centimeters, millimeters
    • Sides and Corners
  • Solids
    • Size, Weight and Volume
      • Kilograms, grams
      • Liters, milliliters
    • Faces, Sides and Corners
    • Cylinders, Pyramids, Cubes
  • Time
    • Analogue Clocks
      • 5, 10, 20, 25 past the hour
      • 5, 10, 20, 25 to the hour
    • Programs, timetables and schedules
    • Chronological order
    • Probability

Number Skills

  • Data Handling
    • Represent the same data et in more than one way
    • Ask and answer questions related to data representations
    • Identify, sort and group objects by attributes
    • Identify, sort and group data by attributes
    • Identify, sort and group information by attributes
    • Compare collected objects, data, and information
    • Describe the attributes of a sorted set of objects
    • Pose information questions, collect data, record the results using objects, pictures, and pictographs
    • Read information on a chart or schema
    • Schematise a situation
    • Determine the approach, materials and strategies to be used when handling data
    • Use tools and strategies, such as manipulatives and sketches, to model problems
    • Record, organize and display data
    • Highlight similarities, differences and trends in organizing data
    • Represent data in a pictograph and compare quantities
    • Identify events which are likely or unlikely
  • Measurement
    • Classify from smaller to bigger
    • Measure size, length, weight and volume
      • Using an appropriate measuring device
      • Using an appropriate unit of measurement
    • Measure temperature
    • Identify units of measurement on a scale or chart
    • Compare different sizes, lengths, weights, volumes and temperatures
    • Classify according to chronology
      • Minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years
      • Using a calendar
    • Tell the time
      • Using an analogue clock
    • Measure time
    • Using a stop-watch
    • Name the times of frequent events
    • Use a timetable to identify and predict future events
  • Shape and Space
    • Explore, sort and describe the properties of shapes
    • Explore, sort and describe the properties of solids
    • Sort real-life objects that have similar shapes
    • Discuss similarities and differences between shapes
    • Discuss similarities and differences between solids
    • Create shapes using a variety of materials
    • Construct solids from shape nets
    • De-construct solids from shape nets
  • Pattern and Function
    • Identify, describe and extend simple patterns by referring to their shapes, sizes or colors
    • Classify from smaller to bigger using scales
    • Describe and generalize patterns that exist in or on real objects
    • Identify similarities and differences between patterns of shapes and numbers
    • Create and describe patterns of shapes and numbers
    • Sort information according to patterns
    • Highlight similarities, differences and trends in organizing data
    • Describe the attributes of a sorted set of objects
    • Represent data in a pictograph and compare quantities
  • Numbers
    • Use “+’, “-“ and “=” signs
    • Perform addition of a column of single-digit numbers, both in written form and when dictated
    • Perform addition of double-digit numbers, both in written form and when dictated
    • Perform subtraction of a column of single-digit numbers, both in written form and when dictated
    • Perform addition of double-digit numbers, both in written form and when dictated
      • Without carrying
    • Work in columns keeping hundreds, tens and units underneath each other
    • Count from 1 to 100 forwards
    • Count from 1 to 100 backwards
      • Give the preceding and subsequent three numbers when a random number is chosen
    • Count from 1 to 100 in 2s
      • Identify odd and even numbers
      • Give the preceding and subsequent three multiples of 2 when a random multiple of 2 is chosen
    • Count from 1 to 100 in 5s
      • Identify multiples of 5
      • Give the preceding and subsequent three multiples of 5 when a random multiple of 5 is chosen
    • Count from 1 to 100 in 10’s
      • Identify multiples of 10
      • Give the preceding and subsequent three multiples of 10 when a random multiple of 10 is chosen
    • Name, identify and write ½, ¼

    Science

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    Science Topics

  • The Natural World
    • Who am I?
      • The five senses
    • Where do I live?
      • Oceans, Continents, Mountains, Lakes, Rivers
    • The Sun and Moon
      • Day and night
    • Weather
      • Temperature
    • The Environment and Ecosystems
    • Food
      • From the field to the table
      • From wild to ready-to-eat
  • The Human World
    • Transportation – how things work
      • Natural energy
        • Sailing vessels, bicycle, horse
      • Artificial energy
        • Steam, electric-power, gasoline-power
    • Cars, trucks, buses, trains
  • Scientific Method
    • Predictions
    • Observations
    • Conclusions

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
    • Homework Notebooks
  • Handwriting
    • Printing and Cursive
  • 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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