Kindergarten

Curriculum Expectations

        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.

   

           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.

    

         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.

    

        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

 

       Physical Education                       

  • Demonstrate basic loco motor and non-loco motor 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 loco motor movement (walking, hopping, galloping, and skipping).

  • Recognize repetition and contrast in music.

  • Experience duple and triple meter.

        Fine Arts - Art

  • Recognize primary and secondary colors.

  • Recognize and use curved and straight lines.

  • Recognize circle, square, triangle, and rectangle shapes.

  • Identify relative size, center of interest, close and faraway.

  • Create patterns.

  • Develop and apply skills learned through the use of basic art tools and material.

   

      Library / Media / IT Services   

  • Introduce basic parts of the computer, basic computer vocabulary, and basic rules for computer use and care.

  • Use appropriate software with supervision.

  • Introduce the difference between fact and fiction.

  • Introduce book care guidelines.

  • Introduce parts of a book.

  • Recognize the importance of shelf arrangement in the IMC.

  • Introduce how to select books appropriately for age and interest.

    

    Personal and Social Skills

  • Work, share, and play well with others.

  • Listen attentively and show self-control.

  • Follow multi-step directions.

  • Complete assigned tasks.

  • Take appropriate care of personal and school property.

   

The following is a list of some of the sight words we will learn in kindergarten.  We will take these very slowly and learn them one at a time. 

a

the

I

like

go

we

on

to

you

have

do

what

no

see

look

come

for

me

one

little

are

here

my

red

black

brown

white

pink

purple

two

three

four

nine

ten

and

he

in

it

of

that

was

you

green

orange

five

six

seven

eight

yellow

blue

is

said