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: Características de los animales |
Unit 1: Características de los animales Unit 2: Los personajes dan forma a sus historias |
Unit 3: La voz del pueblo |
Unit 4: Diferentes perspectivas, diferentes puntos de vista | Unit 5: Adelantos en la tecnología |
Unit 6: Decisiones, decisiones Unit 7: Las comunidades antes y ahora |
Unit 7: Las comunidades antes y ahora Unit 8: La superficie de la tierra |
Unit 8: La superficie de la tierra Unit 9: Tiempo, dinero y valores |
Unit 10: Acciones, reaciones e interacciones |
| Cantonese | Characters 1-15 Unit 1: Geographical features on a map |
Characters 16-40 Unit 2: American Indian Nations |
Characters 41-55 Unit 3: Sequence of major historical events in local history |
Characters 56-80 Unit 4: Role of rules and laws and the basic structure of the U.S. government |
Characters 81-100 Unit 5: Economy of the local region |
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| English Language Development | Launch Unit: Week 1: Self Week 2 Family and Friends |
Unit 1: Growing and Learning (4 weeks) |
Unit 1: Growing and Learning (1 week) Unit 2: Figure it Out (3 weeks) |
Unit 2: Figure it Out (2 weeks) Review and Assessments (1 week) |
Unit 3: One of a Kind (2 Weeks) |
Unit 3: One of Kind (3 weeks) Unit 4: Meet the Challenge (1 week) |
Unit 4: Meet the Challenge (4 weeks) |
Unit 5: Take Action (4 weeks) |
Unit 5: Take Action (1 week) Unit 6: Think it Over (3 weeks) |
Unit 6: Think it Over (2 weeks) Review and Assessments (2 weeks) |
| English Language Arts | Launch Unit | Spiral 1 Narrative: Exploring Our Literacy Journeys as a Community | Spiral 2 Informative/Explanatory: Learning about Our World as a Community | Spiral 3 Opinion/Persuasive: Impacting Change and SBAC Key Skills | Spiral 4 Research: Climate's Impact on Animal Survival | |||||
| Math | Unit 0: Introduction Unit 1: Mastering Basic Numbers and Calculations |
Unit 1: Playing with Shapes Unit 2: Time |
Unit 2: Time Unit 3: Exploring Multiplication Unit 4: 2-D Figures |
Unit 4: 2-D Figures Unit 5: Expanding Multiplication |
Unit 5: Expanding Multiplication | Unit 5: Expanding Multiplication Unit 6: Extending Multiplication Unit 7: Division |
Unit 7: Division Unit 8: Fractions |
Unit 8: Fractions Unit 9: Area Measurement |
Unit 9: Area Measurement Unit 10: Data Graph Unit 11: Volume and Weight |
Unit 11: Volume and Weight. Unit 12: Word Problems and Unknowns |
| Science | Launch Unit 0: I Am a Scientist (5 lessons) Unit 1: Balancing Forces (22 lessons) |
Unit 2a: Inheritance & Traits |
Unit 2b: Environments & Survival (22 lessons) |
Unit 3: Weather & Climate (22 lessons) |
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| History/Social Science | Unit 0 Launch California Indian Unit and more (4-5 weeks) |
Landforms, Resources, and Development (4-5 weeks) |
Important Issues in Our Community (4-5 weeks) |
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| Physical Education | Unit Zero 2.0 Establishing the Environment (Unit I) | Establishing the Environment /Cooperative activities (Unit I) & Jumping Rope | Movement Concepts (Unit 3) & Jumping Rope | Movement Concepts (Unit 3), & Dribbles while Changing Directions | Health-Related Fitness: Muscle Groups (Unit 2) & Dribbles while Changing Directions | Re-Establish the Environment & Health-Related Fitness: Muscle Groups (Unit 2) | Health-Related Fitness: Muscle Groups & Flex (Unit 2) & Throwing/Catching (Unit 5 & 13) | Health-Related Fitness: Flexibility (Unit 2) & Throwing/Catching (Units 5 & 13) | Health-Related Fitness: Flexibility (Unit 2) & Throwing/Catching (Units 5 & 13) | 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 | Launch Technology: 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 | 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