Kindergarten
Build vocabulary, discover story elements, develop listening and speaking skills using a combination of discussion, drawing, and writing.
Through the Amplify Kindergarten Knowledge Domains, students engage with a variety of texts and topics to build vocabulary, develop an understanding of story elements, and practice the speaking and listening skills essential to academic success. Amplify’s content-driven Knowledge Domains provide students opportunities to express their understanding through a combination of discussion, drawing, and writing. They build student background knowledge in a range of topics ideal for making New Hampshire history connections including nursery rhymes and fables, seasons and weather, plants, farms, Native Americans, and colonial American life. The Moose x Amplify lessons extend and reinforce ELA skills as well as the social studies skills that are embedded in the Amplify lessons: sequencing events, comparing topics or images, and identifying connections between individuals and their communities.
Amplify Knowledge Domain | Amplify Lesson | Objective Connection | Moose Lesson | More to Explore |
| Unit 1: Nursery Rhymes and Fables | Lesson 4B: Little Miss Muffet | Students will identify the main characters, details, and events in nursery rhymes. | MxA Lesson: Sarah Had a Little Lamb | |
| Unit 3: Stories | Lesson 2: The Three Little Pigs | Students will sequence the events of a literary text. | MxA Lesson: Classic New Hampshire Children's Book | |
| Lesson 10: Tug-of-War | Students will identify a trickster tale as a type of fiction. Students will explain the actions of the main character in a trickster tale. | MxA Lesson: Where Gluskabe Camps | ||
| Unit 4: Plants | Lesson 2: Plant Parts | Students will identify different parts of a plant and the function of each. | MxA Lesson: Wild About Wildflowers | |
| Lesson 9: Evergreen Trees | Students will compare and contrast deciduous and evergreen trees. | MxA Lesson: Evergreens Everywhere | ||
| Lesson 10: Plants and People | Students will describe ways plants are helpful to people. | MxA Lesson: Is Maple Syrup a Need or a Want? | ||
| Unit 5: Farms Check out Moose Unit 8: Changing Times on the Farm for related resources | Lesson 1: Old MacDonald Had a Farm | Students will explain why a farm is important. | MxA Lesson: New Hampshire Farms Long Ago and Today | |
| Lesson 2: With a Moo, Moo Here | Students will use details to describe cows. Students will identify the main idea and key details of an informational text about cows. | MxA Lesson: New Hampshire Dairy Farms | Virtual Field Trip: Wicked Old Farms and Fairs (just farm parts) | |
| Lesson 5: Everywhere a Baa, Baa | Students will identify the main idea and key details of an informational text about sheep. Students will demonstrate and understanding of the multiple meaing word "pen." | MxA Lesson: Sheep and Stone Walls | ||
| Lesson 8: Seasons of Farming | Students will describe events in the farming seasons. | MxA Lesson: Agricultural Fairs and Farmers Markets | Virtual Field Trip: Wicked Old Fairs and Farms (just the fairs part) | |
| Unit 6: Native Americans Check out Moose Unit 2: The Abenaki before 1600 for related resources | Lesson 1: Introduction to Native Americans | Students will demonstrate important background information about Native Americans. | MxA Lesson: People of the Dawn | |
| Lesson 7: A Native American Alphabet | Students will identify and describe the geographic locations of several Native American tribes. Students will identify various items, homes, and foods from different Native American tribes. | MxA Lesson: Meeting Needs Long Ago | ||
| Lesson 8: Native Americans Today | Students will explain how Native Americans live today. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the Tier 2 word "traditions." | MxA Lesson: The Abenaki Today | ||
| Unit 8: Seasons and the Weather Check out Moose Unit 1: New Hampshire Geography for related resources | Lesson 2: Winter | Students will identify and describe the characteristics of winter. | MxA Lesson: Winter Snow and Ice | |
| Lesson 3: Spring | Students will identify and describe the characteristics of spring. | MxA Lesson: Spring Showers and Flowers | ||
| Lesson 4: Summer | Students will identify and describe the characteristics of summer. | MxA Lesson: Summer Sun and Fun | ||
| Lesson 5: Autumn | Students will identify and describe the characteristics of autumn. Students will compare and contrast the characteristics of winter, spring, and summer, and identify the months that correspond to fall. | MxA Lesson: Autumn Views and Colors | ||
| Lesson 8: Meteorology | Students will use a writing lesson to predict the weather and orally present their predictions in a weather report. | MxA Lesson: What's the Weather? | ||
| Unit 10: Colonial Towns Check out Moose Unit 3: Settling New Hampshire and Moose Unit 4: Building a Colony for related resources | Lesson 1: The Country Family | With asisstance, students will compare and contrast colonial life with present-day life. | MxA Lesson: What's Cooking in the Kitchen? | |
| Lesson 2: A Trip to Town | Students will use key details to describe different types of tradespeople in colonial times. | MxA Lesson: Bartering in a Colonial New Hampshire Town | ||
| Lesson 3: The Breadmakers: Millers and Bakers | Students will use key details to describe the process of making bread in colonial times. | MxA Lesson: How Do Rivers Power Mills? | ||
| Lesson 4: The Clothmakers: Spinners and Weavers | Students will identify the term "cloth" and describe differences between where people got their clothes in colonial times and where we get our clothing today. | MxA Lesson: Flax to Linen | ||
| Lesson 5: Dressmakers, Tailors, Hatters, and Cobblers | Speaking and Listening: Students will identify differences between clothes in colonial times and where we get our clothing today. Reading: Students will describe the types of tradespeople associated with making clothes and describe their jobs and tools using key details. | MxA Lesson: Making Shoes Long Ago | ||
| Lesson 7: The Housebuilders | Students will use key details to describe how hourse were built in colonial times. | MxA Lesson: Building for a Community | ||
| Lesson 8: The Blacksmith | Students will describe the job of a blacksmith and why it is important. | MxA Lesson: Mapping a Colonial Town | ||
| Unit 11: Taking Care of the Earth | Lesson 3: Natural Resources | Students will identify and describe natural resources and explain why they are important. | MxA Lesson: New Hampshire's Natural Resources | |
| Lesson 9: Willy the Waterdrop | Students will differentiate between freshwater and wastewater and will explain why having clean water is important. | MxA Lesson: Taking Care of Our Rivers |