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

•  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

Attitudes and Habits

•  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

•  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

•  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