Kindergarten Curriculum

LANGUAGE ARTS
 
READING

·          Listens to Stories

·          Demonstrates book-handling skills

·          Distinguishes letters from words

·          Writes from left to right

·          Uses pictures to predict meaning

·          Prints name, alphabet letters and numerals

·          Displays reading-like behavior

·          Recognizes that print contains a message

·          Associates initial letters to the sound they represent

·          Matches and identifies upper and lower case letters

·          Recognizes sight words

·          Writes independently using letters and/or pictures represented

·          Retells stories

·          Responds to stories

·          Identifies beginning, middle and end of story

·          Selects materials to read for pleasure

 

WRITING
         ∙    Holds pencil
         ∙    Plans what to write
         ∙    Writes from left to right
         ∙    Focuses on topic
         ∙    Prints name, alphabet letters and numerals
         ∙    Uses letters to represent words
         ∙    Writes independently using letters and/or pictures to show what has been learned
         ∙    Observes the teacher editing his/her work
         ∙    Uses knowledge and experiences to support writing
         ∙    Identifies letters on a keyboard
         ∙    Dictates simple instructions

LISTENING, VIEWING, AND SPEAKING
         ∙    Listens for a variety of purposes
         ∙    Uses conversation to communicate a message
         ∙    Distinguishes between asking and telling
         ∙    Recognizes and uses gestures and eye contact to enhance communication
         ∙    Speaks clearly and at an appropriate volume in large or small groups
         ∙    Speaks in complete sentences
         ∙    Participates in group plays, stories, songs, poems

LANGUAGE
         ∙    Uses language for a variety of purposes
         ∙    Expands his/her vocabulary
         ∙    Recognizes that pictures, songs, and videos influence thoughts and feelings

LITERATURE
         ∙    Identifies repetition, rhyme and rhythm
         ∙    Identifies and names letters in any order
         ∙    Identifies and differentiates between fantasy and realism
         ∙    Recognizes basic story elements
         ∙    Understands a story conveys a message
         ∙    Links personal experiences to a work of literature
         ∙    Uses prior knowledge
         ∙    Recognizes basic characteristics of fable, stories, legends

MATHEMATICS
 
NUMBER SENSE, CONCEPTS & OPERATIONS
         ∙    Understands the different ways numbers are represented and used in the real-world
         ∙    Reads and writes numerals 0-20
         ∙    Uses ordinal numbers to 10
         ∙    Counts by rote to 30
         ∙    Tells number that comes before and after 1-10
         ∙    Understands greater/lesser/same/zero
         ∙    Understands objects to represent whole numbers to real-world situations
         ∙    Understands that numbers are represented in a number of different ways
         ∙    Counts to find the number of objects in a set
         ∙    Recognizes, duplicates, and extends simple number patterns
         ∙    Uses manipulative to explore + and – of sets
         ∙    Solves specific problems involving addition and subtraction
         ∙    Estimates number of objects in a set
         ∙    Estimates to judge reasonableness of a solution

MEASUREMENT
         ∙    Explores measurement involving length, weight, time, temperature, and capacity
         ∙    Knows the days of the week
         ∙    Uses customary, metric, and nonstandard units (such as links or blocks) in measuring real quantities
         ∙    Orders objects according to a given measurable characteristic
         ∙    Shows an understanding of the real-world units used to measure various quantities
         ∙    Uses a variety of strategies to estimate/compare lengths and widths using nonstandard units
         ∙    Selects and uses an object to serve as a nonstandard unit of measure
         ∙    Identifies various measuring tools

GEOMETRY
         ∙    Recognizes, reproduces, and names basic shapes
         ∙    Uses positional and directional vocabulary
         ∙    Explains symmetry
         ∙    Explores slides and turns
         ∙    Knows that some shapes have faces, edges, corners, and bases
         ∙    Can order numbers 1-10 or higher on a number line

ALGEBRAIC THINKING
         ∙    Recognizes, copies, extends, compares, and creates a wide variety of patterns using sounds, objects, and symbols
         ∙    Understands that geometric symbols can be used to represent unknown quantities

DATA ANALYSIS AND PROBABILITY
         ∙    Organizes information in graph form
         ∙    Collects and classifies physical objects and pictures
         ∙    Uses a graph to determine information
         ∙    Analyzes real-world data to make predictions, collect and display data, and generalize the results
         ∙    Understands basic concepts of chance and probability
         ∙    Predicts which simple event is likely, equally likely, or less likely to occur
         ∙    Decides what information is appropriate and how data can be collected, displayed, and interpreted to answer relevant questions
         ∙    Uses objects to explore combinations

SCIENCE

THE NATURE OF MATTER
         ∙   Knows that objects can be sorted and compared by color, size and shape

ENERGY
         ∙   Understands that food is needed for people to do work

FORCE AND MOTION
         ∙   Knows that force and motion are related

PROCESSES THAT SHAPE THE EARTH
         ∙   Knows that solid materials that make up the Earth come in all sizes.  Some materials are as large as boulders and some are as small as grains of sand
         ∙   Recognizes that different things live in different environments

EARTH AND SPACE
         ∙   Knows the sky looks different during the day than it does at night
         ∙   Knows that some of the objects seen in the day and night sky

PROCESS OF LIFE
         ∙   Knows that all living things need water, air, shelter, space, and food

HOW LIVING THINGS INTERACT WITH THEIR ENVIRONMENT
         ∙   Knows that if living things do not get food, water, shelter, and space, they will die

THE NATURE OF SCIENCE
         ∙   Knows how to do simple scientific experiments
         ∙   Uses reading and writing skills in science activities
         ∙   Treats living things with respect and responsibility
         ∙   Uses science equipment correctly
         ∙   Works well with classmates when doing science activities and tasks
         ∙   Makes known his/her findings and ideas
         ∙   Keeps records or a journal of science experiments
         ∙   Applies the scientific process in an experiment and/or science project