Veterans Day Kindergarten – 1st Grade Unit

Description

Take a look at what is included and the types of skills that will use learned and reinforced…

Language Arts / Social Studies:

• “Why we celebrate Veterans Day” info page
• “V is for Veteran” pages
  – Letter learning (upper and lower case)
  – Letter sound (recognizing)
  – Fine Motor Skills (coloring, tracing, handwriting)
  – Writing complete sentences (reinforcing capital letters and punctuation)
• “Branches of the Armed Forces” page
  – Fine Motor Skills (tracing)
  – Capitalization (proper nouns)
  – Vocabulary
• “Why we love veterans?” / “Where have veterans served?” / “Veterans and War” / “Fallen Heroes” / “Taps” / “The Red Poppy” pages
  — Fine Motor Skills (tracing)
  – Writing complete sentences (reinforcing capital letters and punctuation)
• “Do you know a veteran?” / “Draw a red poppy” pages
  – Fine motor skills (drawing)
• “Veteran Words to Know” page
  – Vocabulary
  – Fine Motor Skills (tracing)
• “Read each sentence. Write the sentence” pages
  – Fine Motor Skills (handwriting)
  – Writing complete sentences (reinforcing capital letters and punctuation)
  – Paying attention to detail (copy work)
• “Complete each word” page
  – Vocabulary
  – Spelling
  – Capitalization (proper nouns)
  – Fine Motor Skills (handwriting)
• “Veterans Day Poem”
  – Capitalization (proper nouns)
  – Fine Motor Skills (handwriting)
  – Paying attention to detail (copy work)

Math:

• “Veterans Day Counting” page
  – Counting (numbers 1 – 9)
• “Counting Red Poppies” pages
  – Counting (numbers 1 – 20)
  – Skip Counting (by 2s, 5s)
• “Red Poppy Number Chart”
  – Counting and writing numbers to 100
• “Veterans Day Graphing” pages
  – Counting
  – Completing a graph
• “Tally the Pictures”
  – Counting
  – Using tally marks to represent numbers
• “Veterans Day Glyph”
  – Following Directions
  – Color identification

EXTRAS:

• Thank you card for a veteran
• Coloring page
• Words and musical notes to “Taps”