General Communication Goals |
Respond to commands and instructions |
Identify new vocabulary related to animals and food |
Choose colors, materials, toys and books |
Request and reporting in everyday situations |
Answer questions with familiar structures |
Describe things according to size and color |
Express preferences, likes and dislikes |
Offer, accept and decline offers |
Speculate and guess |
Express needs and feelings |
Report abilities |
Sing and listen to songs |
Repeat words or phrases from familiar stories |
Long-Term Projects |
All About Me |
Animals Around Me |
Eric Carle Stories |
Free Exploration |
Traditional Stories |
Themes | |||
Pets | |||
My Family | |||
Fruits and colors | |||
Garden Animals | |||
Farm Animals | |||
Where does our food come from? |
1st Semester – Content |
Everyday Language |
Fruits |
Pets |
Colors |
Numbers 1 – 10 |
Feelings |
Family members |
Opposites |
Parts of the face |
School materials |
2nd Semester – Content |
Everyday language |
Farm animals and its characteristics |
Garden animals and its characteristics |
Textures |
Likes and Dislikes |
Numbers 1 – 20 |
Parts of the body |
Opposites |
Story characters |
School materials |
Shapes |
General Communication Goals |
Greet people |
Request and report in everyday situations |
Express preferences and needs |
Understand and follow commands and instructions |
Ask and answer questions about what they like and what they want |
Report feelings |
Describe what they can see |
Make choices at lunch time |
Ask for school materials during classes |
Ask help to others |
Classify objects according to their characteristics |
Speculate and guess |
Report abilities |
Sing and listen to songs |
Long-Term Projects |
Our school |
Animals around us – Wild and sea animals |
Feeling the music |
Playing with our friends |
Themes | ||
Our rotine | ||
Feelings and emotions | ||
Moving our bodies | ||
Weather and clothes | ||
Our favourite toys | ||
Wild animals | ||
Sea animals | ||
Music and musical instruments | ||
Nursery rhymes | ||
Children’s games |
1st Semester – Content |
Everyday language |
Routine moments |
School materials |
Feelings and emotions |
Parts of the body |
Clothes |
Weather |
Toys and materials |
2nd Semester – Content |
Everyday language |
Wild animals and their habitat |
Wild animals and their characteristics |
Sea animals and what they eat |
Sea animals and their characteristics |
Musical instruments |
General Communication Goals |
Greet people |
Talk about personal information and feelings |
Get to know one another |
Collect information with questions |
Ask for help and offering help |
Ask for permission |
Invite kids to play |
Talk about the weekend |
Talk about the weather |
Talk about others |
Long-Term Projects |
Our neighborhood |
I can help! |
I can rhyme! |
I can play! |
Themes | |||
Us, our house and our family | |||
Our city, jobs and occupations | |||
Heroes, superheroes and superpowers | |||
Games we play | |||
The 3R’s – reduce, reuse and recycle |
1st Semester – Content |
Body parts and movements |
School and house spaces |
Family and professions |
Maps and directions |
Abilities |
Rhymes |
2nd Semester – Content |
Make-believe play and stories |
Superheroes and abilities |
Follow and create rules |
Places to play |
Types of games |
Hand clapping games and rhymes |
Recognize and classify different materials |
3 R’s: reduce, reuse and recycle |
General Communication Goals |
Greetings and introductions |
Exchange personal information |
Talk about preferences |
Speculate and guess about the world around them |
Ask and answer questions about daily routine |
Ask and answer questions about food, language, clothes and animals in different countries |
Justify an answer |
Express similarities and differences between planets and between different biomes |
Talk about the weekend |
Talk about different cultures to speculate about someone’s habits |
Long-Term Projects |
Trips around the world |
Our Mascot |
I went to the moon and… |
Endangered species and their biomes |
Themes | ||
Around the World | ||
Routines Around the World | ||
The Solar System | ||
Earth Biomes |
1st Semester – Content |
Personal information |
Preferences |
Days of the week |
Food vocabulary |
Cardinal numbers |
Clothes around the world |
Daily Routine |
Flags around the world |
The Globe: countries and continents |
Emotions and feelings |
Sports around the world |
2nd Semester – Content |
Personal information |
Preferences |
Sky elements and characteristics – day and night |
Solar System: compare planets in terms of size and distance from the sun |
Ordinal numbers |
Ask and give information about the animals and the plants in different biomes |
Themes | |||
1st Quarter | 2nd Quarter | 3rd Quarter | 4th Quarter |
Families around the world | Living and being | Let’s have fun! | Behind the garment |
1st Quarter | |
Project: | This is how we do it |
Content: |
Get to know the new routine; Recognize sounds, letters and words in English; Listen and talk about different families around the world; Share family stories, recipes and habits; Talk about family objects; Talk about likes and dislikes; Describe families; Ask people’s ages; Talk about birthday date and parties; Ask people where they are from; Exchange information about families. |
2nd Quarter | |
Projects: | Helping hands; Room in a box |
Content: |
Describe daily routine and temporary actions we can do around the house; Talk about different houses around the world, resources and materials; Reflect upon what we can do at home to help our planet; Talk about green actions; Give green tips to their peers and families; Talk about countries and continents. |
3rd Quarter | |
Project: | My Festival |
Content: |
Talk about sports and free time activities; Describe what people are doing; Ask for confirmation about what people are doing; Read and talk about party food x everyday food; Read and talk about festivals around the world. |
4th Quarter | |
Project: | Monster’s trip around the world |
Content: |
Describe parts of the body of humans and animals; Describe clothes; Say what people are wearing; Learn about clothes in different countries. |
Themes | |||
1st Quarter | 2nd Quarter | 3rd Quarter | 4th Quarter |
Technology for all | School life | What’s for dinner? | Big world |
1st Quarter | |
Project: | Survival mode on |
Content: |
Talk about technology and how it affects our lives;; Describe situations happening at the moment we speak; Explore different kinds of technology around the world. |
2nd Quarter | |
Project: | Schools around the world |
Content: |
Talk about school subjects and facilities at Mobile; Talk about school subjects and facilities in schools around the world; Talk about their favourite subjects; Describe their daily routine; Talk about school uniforms and lunches around the world. |
3rd Quarter | |
Project: | Food: what’s behind it? |
Content: |
Describe food and beverage; Talk about different and food habits around the world; Describe their food habits; Ask their friends about their food habits; Exchange information about what someone does regularly. |
4th Quarter | |
Project: | My dream country |
Content: |
Talk about geographical features around the world (beach, city, mountains, river, etc.); Compare different things and places; Describe situations that happen regularly; Exchange information about what someone does regularly; Exchange information about where, when and why someone does the activities in their routine. |
Themes | |||
1st Quarter | 2nd Quarter | 3rd Quarter | 4th Quarter |
Healthy Living | People and professions | Expeditions | Legends and Myths |
1st Quarter | |
Project: | Well-Being #community |
Content: |
Talk about eating habits in people’s routine; Name different sports and food items; Talk about how sports, exercises and food can lead to a healthier life; Increase awareness of various problems that the lack of healthy habits can cause; Investigate and explain why there are so many different healthy habits between different cultures; Share and listen to each other’s opinions; Ask and say what you and other people are doing. |
2nd Quarter | |
Project: | Everyone has a story |
Content: |
Learn about jobs and workplaces; Learn about how products and foods can get to your house; Talk about what people do at work; Talk about what jobs people had in the past; Explorer the past in terms of jobs that no longer exist, movies and games (old movies/games and their remakes); Write about an important event in our life; Write a letter; Discuss unusual and essential jobs. |
3rd Quarter | |
Project: | 4th grade expeditions |
Content: |
Talk about transportation and travelling equipment; Talk about things to do on a holiday, when traveling; Identify the characters, setting, plot and the conflict in a story; Learn about different kinds of expedition; Learn about different geographical features; Create an imaginary expedition; Write a narrative. |
4th Quarter | |
Project: | Our own legends |
Content: |
Learn about legends from some countries; Recognize the characters, setting, plot and the conflict in a story; Create their own legend; Learn about storytelling and becoming a storyteller; Learn about cultural facts from other countries. |
Themes | |||
1st Quarter | 2nd Quarter | 3rd Quarter | 4th Quarter |
Connections Social and cultural identity |
Inventions Traveling |
Idols and leaders |
History of the world Life stories |
1st Quarter | |
Project: | InstaKINDNESS – What connects you to people? |
Content: |
Recognize different text types used online (Instagram, Twitter and Facebook); Talk about exchange programs; Talk about habits and routines; Reflect on and writing about a comment on a social network; Describe clothes; Describe what is happening at the time of speaking; Talk about what clothes people around the world wear; Describe what people are wearing; Reflect on style as an expression of identity; Discover New Zealand culture; Learn more about Peru and its attractions. |
2nd Quarter | |
Project: | Our inventions – We can make the world a better place |
Content: |
Talk about life in the past; Talk about things you used to do as a child; Talk about food preferences; Talk about traveling; Identify characteristics of travel blogs and understand their purposes; Write a personal travel blog post; Investigate the most popular tourist destinations in a country; Reflect on the possibility of volunteering during holidays; Get to know different tourist attractions around the world; Discover about Italian culture; Learn more about England and its mysteries. |
3rd Quarter | |
Project: | World Leaders: What does it take to be a leader? |
Content: |
Learn about world idols and leaders; Describe people’s physical characteristics; Write a biography/timeline; Make use of adjectives to describe appearance; Talk about different occupations; Learn how to use ordinal numbers to talk about dates; Learn more about Egyptian culture. |
4th Quarter | |
Project: | Pandora’s box – Hopes for a better world – Poems |
Content: |
Talk about past events; Learn about world history; Talk about memories and life experiences; Learn about Greek mythology; Discover more about Japanese culture; Describe an event happening at a specific moment in the past. |