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: Estrenemos Phonics and Reading | Launch: Estrenemos Phonics and Reading Unit 1: Las necesidades de los animales |
Unit 1: Las necesidades de los animales Unit 2: Toda historia tiene personajes |
Unit 3: Las reglas en la casa y la escuela |
Unit 4: Los escritores cuentan muchas historias | Unit 5: La tecnología en la casa y en la escuela |
Unit 6: Las historias nos ofrecen un mensaje Unit 7: Días feriados y celebraciones |
Unit 7: Días feriados y celebraciones Unit 8: El tiempo y las estaciones |
Unit 8: El tiempo y las estaciones Unit 9: Lo que necesitamos y lo que deseamos |
Unit 10: Fuerza y Movimiento |
| Cantonese | Launch: Introducing Myself & The Moon Festival | Unit 1: Fall & Crops in Fall | Unit 2: Food in Fall & Halloween | Unit 3: Thanks & Thanksgiving | Unit 4: Winter Holiday | Unit 5: Winter & 100th Day of School | Unit 6: Chinese New Year, The Zodiac, & Valentine's Day | Unit 7: Buying From the Bakery & Earth Day | Unit 8: Animals in Spring | Unit 9: Plants in Spring |
| English Language Development | Launch Unit: Week 1: Self Week 2 Family and Friends |
Unit 1: Making New Friends (3 weeks) Unit 2: Tools We Use (1 week) |
Unit 2: Tools We Use (2 weeks) Unit 3: Rules to Go By (2 Weeks) |
Unit 3: Rules to Go By (1 Week) Unit 4: Time for Work (2 Weeks) |
Unit 4: Time for Work (1 Week) Assessment (1 week) |
Unit 5: How Does Your Garden Grow? (3 weeks) Unit 6: The Four Seasons (1 Week) |
Unit 6: The Four Seasons (2 weeks) Unit 7: Baby Animals (2 weeks) |
Unit 7: Baby Animals (2 weeks) Unit 8: On the Move (1 week) |
Unit 8: On the Move (2 weeks) Unit 9: Growing Up (2 weeks) |
Unit 9: Growing Up (1 week) Unit 10: Problem Solvers (3 weeks) |
| English Language Arts | Launch Unit: Learning About My Reading and Writing Identity | Spiral 1: Building My Reading and Writing Identity | Spiral 2: Learning about the World | Spiral 3: Activists in Action | Spiral 4: Researching the Weather, Researching the World | |||||
| Math | Unit 0: Introduction Unit 1: Playing with Shapes |
Unit 1: Playing with Shapes Unit 2: Numbers to 10 |
Unit 2: Numbers to 10 Unit 3: Compose & Decompose Numbers to 10 Unit 4: Describe & Decompose Numbers to 10 |
Unit 4: Describe & Compose 2-D Shapes Unit 5: Addition & Addition Situations |
Unit 5: Addition & Addition Situations Unit 6: Subtraction & Subtraction Situations |
Unit 6: Subtraction & Subtraction Situations Unit 7: Describe & Compose 3-D Shapes |
Unit 7: Describe & Compose 3-D Shapes Unit 8: Numbers to 20 |
Unit 8: Numbers to 20 Unit 9: Compose & Decompose Numbers to 20 |
Unit 10: Length, Weight, and Capacity Unit 11: Numbers to 100 |
Unit 11: Numbers to 100 Unit 12: Mastering Addition and Subtraction to 5 |
| Science | Launch Unit 0: I Am a Scientist (4 lessons) |
Unit 1: Needs of Plants & Animals (21 lessons) |
Unit 2: Pushes & Pulls (22 lessons) |
Unit 3: Sunlight & Weather (22 lessons) |
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| History/Social Science | Unit 0 Launch Learning and Working Together (4 weeks) |
Who I Am in My Community: (4-5 weeks) |
Time and Chronology: Reaching out to Times Past(4-5 weeks) | |||||||
| Physical Education | Unit Zero 2.0 & Establishing the Environment (Unit 1) | Establishing the Environment (Unit 1) & Locomotor Skills | Cooperative Activities & Locomotor Skills | Cooperative Activities & Movement Concepts | Underarm Movement Patterns & Body Concepts | Underarm Movement Patterns and Bouncing, & Body Concepts | Underarm Movement Patterns, Bouncing, Catching & Body Concepts | Tossing & Manipulatives | Tossing & Manipulatives | Tossing & Field Day /Unit of Choice |
| 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 | Launch Technology: Kinder Getting Started Guide DA: Digital Footprint | 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 |
ESCS is designed to be taught once a week for 30 minutes for half of the school year. |
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This page was last updated on August 31, 2023