General Communication Goals |
Responding to commands and instructions |
Identifying new vocabulary |
Choosing colors, materials, toys and books |
Requesting and reporting in everyday situations |
Answering questions with familiar structures |
Describing things according to size and color |
Expressing preferences, likes and dislikes |
Offering, accepting and declining offers |
Speculating and guessing |
Expressing needs and feelings |
Reporting abilities |
Singing and listening to songs |
Repeating words or phrases from familiar stories |
Long-Term Projects |
All About Me |
Animals Around Me |
Eric Carle Stories |
5 Senses |
Traditional Stories |
Themes | |||
Pets | |||
Farm Animals | |||
My Family | |||
Free Exploration | |||
This Is Me | |||
Garden Animals | |||
My Body |
1st Semester – Content |
Everyday Language |
Fruits |
Colors |
Numbers 1 – 10 |
Animals and their characteristics |
Family members |
Opposites |
Parts of the body |
School materials |
2nd Semester – Content |
Everyday language |
Expressing feelings |
Farm animals and its characteristics |
Garden animals and its characteristics |
Patterns |
Likes and Dislikes |
Number 1 – 20 |
Parts of the body |
Opposites |
Story characters |
School materials |
Shapes |
General Communication Goals |
Greeting people |
Requesting and reporting in everyday situations |
Expressing preferences and needs |
Understanding commands and instructions |
Asking and answering questions about what they like, what they want and what they have |
Describing what they can feel |
Describing what they can see |
Choosing food at lunch time and school materials |
Asking help to others |
Long-Term Projects |
All about us |
All about us and nature |
Music around us |
Playing with our friends |
Themes | ||
Our rotine | ||
Our Eating Preferences | ||
Games and Toys (Show and Tell) | ||
Nursery Rhymes | ||
Sea and Wild Animals | ||
Body and Movement | ||
Music and Instruments | ||
Weather and Clothes We Can Wear |
1st Semester – Content |
Everyday language |
Routine moments |
School spaces |
Favorite toys |
Group games |
Nursery rhymes and children’s songs |
School materials requests |
Fruits, vegetables and food choices |
Clothes and weather |
Parts of the body and movements |
Expressing feelings |
2nd Semester – Content |
Everyday language |
Animals and their characteristics |
Natural habitats and their characteristics |
Characters and elements of traditional stories |
Group games |
Nursery rhymes and children’s songs |
Music genres |
Musical instruments |
Describing clothes and weather |
General Communication Goals |
Greeting people |
Talking about personal information and feelings |
Getting to know one another |
Collecting information with questions |
Asking for help and offering help |
Asking for permission |
Inviting kids to play |
Talking about the weekend |
Talking about the weather |
Talking about others |
Long-Term Projects |
My favorites! (year long) |
My neighborhood |
Recycling |
I can rhyme |
Games we play |
Themes | |||
Me, my house and family | |||
My neighborhood | |||
Heroes and superheroes | |||
I can play… | |||
Reduce, reuse and recycle | |||
The circus |
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 |
Following and creating rules |
Places to play |
Types of games |
Hand clapping games and rhymes |
Recognizing and classifying different materials |
3 R’s: reduce, reuse and recycle |
Circus performers and abilities |
General Communication Goals |
Greetings and introductions |
Exchanging personal information |
Talking about preferences |
Speculating and guessing |
Asking and answering questions about activities they do on different days of the week |
Describing places and actions |
Talking about school and activities: daily routine |
Asking for permission |
Asking for and offering help |
Requesting and exchanging materials |
Justifying an answer |
Expressing similarities and differences |
Talking about the weekend |
Developing word-sound awareness |
Describing and comparing with superlatives and comparatives |
Talking about different cultures to speculate about someone’s habits |
Identifying pieces of information in a video |
Long-Term Projects |
Around the world |
Tongue Twisters and Hand-Clapping games |
Space and The Solar System |
Daily routine |
Professions and workplaces around the city |
Themes | ||
Around the World | ||
Games and Habits Around the World | ||
Space and the Solar System | ||
When I grow up I want to be a… | ||
Daily Activities |
1st Semester – Content |
Personal information |
Preferences |
Days of the week and months of the year |
Food vocabulary |
Cardinal numbers |
Clothes around the world |
Daily Routine |
Flags around the world |
The Globe: countries and continents |
Colors and shapes |
Emotions and feelings |
Sports, games and toys around the world |
2nd Semester – Content |
Personal information |
Preferences |
Sky elements and characteristics – day and night |
Solar System: planets |
Comparatives and superlatives |
Workplaces around the city |
Ordinal numbers |
Job occupations |
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: | Families around the world |
Content: |
Getting to know the new routine; Recognizing sounds, letters and words in English; Talking about different families around the world; Understanding family heritage and describing family origins; Sharing family stories, recipes and habits; Talking about family objects; Talking about likes and dislikes; Describing families; Asking people’s ages; Talking about birthday date and parties; Asking people where they are from; Exchanging information about families; Talking about immigration. |
2nd Quarter | |
Project: | Helping hands |
Content: |
Describing daily routine and temporary actions we can do around the house; Talking about different houses around the world, resources and materials; Reflecting upon what we can do at home to help our planet; Recognizing and writing shapes and numbers in order to describe a building; Talking about green actions; Giving green tips; Talking about countries and continents. |
3rd Quarter | |
Project: | Festivals around the world |
Content: |
Talking about sports and free time activities; Describing what people are doing; Reading and talking about party food x everyday food; Reading and talking about festivals around the world; Creating their own festival and giving a presentation about it. |
4th Quarter | |
Project: | Monster’s trip around the world |
Content: |
Describing parts of the body of humans and animals; Describing clothes; Saying what people are wearing; Learning 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: |
Talking about technology; Describing situations happening at the moment; Exploring different kinds of technology around the world; Expanding their cultural background related to technology. |
2nd Quarter | |
Project: | Schools around the world |
Content: |
Talking about school subjects and facilities at Mobile; Talking about school subjects and facilities from schools around the world; Talking about school objects; Talking about their favourite subjects; Describing their daily routine; Talking about school uniforms and lunches around the world. |
3rd Quarter | |
Project: | Food: what’s behind it? |
Content: |
Describing food and beverage; Talking about different food habits from around the world; Talking about different food from the world; Describing their food habits; Ordering their own food and beverage in a restaurant. |
4th Quarter | |
Project: | Creating my own country |
Content: |
Talking about geographical features around the world (beach, city, mountains, river, etc.); Comparing different things using comparatives; Describing things and situations. |
Themes | |||
1st Quarter | 2nd Quarter | 3rd Quarter | 4th Quarter |
Around town | Just the job | Going places | Having fun |
1st Quarter | |
Project: | From São Paulo to the world |
Content: |
Getting to know people; Talking about places to visit in a city and in a country; Learning more about the touristic places in the city where they live and in other places around the world; Comparing São Paulo then and now; Talking about places around the world and their characteristics. |
2nd Quarter | |
Project: | A letter from a special day in my quarantine |
Content: |
Learning about jobs and workplaces; Learning about how products and foods can get to your house; Talking about what people do at work; Talking about what people did in the past; Writing about an event in our life; Writing a letter; Discussing peculiar and essential jobs. |
3rd Quarter | |
Project: | 4th grade expeditions |
Content: |
Talking about transportation and travelling equipment; Talking about things to do on a holiday, when traveling; Identifying the characters, setting, plot and the conflict in a story; Learning about different kinds of expedition; Learning about different geographical features; Creating an imaginary expedition; Writing a narrative. |
4th Quarter | |
Project: | Creating our own legends |
Content: |
Learning about legends from some countries; Identifying the characters, setting, plot and the conflict in a story; Creating their own legend; Learning about storytelling and becoming a storyteller; Learning 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: |
Recognizing different text types used online (Instagram, Twitter and Facebook); Talking about exchange programs; Talking about habits and routines; Reflecting on and writing about a comment on a social network; Describing clothes; Describing what is happening at the time of speaking; Talking about what clothes people around the world wear; Describing what people are wearing; Reflecting on style as an expression of identity; Discovering New Zealand culture; Learning more about Peru and its attractions. |
2nd Quarter | |
Project: | Egg drop challenge |
Content: |
Talking about life in the past; Talking about things you used to do as a child; Talking about food preferences; Talking about traveling; Identifying characteristics of travel blogs and understanding their purposes; Writing a personal travel blog post; Investigating the most popular tourist destinations in a country; Reflecting on the possibility of volunteering during holidays; Getting to know different tourist attractions around the world; Discovering about Italian culture; Learning more about England and its mysteries. |
3rd Quarter | |
Project: | World Leaders: What does it take to be a leader? |
Content: |
Learning about world idols and leaders; Describing people’s physical characteristics; Writing a biography/timeline; Making use of adjectives to describe appearance; Talking about different occupations; Learning how to use ordinal numbers to talk about dates; Learning more about Egyptian culture. |
4th Quarter | |
Project: | Pandora’s box – Hopes for a better world – Poems |
Content: |
Talking about past events; Learning about world history; Talking about memories and life experiences; Learning about Greek mythology; Discovering more about Japanese culture; Describing an event happening at a specific moment in the past. |