Language Arts Curriculum Calendar

2014-15

Week

Big Book

Supplemental Books

Important
Dates

Letter/
word

Poem

8/11

Ms. Bindergarten, The Night

Crazy Color Creatures
Before Kindergarten; Purple,
(homemade book)
Green & Yellow; Who Said Red

work on
student name Jack Be Nimble
recognition

8/18

Mr. Cookie Baker, If You Give a

Who Took the Cookie? Mouse a Cookie, If You Give a Moose
a Muffin, If You Give a Pig a Pancake

Begin Jolly
Hey Diddle
Phonics one
letter a day s, Diddle
a, t, i, p

8/25

Chicka Chicka Boom

Boom

Boom Chicka Rock, Elmenopee,

Eating the Alphabet, Dr. Seuss's
ABCs, Alphabet Mystery

n, video for
book 1,
c/k, e, h

Twinkle Twinkle

9/1

Chicka Chicka 123

All I Am, Getting Together; Blue

r, m, d, video
Labor Day,
Mary Had a
Hat, Green Hat (Boynton); The
for book 2,
NO school 9/1
Little Lamb
Odds Get Even
g

9/8

Wheels on the Bus

Sail Away, Freight Train (Donald

Crews); Magic School Bus Books

9/15

Brown Bear, Brown Bear

Baby Bear, Baby Bear; Panda

Bear, Panda Bear; Rainbow Fish

video for book Hickory Dickory

3, ai, j, oa, ie Docky

9/22

Five Little Ducks

Five Little Ladybugs, Duck for

President, The Ugly Duckling

ee/or, video
Five Little
for book 4, z,
People
w, ng

9/29

Ten in a Bed

10 Apples on Top, Ten Little

Caterpillars, Ten Little Rabbits, Ten
Little Sleepyheads, Goodnight Moon

v, oo, video for Goodnight,

book 5, y, x Sleep Tight

Five Little Monkeys

Five Little Monkeys Series: Jumped

in the Bath; Sitting in a Tree; Bake a
Birthday Cake; Play Hide-and-Seek;
etc.

ch, sh, th,

Monkeys &
video for book
Alligator
6, qu

10/6

o, u, l, f, b

Jack & Jill

10/1310/17

Fall Break (No School)

10/20

Splash in the Ocean

Over in the Ocean in a Coral Reef,

I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean,
Commotion in the Ocean

10/27

Meanies

Big Toe (BB), Where the Wild Things

Are, Meanies Night Out, Meanies
Come to School, Spider and the Fly

11/3

11/10

11/17

11/24

Halloween

video for book

7, Begin site Itsy Bitsy
word songs: can

Daylight
Savings,
Election Day

we

Peanut Sat on a
Railroad Track

Veteran's Day

the

Baa, Baa, Black

Sheep

like

Down in the
Meadow in a
Little Bitty Pool

see

One Potato

The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza;

The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe
Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear

go

Touch Your
Head

Little Miss
Muffet

Old MacDonald; Giggle, Giggle,

To Market, To Market Quack; Cock-a-doodle-doo! Barnyard

Hullabaloo; The Grumpy Morning

Farmer in the Dell, Sheep in a

Warthogs in the Kitchen Jeep, Amelia Bedelia books;
Ferdinand the Bull

Mrs. Wishy Washy

ou, oi, ue, er, ar 5 Little

Pumpkins

Mrs. Wishy Washy series: Farm,

Wishy-Washy Clothes, the Big
Wash, Tub, Splishy-Sploshy

Gregory the Terrible Eater, Stone

Peanut Butter and Jelly Soup, If you Give a Mouse a Cookie,
If You Give a Moose a Muffin

Thanksgiving
break, No
School 11/27
& 11/28

11/26

Little Red Hen

12/1

Silly Sally

Silly Billy, Today I Feel Silly,

Don't Be Silly Mrs. Millie

to

12/8

Napping House

Alexander and the Terrible,

Horrible, No Good, Very Bad
Day; Eloise

have

12/15

Gingerbread Man

12/221/2

Gingerbread Baby, Gingerbread

Boy, Gingerbread Girl, The
Gingerbread Man Loose in School

Christmas
Break

Christmas Break (No School)

an

London Bridge

Gingerbread
Man Chant

1/5

Are You My Mother?; Baa, Baa,

Moo, Moo, Brown Cow Black Sheep; Barnyard Dance;
Big Red Barn

1/12

Goodnight Gorilla

Curious George books; Peek-aZoo!; The Great Escape from

City Zoo; 1, 2, 3 To the Zoo

1/19

Hattie & the Fox

Feathers and Fools, Chicken

Little; Interrupting Chicken

1/26

2/2

Golden Bear

2/9

Red Riding Hood

Little Red Writing; Stellaluna;

Hansel and Gretel; Strega Nona;
I Love You Forever (V-day book)

2/23

Humpty Dumpty

am

1, 2 Buckle My
Shoe

play

Star Light, Star

Bright

are

I'm a little
Snowman

for

See You Later

Alligator

Valentine's
Day

you

Skin-na-ma-rink

President's
Day

this

Little Bo Peep

Dr. M. L. King
Jr. Day

Thomas' Snowsuit, Polar Express,

Polar Bear, Polar Bear The Snowman, My Little Polar Bear,
The Jacket I Wear in the Snow

Velveteen Rabbit, Clifford books,

The Wizard of Oz, Tale of Peter
Rabbit

2/16

is

The Truth about the 3 Billy Goats

Three Billy Goats Gruff Gruff (Otfinoski); The Boy Who

Cried Wolf, Rumpelstiltskin

Three Little Pigs

True Story of the 3 Pigs, 3 Little

Wolves & Big Bad Pig, Pigs
(Munsch); The Tortoise and the
Hare

do

This Little
Piggie

and

Teddy Bear,
Teddy Bear,
Turn Around

what

It's Raining,
It's Pouring

Goldilocks and the Three Hares,

3/2

Goldilocks & the Three Goldilocks Has Chicken Pox,

Rapunzel, The Golden Goose,
Little Bears
Thumbelina

3/9

3/16

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs,

It Looked Like Spilt Milk Pickles in Pittsburg, The Cloud Book,

Shapes in the Sky

Daylight
Savings

What the Weather Like Today?,

*Additional
What Shall We Do
W is for Wind, Weather Words Spring Break,
When We All Go Out? and What they Mean, Feel the
unless snow
Wind
days

review

review

Spring Break (No School)

3/23

Stormy Weather, What Will the

Weather Be?, Four Seasons Make a
Year, All the Colors of the Rainbow

3/30

Rain, Rain, Go Away

4/6

Chick and the Duckling

4/13

There Was an Old Lady

Swallowed Series: Bat, Chick, Clover,
Who Swallowed a Fly

4/20

4/27

5/4

Elmer; Country Mouse, City

Mouse; Me too!; Rosie's Walk

Easter,
April 5

There Was an Old Lady Who

Pie, Shell, Snow, Some Leaves

little

Row, Row, Row

Your Boat

said

Little Bunny Foo

Foo

here

Always Be
Sunshine

The Very Hungry

Caterpillar

Quick as a Cricket, Chickens Aren't

the Only Ones, Eency Weency
Spider, Grouchy Ladybug, Over in
the Meadow

was

Head, Thorax,
Abdomen

Down by the Bay

Is Your Mama a Llama?; Froggy

Went a-Courtin', Ants Go Marching;
And To Think I Saw It On Mulbery
Street

she

Fuzzy Wuzzy

Kate & Beanstalk, Lion & the

Jack and the Beanstalk Mouse; the Giving Tree; The
Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs

he

Apple Tree

5/11

Jump, Frog, Jump

The Frog Prince, The Frog

Princess, Frog and Toad books

has

Mr. Sun

5/18

The Enormous
Watermelon

The Great Big Turnip,

Blueberries for Sal, The Gigant
Carrot, The Big Beet

look

Make New
Friends

Memorial Day (No

School); 5/29
Last Student day

with

review Poems

June 1:
teacher work
day (unless
snow days)

my

review Poems

5/25

Oh the Places You'll Go, Oh the

Favorite Big Books: Year
Thinks You Will Think, Little
Review
Engine that Could

6/1

Favorite Big Books: Year

Bloomer, Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse,
Review

Harold's Puprle Crayon, Leo the Late

Miss Nelson, Olivia

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