Thematic Unit Planning Matrix- One daily/weekly lesson, 45 minutes, for 1 month ALL ABOUT ME

Content
Area(Theme):
Arts
Integration

Focus Area

All About Me!

-How do you
look like?
-Does
everybody look
the same?

Language Arts Whats in a

name?
- How to write
your name
- What makes
your name
unique

Thematic
Questions/
Objectives

Centers

Technology
Integration

Students will
be able to
draw a selfportrait of
themselves
using
materials
that best
represents
them.

As a whole group, I Like Myself

the teacher will
by Karen
model how to draw Beaumont
a self-portrait using
either paint, crayon,
color pencil,
pastels, gel pens, or
finger paints.

Students will
be able to
understand
the concept
of names
and identify
similarities/di
fferences
between two
texts.

A worksheet that
asks the writers to
be detectives by:
Counting how many
letters are in your
name, how many
syllabus, if it rhymes
with something.
Then students are

Assessment
and/or Rubric
Scale
Rubric

Chrysanthemu Rubric
m by Kevin
Henkes
Its Okay to Be
Different by
Todd Parr

Student
Products or
Portfolio

Common Core or
PA Standards

Students will
draw a selfportrait for their
portfolio.

9.3.3.C.: Know
classification skills
with materials and
processes used to
create works in
the arts (e.g.,
sorting and
matching textiles,
musical charts,
television
comedies)
(Unable to find
standard for
Kindergarten so
used an upper
grade one)

Students will add

two worksheets
to their portfolio.
First would be a
worksheet that
breaks down
their name and
another one is
the graphic
organizers.

CC.1.2.K.I: With
prompting and
support, identify
basic similarities
and differences
between two text
(read or read
aloud) on the
same topic.

asked to fill out a

Venn diagram as a
whole class to
compare and
contrasting the
readings for today.
Mathematics

Counting!

Students will
be able to
-Counting
count how
numbers in
many eyes,
order by using nose,
parts that make fingers, and
up who you are. toes they
have and be
able to write
it.

Students will be
separated into three
different centers
homogeneously.
Each station will
contain magnetic
objects (butterflies,
balls, animals) and
a cookie sheet.
They will play a
game at teach
station where they
roll a die and have
to stick on objects
equivalent to the
number.

Science

Everybody and
Everything is
different!

Students will
Are You My
Rubric
participate in a mini Mother by P.D.
project that asks a Eastman
pair of students to
choose a species
(human, canines,
ducks, wolves) and
research the life
cycle from birth to
adulthood.

Students will
be able to
understand
the
-Discuss
difference
different species between
-Discuss the
species and
different
how each
characteristics family can
of species.
look

Eyes, Nose,
Fingers, and
Toes: A First
Book All About
You by Judy
Hindley

Informal
assessment in
the form of
checklist and
participation

Students will not

be adding
anything to their
portfolio. Instead
they will

CC.2.1.K.A.1:
Know number
names and write
and recite the
count sequence.

Students will add 3.1.K.A5: Observe

their mini report and describe how
in their portfolio. young animals
resemble their
parents and other
animals of the
same kind.

different.
Social Studies Wrap up All
About Me Unit!

Students will
be able to
understand
-Discuss growth the growth
of a human
and see the
chronology
of their lives.

Utilizing the book,

My Book about Me
by Dr. Seuss,
students will be able
to fill out their
individual book
using their own
information.

My Book
About Me by
Dr. Seuss
Book

Rubric

Students will add

their own copies
of the book My
Book About Me
by Dr. Seuss. x

8.1.1.A:
Demonstrate an
understanding of
chronology.