THEME 6: Construction Zone
Theme Learning Goals
LITERACY
Phonological Awareness
✔ matches words with same beginning sound
• listens for beginning sound and alliteration
Letter Knowledge
✔ focuses on letter names and shapes: Bb, Mm, Rr
✔ identifies 10 or more alphabet letters by name
• notices beginning letter in words
• is introduced to letter sounds: b /b/, m /m/, r /r/
• matches some letters with their sounds
Comprehension
✔ identifies objects through receptive language
✔ compares and contrasts elements in a story
✔ identifies beginning, middle, and end of a story
Oral Language/Vocabulary
✔ names and describes objects
✔ interprets illustrations
• knows meaning of content-specific vocabulary
• demonstrates progress in ability to retell and extend stories
• uses location and position words
• uses temporal words (before, after, first, next, last )
Book/Print Awareness
• points out the front, first, middle, and end pages of a book
• understands that letters form words
Writing, Written Expression
• contributes to shared writing activities
• participates in interactive and independent writing
• dictates words, phrases, rhymes, sentences
• uses known letters to represent language
Motivation to Read
• shows growing interest in a variety of books
• independently engages in reading behaviors
MATH
Number Sense
✔ counts by ones to ten or higher
✔ recognizes numerals through ten
Measurement
• makes length, height, size comparisons
• orders sets of (3) objects by length, height, size; seriation
• begins to use tools (standard and nonstandard) to imitate measuring
Time
• uses temporal words (before, after )
✔ = Early Growth Indicator
Construction Zone
Theme Learning Goals
FINE ARTS
Art
• uses different colors, textures, shapes
• creates original work
• creates form and meaning
Music
• participates in classroom music activities
Dramatic Play
• combines activities, materials, and equipment in new ways
• makes-believe with objects
• dramatizes stories, poems, fingerplays
• creates or recreates stories