Curriculum

Expectations

for

Kindergarten

McLean County

Unit District No. 5

Kindergarten

Curriculum Expectations

This brochure is intended to provide parents and community members with a listing of important curriculum expectations established for the Unit 5 school district kindergarten students. The lists do not contain all of the content or skills that Unit 5 students will be exposed to during a school year. A more complete listing is used by teachers to prepare lessons and activities on a daily basis; however, the following should help parents and teachers as they discuss the academic progress of Unit 5 students.

Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions regarding the curriculum.

Mrs. Kraft

Language Arts / Reading

Identify letters, letter sounds, and sight words
Make predictions and connect parts of a story to previous experience.
Recognize the elements of a story (main character, problem, solution).
Answer questions about the main idea for different types of literature.
Verbally express ideas in simple, complete sentences.
Listen attentively to an oral message for an appropriate length of time.
Retell a story that has been read or told out loud.
Develop a sense of phonemic awareness.
Formulate ideas through drawing pictures and writing words and sentences.
Identify beginning/ending sounds, blends, and rhyming words.

Science

· Understand and apply concepts and processes of scientific inquiry.

· Perform simple scientific experiments, asking appropriate questions, and drawing reasonable conclusions

· Life Science: Living/nonliving, needs of living things, how living things grow and change, environments

· Earth Science: Earth surface, care for earth, weather

· Physical Science: Properties of objects, states of matter, sun/light, push/pull

· Space and Technology: Day/night, position of sun, force/motion

Social Studies

Identify attributes of responsible citizenship.
Describe the voting process.
Explain the difference between past, present, and future time.
Describe customs and holidays celebrated in cultures.
Recognize typical American symbols.
Use maps to locate places.
Gain an understanding of American Heroes. Understand contributions of Johnny Appleseed, Christopher Columbus, Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington.

Mathematics

Identify, write, and use whole numbers in grade appropriate problem solving activities.
Organize and compare graphic data.
Count by 1’s, 5’s, and 10’s; Identify penny, nickel, dime, and quarter; tell time to the hour; begin basic calendar concepts: days of the week and months of the year.
Identify and solve addition and subtraction problems appropriate to this grade level.
Identify and compare characteristics of plane geometry figures (circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles).
Sort with attributes; understand basic uses of money; identify and produce basic patterns; understand different types of measurement.

Physical Education

Demonstrate basic locomotor and non-locomotor movements.
Recognize the importance of healthy food.
Move the body in a safe manner (special awareness).
Imitate a given rhythm pattern.
Learn classroom routines; e.g. following directions and commands and reporting to a designated area or space.

Fine Arts - Music

Clap and move to basic, steady beat.
Sing a variety of songs to develop high, middle, and low voice.
Identify the difference between the singing voice and the speaking voice.
Identify the differences in instrumental and vocal tone colors
Recognize the difference between loud and soft music
Recognize the difference between fast and slow tempos
Demonstrate basic rhythms using locomotor movement (walking, hopping, galloping, and skipping).
Recognize repetition and contrast in music
Experience duple and triple meter

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