Flow of The Year
Assumptions
1. Maintaining the suggested pacing and flow across all content areas supports students across SFUSD to have a similar, coherent, and transferable learning experience that prepares them for the next grade level.
2. This pacing is approximate and takes school breaks, family conferences, and other changes to the regular classroom schedule and routine into consideration.
Guidance
1. While your pacing may be slightly different, the expectation is that you honor the general flow articulated below.
2. No unit should be skipped.
- Each unit supports students in meeting grade-level standards and expected learning targets. Units are designed to build upon each other - building upon knowledge, skills, and routines learned in previous units.
3. If your pacing or flow is out of sync with the suggested year-at-a-glance, collaborate with your grade-level team, coaches, and/or administrators to ensure students will have the necessary instruction and support for a rich, developmentally appropriate kindergarten experience that well prepares them for success in first grade.
Schedule
| AUGUST | SEPTEMBER | OCTOBER | NOVEMBER | DECEMBER | JANUARY | FEBRUARY | MARCH | APRIL | MAY | |
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| Spanish Language Arts (Each phonics and reading unit is 3 weeks) |
Launch: Phonics and Reading: Estrenemos | Unit 1: En la naturaleza Unit 2: Los personajes en el centro |
Unit 2: Los personajes en el centro Unit 3: El trabajo de tu gobierno |
Unit 3: El trabajo de tu gobierno Unit 4: A través de los ojos del narrador |
Unit 4: A través de los ojos del narrador | Unit 5: La revolución de la robótica Unit 6: Héroes y villanos |
Unit 6: Héroes y villanos Unit 7: Cambiar las vidas, cambiar las comunidades |
Unit 7: Cambiar las vidas, cambiar las comunidades Unit 8: La furia de la naturaleza |
Unit 8: La furia de la naturaleza Unit 9: Los recursos influyen en las economías |
Unit 9: Los recursos influyen en las economías Unit 10: Exploremos la electricidad |
| Cantonese | Characters 1-25 Unit 1: Physical and human geographic features of California regions |
Characters 26-50 Unit 2: Social, political, cultural, and economic life in California |
Characters 51-75 Unit 3: Economic, social, and political life in California |
Characters 76-100 Unit 4: Structures, functions, and powers of local, state and federal governments |
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| English Language Development | Launch Unit: Week 1: Self Week 2 Family and Friends |
Unit 1: Think it Through (4 weeks) |
Unit 1: Think it Through (1 week) Unit 2: Amazing Animals (3 weeks) |
Unit 2: Amazing Animals (2 weeks) Review and Assessments (1 week) |
Unit 3: That's the Spirit (2 Weeks) |
Unit 3: That's the Spirit (3 weeks) Unit 4: Fact or Fiction (1 week) |
Unit 4: Fact or Fiction (4 weeks) |
Unit 5: Figure it Out (4 weeks) |
Unit 5:Figure it Out (1 week) Unit 6: Past, Present, and Future (3 weeks) |
Unit 6: Past, Present, and Future (2 weeks) Review and Assessments (2 weeks) |
| English Language Arts | Launch Unit | Spiral 1 Narrative: Stories Connect Us (Knowledge Building: Brains and Bodies Can Work Differently) | Spiral 2 Informative/Explanatory: Weather and Wildfires | Spiral 3 Opinion/Persuasive: Culture and Migration and SBAC Key Skills | Spiral 4 Research: California Economy | |||||
| Math | Unit 0: Introduction Unit 1: Structure of Whole Numbers |
Unit 1: Structure of Whole Numbers Unit 2: Whole Number Multiplication |
Unit 2: Whole Number Multiplication Unit 3: Whole Number Division |
Unit 3: Whole Number Division Unit 4: Decimal Numbers |
Unit 4: Decimal Numbers | Unit 5: Fractions |
Unit 6: Factors and Multiples Unit 7: Measurement |
Unit 7: Measurement |
Unit 8: Polygons |
Unit 9: Numbers and Shape Patterns |
| Science | Launch Unit 0: I Am a Scientist (5 lessons) Unit 1: Energy Conversions (21 lessons) |
Unit 2: Vision & Light (22 lessons) |
Unit 3: Earth's Features (22 lessons) |
Unit 4: Waves, Energy, & Information (22 lessons) |
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| History/Social Science | 4th Grade Unit 0 Launch California Indian Unit 3-4 weeks |
Colonization and Conflict Changes California (5 weeks) |
The Gold Rush: Continued Colonization, Immigration Leads to Statehood (5 weeks) |
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| Physical Education | Unit Zero 2.0 & Establishing the Environment (Unit I) | Establishing the Environment /Cooperative activities (Unit I) & Throwing/Catching | Movement Concepts (Unit 3) & Throwing/Catching | Movement Concepts (Unit 3), Heartrate, & Goal Setting | Health-Related Fitness: Heart rate (Unit 2 LP 14), Goal Setting, & Unit of Your Choice | Re-Establish the Environment, Heart rate (Unit 2 LP 14), & Goal Setting | Health-Related Fitness: Heartrate, Goal Setting, & Unit of Your Choice | Dribbling with a Defender & Trapping (Unit 15) | Dribbling with a Defender & Trapping (Unit 15) | Unit of Your Choice & Field Day |
| Health | Personal & Community Health | Substance Abuse Prevention | Violence Prevention | Growing Bodies and Active Consent | Nutrition and Physical Activity | LGBTQ & Advocacy | Summer Safety and Environmental Health | |||
| Arts | For 30 min/1x a week of Visual Arts and 30 min/1x a week of Performing Arts, please choose lessons a la carte, either a lesson that relates to and supports the content you are teaching that week (arts integration) or a stand-alone lesson that would offer a creative break/protected "arts moment" for students. Enjoy! | |||||||||
| Digital Learning | Digital Agency (DA): My Digital Life | Getting Started Guide DA: Digital Footprint |
Chromebook Take Home Program Begins DA: Digital Agency Month |
DA: Media Balance | DA: Privacy & Security | DA: Media Literacy | DA: Relationships & Communications | DA: Digital Kindness | DA: Digital for Good | DA: My Digital Life |
| Computer Science | Launch Unit | Unit 1 | Unit 2 | Unit 3 | Unit 4 |
ESCS is designed to be taught once a week for 45-50 minutes for half of the school year. |
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This page was last updated on August 31, 2023