<p> KINDER 2 September 2014-2015</p><p>LANGUAGE ARTS</p><p>Listening and Speaking: The students will:  Use present tense sentences to describe events.  Recognize and produce vowels sounds.  Answer wh-questions (what & where) about stories.</p><p>Initial reading The students will:  Identify, match and write vowels relating them to specific words.  Identify characters and main idea of stories.  Order sequence of events from different stories.</p><p>Initial writing The students will:  Identify, match and trace vowels and vocabulary words.  Start tracing their name.</p><p>MATHEMATICS</p><p>The students will:  Comprehend and identify concepts of up-down & same-equal.  Identify, match and copy geometric shapes (circle and triangle).  Identify, count and match numbers from 1-10.  Learn about group concept.</p><p>SCIENCE</p><p>The students will:  Comprehend kinds of weather and their appropriate wardrobe.  Identify day and night activities on their own context.  Comprehend animals and plants are sources of food for human beings.</p><p>SOCIAL STUDIES The students will:  Learn about animals as a mean of transportation and community helpers that use them.  Describe and compare characteristics of the place where they live.  Identify different kinds of houses in their neighborhood.  Learn about Mexican festivities (Niños Heroes (13), Mexican Independence (16), Monterrey Foundation (20) and International Day for the Peace (21). SOCIO-EMOTIONAL SKILLS:</p><p>The students will:  Identify personal characteristics.  Offer help.  Respect others when playing.  Starting to identify their emotions.  Understand and practice classroom rules.</p><p>ESPAÑOL</p><p>Escucha y Expresión Oral Los estudiantes:  Utilizarán oraciones en tiempo presente para describir eventos.  Reconocerán y producirán el sonido de las vocales.  Contestarán preguntas de qué y dónde de las historias.</p><p>Lectura Inicial Los estudiantes:  Identificarán, unirán y trazarán las vocales y su vocabulario.  Identificarán los personales e idea principal de un cuento.  Ordenarán la secuencia de eventos de diferentes historias.</p><p>Escritura Inicial Los estudiantes:  Identificarán, trazarán y relacionarán las vocales y su vocabulario.  Empezarán a trazar su nombre.  Dibujarán líneas de arriba-abajo e izquierda-derecha.</p><p>COMPUTER</p><p>The students will:  Learn about: Speaker and Volume, Digital camera, and Good Habits.  Work with:  Thinking things 1: Flying Shapes (parts 1 and 2)  Kid Pix Studio: Shape Collage. ART</p><p>The students will:  Comprehend meaning from works of art, including own according to the elements of art.  Apply artistic processes, skills, materials and tools to communicate meaning.  Communicate and express through original works of art.  Comprehend the role and development of the visual arts in the past and present cultures throughout the world.  Use the vocabulary of the visual arts to express observations.  Learn about Alexander Calder’s art. MUSIC</p><p>The students will:  Comprehend words of music and the performance of musicians according to the elements of music, aesthetic, qualities and human responses.  Compose and arrange music applying vocal and instrumental musical skills in performing a varied repertoire of music.  Improvise melodies and accompaniments to express own feelings and ideas.  Listen and describe music and other aural information, using to terminology of music.</p><p>DANCE</p><p>The students will:  Respond through movement to opposites.  Demonstrate movement skills & process sensory information using the elements of dance  Name and play children’s dance games from countries around the world.  Describe movements of dance using vocabulary such as: copying, mirroring, leading and following.  Create movements that reflect a variety of daily tasks and activities.</p><p>GYM & SPORTS</p><p>The students will:  Learn about health and security practices for themselves and others.  Learn about how to take care of themselves to keep their well-being.</p>