EARLY CHILDHOOD GRADE PreK Instructional Focus ⊲ Language ⊲ Social-Emotional Learning ⊲ Vocabulary
PreK On My Way –continued
INDEPENDENT CENTERS
ASSESSMENT
1 WEEK
LANGUAGE
Observational Assessment
Manipulatives
Fine Arts
Comments
Child’s Name
Date
ART • Uses dierent art materials for exploration and for sensory experience.
Language
Comments
LISTENING • Responds appropriately to spoken language.
Social Studies
GEOGRAPHY • Explores geography tools and resources, such as maps, signs, and street addresses.
• Shows understanding of spoken language.
VOCABULARY • Shows an awareness of new words and curiosity about their meaning. SENTENCE STRUCTURE • Uses regular and irregular plurals, regular and irregular past tense, pronouns, and possessives.
Physical Development GROSS MOTOR • Masters basic skills of running, jumping, climbing, and pedaling.
LANGUAGE & LITERACY MODULES • Microphone • 9 6 attribute buttons • 6 magnifiers
• Uses subject-verb agreement.
FINE MOTOR • Shows increasing control of tasks that require eye-hand coordination. (TX.IX.B.2) • Shows emerging proficiency on tasks requiring eye-hand coordination.
Mind Builders
EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT • Identifies own body within surroundings and respects others’ personal space. (MB)
Math CLASSIFICATION
• Shows self-awareness in dierent/multiple ways. (MB)
• Sorts objects that are the same and dierent into groups and use language to describe how the groups are similar and dierent. (TX.V.E.1) • Describes and sorts objects by similarities and dierences.
EXECUTIVE FUNCTION • Focuses attention. (Self-Regulation). (MB)
⊲ Writing ⊲ Science ⊲ Social Studies
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Observational assessment checklists (1 per week, in English and Spanish. Available in digital and print.)
⊲ Visual Arts ⊲ Technology ⊲ Physical Development SOLE SOURCE
LITERACY MODULE • Magnetic letters (uppercase and lowercase) • 12 jumbo tweezers MATH MODULE • 6 geoboards • Magnetic numbers (numerals 0–9)
DIGITAL RESOURCES
Teacher hub (lessons and resources by theme and skill)
DEVELOPED FOR KINDERGARTEN READINESS
• 100 connecting cubes • 125 pattern blocks and 16 double-sided cards • 100 counters
Family exchange (weekly family activities with access to songs, little eReaders, and more!)
Tamales!
Little eReaders (32 theme-aligned English and Spanish digital books)
Song collection (32 songs in English and Spanish)
Classroom library (24 English and 24 Spanish)
CLASSROOM RESOURCES
Manipulatives
Teacher binders ( Set of 2)
Module posters ( 3 English and 3 Spanish)
Theme posters ( 8 English and 8 Spanish)
4 binder clips
Equity sticks Clifford the Big Red Dog ® plush puppet
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Stick puppets for each module
Pocket chart
Implementation guides (1 English and 1 Spanish)
Mind Builders posters ( 1 English and 1 Spanish)
Audio postcards (1 English and 1 Spanish)
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