Central Idea: unit 2

People celebrate important

Kinder events.
Subject Area Focus: Social
Studies, Literacy

Central Idea: unit 1

Central Idea: unit 3
Learning about our family
People communicate and
helps us understand ourselves understand in different ways.
and the past.
Subject Area Focus: Social
Studies, Math

Subject Area Focus: Literacy,

Math, PSPE, Arts

Key Concepts: form, function,

connection
Related Concepts: identity,
culture

Key Concepts: form, function,

Key Concepts: form, change perspective
Related Concepts: traditions, Related Concepts:
history, time
communication

Lines of Inquiry:

Lines of Inquiry:

what people
celebrate

how people
celebrate

celebrations and
their similarities and
differences

families

the ways a family

can change

ways we can find

out about our past

Central Idea: unit 6

Animals have features that help
them live in different
environments.
Subject Area Focus: Science,
Math, Literacy

different ways we
communicate

ways we understand
messages

choosing an
appropriate form of
communication to express
a message.

Central Idea: unit 5

Plants need certain things in
order to survive.

Subject Area Focus: social studies, mathematics

Subject Area Focus: Science,

Math

Key Concepts: form, function and connection

Related Concepts: systems

Key Concepts: form, function

and responsibility
Related Concepts: classification, Lines of Inquiry:
climate, cycles
transportation

Lines of Inquiry:

Central Idea: unit 4

Transportation systems are designed with a
purpose.

Lines of Inquiry:

features of different
animals

life cycles of animals

features of transportation systems

transportationsystemschangeover

decisions involved in using

transportation
time

animals and their

habitats

Key Concepts: form, function

and causation
Related Concepts: cycles,
change and growth
Lines of Inquiry:

parts of plants
what plants

need

how plants are

essential to life on
Earth

endangered and
extinct animals

Reading Focus: reading pattern Reading Focus: We are

books
readers

Reading Focus: Readers, read,

think and talk
Readers theater and characters

Reading Focus: Reading for

information: research

Writing Focus: writing pattern

books

Writing Focus: Small moment

Writing Focus: information text: All Writing Focus: Persuasive writing and Poetry Loosely Writing Focus: procedural
about
tied into the unit
writing: writing like a scientist
How to writing

Writing Focus: Talking,

drawing and writing

Reading Focus: reading for pleasure and poetry

Reading Focus: Reading for

information:
Nonfiction features