Kindergarden Read - Aloud

Presidents and American Symbols: Supplemental Guide 9 | Carving Mount Rushmore 139

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 Lesson Objectives

Core Content Objectives

Students will:

 Identify the Mount Rushmore presidents

 Identify Mount Rushmore as a monument

 Explain that Mount Rushmore was carved on Native American sacred

land

Language Arts Objectives

The following language arts objectives are addressed in this lesson.

Objectives aligning with the Common Core State Standards are noted

with the corresponding standard in parentheses. Refer to the Alignment

Chart for additional standards addressed in all lessons in this domain.

Students will:

 With prompting and support, identify the main topic—Mount

Rushmore—and retell key details about this monument (RI.K.2)

 With prompting and support, describe the role of an author and

illustrator in a trade book about Mount Rushmore (RI.K.6)

 Identify real-life connections between words—sculptor, monument,

and determined—and their use (L.K.5c)

Core Vocabulary

carved, v. Cut out

Example: Haley carved a face into her pumpkin with a knife.

Variation(s): carve, carves, carving

determined, adj. Deciding to do something and not letting anything stop

you

Example: The determined children waited in the long line on a hot,

summer afternoon for an ice cream cone.

Variation(s): none