Kindergarten Curriculum

Listening and Speaking Skills

• Tell or retell a personal experience or creative story in logical sequence
• Follow simple directions
• Share ideas, information, opinions and questions
• Listen and respond to stories, poems and non-fiction
• Participate in group discussions

Reading Skills

• Identify characters in a story and retell stories in sequence
• Predict elements and events in a story
• Identify facts in nonfiction material
• Use whole language and phonics to read simple words
• Comprehend the meaning of simple written selections, using prior knowledge, letter/sound relationship and picture clues
• Recognize and read beginning commonly used words
• Distinguish between upper and lower case letters
• Develop phonic awareness

Writing Skills

• Relate a narrative, creative story or other communication by drawing, telling and writing individually and within a group
• Spell simple words
• Copy the 26 letters of the alphabet, upper and lower case
• Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., capitalization, punctuation)

Social and Emotional Skills

• Follow simple rules
• Use creative thinking skills and imagination to solve problems
• Work cooperatively with and show respect to classmates
• Use and develop rational and critical thinking

Number Sense

• Count to thirty with manipulatives and practice rote counting
• Identify numbers through thirty in and out of order
• Write numbers through thirty in and out of order
• Recognize ordinal numbers through the fifth
• Identify penny, nickel, dime, quarter and dollar by using manipulatives and/or pictures
• Solve word problems using numbers 0-9 using addition and subtraction
• Identify the symbols +, -, =

Measurement

• Compare quantities (more, less, equal, unequal)
• Compare objects (size, height, weight, length)
• Compare volume (more, less)
• Compare area (big, small)

Operations

• Model addition through sums of 10 using manipulatives
• Model subtraction with minuends using manipulatives
• Introduce and solve word problems using addition and subtraction through 9

Patterns

• Create different patterns involving everyday life
• Identify and continue a pattern with materials
• Identify geometric shapes
• Sort materials by common features
• Create and experience graphs

Art

• Use color and texture in artwork
• Identify and use a variety of art media
• Identify various subject matter, ideas and symbols used in own work and the work of others
• Begin to look at and talk about art
• Engage in open ended art activities

Science

• Display a curiosity about the world
• Cooperate with classmates to solve problems
• Understand that questioning is part of the scientific process
• Discover ways scientists make observations and solve problems

Development of Concepts

• Identify and explain that descriptions about natural occurrences can be sorted in different ways
• Identify that in the natural world cause-and- effect relationships exist
• Use and design models to understand natural occurrences
• Recognize that in the natural world change occurs
• Identify the relationship between the function of an organism and its structure

Health

• Describe how different people and places can give us help when needed
• Name ways to avoid germs
• Give examples of nutritious snacks
• Describe proper dental care

Physical Growth

• Play simple, non-competitive games
• Demonstrate understanding of simple directions (up, down, high, low)
• Display a sense of risk-taking
• Balance the body while doing simple stunts
• Catch a large object with two hands

Social Studies

• Recognize that accepting responsibility and having rules is important
• Describe the different ways families celebrate special events or holidays
• Demonstrate appropriate ways to communicate wants or needs
• Use a calendar daily to identify the days of the week and the months of the year
• Compare how clothing differs because of the changes in weather
• Use a calendar to locate events including birthdays, holidays and school events
• Recognize national symbols and icons that represent American democracy

Music

• Use different movements (clap, stomp, pat, jump) and play a steady beat with a group
• Sing, using voices that are fast or slow, loud or soft
• Change voice to match different pitches
• Sing a variety of songs
• Echo short rhythms and melodic patterns.