
Year-Long Trajectory
Trajectory Guidance
The Year-Long Trajectory is your scope and sequence for learning experiences across the year. A scope and sequence maps a pathway for ongoing learning in various content areas along with the experiences that support children’s learning as they grow and develop. SEE Every Child is arranged by monthly content areas, leading with the Big Ideas that ground learning experiences. This year-long trajectory is the foundation for our mission to ensure that all young children in Somerville have equitable access to a curriculum approach where they are engaged in joyful, robust, challenging, child-centered experiences grounded in play, discovery, and their own interests, and guided by state and national learning standards. Use it as you plan for each month to ensure that children are receiving the learning experiences they need to grow and thrive.
September
Big Ideas
Who am I? How do I make friends? I am part of a group. I have feelings and my friends do too.
Anti-Bias Education
Me and My Friends: I know and like who I am, naming self identities, noticing similarities and differences in self, others, families
Mathematical Thinking
Science and Engineering
Social Emotional Learning
Oral Language and Concept Development
Fine Motor, Drawing, and Writing
Expressive and Written Language
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
October
Big Ideas
Anti-Bias Education
Mathematical Thinking
Science and Engineering
Social Emotional Learning
Oral Language and Concept Development
Fine Motor, Drawing, and Writing
Expressive and Written Language
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
November
Big Ideas
Anti-Bias Education
Mathematical Thinking
Science and Engineering
Social Emotional Learning
Oral Language and Concept Development
Fine Motor, Drawing, and Writing
Expressive and Written Language
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
December
Big Ideas
Anti-Bias Education
Families: Describing, noticing similarities and differences in identities, noticing differences in beliefs and how people live
Mathematical Thinking
Science and Engineering
Social Emotional Learning
Oral Language and Concept Development
Fine Motor, Drawing, and Writing
Expressive and Written Language
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
January
Big Ideas
Anti-Bias Education
Mathematical Thinking
Science and Engineering
Social Emotional Learning
Oral Language and Concept Development
Group surveys, problem solving discussions, turn and talk, Big Books and shared/interactive reading, prompt retelling and summarizing, support reciprocal conversational exchanges
Fine Motor, Drawing, and Writing
Expressive and Written Language
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
February
Big Ideas
- Light and Shadow
- Kindness and Fairness
Anti-Bias Education
Mathematical Thinking
Science and Engineering
Social Emotional Learning
Oral Language and Concept Development
Fine Motor, Drawing, and Writing
Expressive and Written Language
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
March
Big Ideas
- Music and Sound
- Weather
- Babies
- Kindness and Fairness
Anti-Bias Education
Civil Rights: Recognizing unfairness and injustice, unfairness hurts, people can stop unfairness and make life better, we can speak up together
Mathematical Thinking
Science and Engineering
Social Emotional Learning
Oral Language and Concept Development
Group surveys, problem solving discussions, turn and talk, non-fiction texts, prompt retelling and summarizing, support reciprocal conversational exchanges
Fine Motor, Drawing, and Writing
Expressive and Written Language
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
April
Big Ideas
- Growing and Changing
- Birds
- Changemakers
Anti-Bias Education
Mathematical Thinking
Science and Engineering
Social Emotional Learning
Oral Language and Concept Development
Fine Motor, Drawing, and Writing
Expressive and Written Language
Story Telling Story Acting, Journals, Invented spelling and use of vocabulary cards, math/science journals, webs for planning, message center
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
May/June
Big Ideas
- Growing and Changing
- Changemakers
Anti-Bias Education
Change Makers: Speaking up when something is unfair, Working with others to make change, kindness
Mathematical Thinking
Science and Engineering
Social Emotional Learning
Oral Language and Concept Development
Share and revising student work, peer feedback, poetry and rhyming, support reciprocal conversational exchanges, same/different, content vocabulary
Fine Motor, Drawing, and Writing
Expressive and Written Language
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
July/August
Anti-Bias Education
Mathematical Thinking
Science and Engineering
Social Emotional Learning
Prepare for transition to kindergarten, speaking up, listening, identify feelings, calming downs steps, invitation to play
Oral Language and Concept Development
Share and revising student work, peer feedback, poetry and rhyming, support reciprocal conversational exchanges, same/different, content vocabulary
Fine Motor, Drawing, and Writing
Expressive and Written Language
Story Telling Story Acting, Journals, Invented spelling and use of vocabulary cards, math/science journals, webs for planning, message center, author’s chair
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
Writing group poems and songs, sandpaper letters 3 period lesson with weekly focus letters, and sand trays, letter symbol activities, breaking words apart, invented spelling