Welcome to Kindergarten
Welcome to Kindergarten
We welcome you to page for our Kindergarten parents. These are exciting times for your child. Here is a listing of our Kindergarten curriculum.
Math
Counting and Cardinality
- Know number names and the count sequence.
- Count to tell the number of objects.
- Count to tell the number of objects.
- Compare numbers.
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
- Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from.
Number and Operations in Base Ten
- Work with numbers 11-19 to gain foundations for place value.
Measurement and Data
- Describe and compare measurable attributes.
- Classify objects and count the number of objects in each category.
Geometry
- Identify and describe shapes
- Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes.
Language Arts
Reading Literature
- Key Ideas and Details
- Craft and Structure
- Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
- Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Reading Informational
- Key Ideas and Details
- Craft and Structure
- Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
- Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Reading Foundational
- Print Concepts
- Phonological Awareness
- Phonics and Word Recognition
- Fluency
Writing
- Text Types and Purposes
- Production and Distribution of Writing
- Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Speaking and Listening
- Comprehension and Collaboration
- Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Language
- Conventions of Standard English
- Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Science
- Use the senses to make observations
- Ask questions about the world around them
- Collect data about living and non-living things
- Identify different types of technologies at home, in the classroom, and/or in the world
- Identify similarities and differences between plants and animals
- Identify differences between living and non-living things
- Identify ways in which some offspring are very much like their parents, although not exactly
- Classify objects by their attributes (e.g., physical properties, materials of which they are made)
- Identify that objects that will fall to the ground unless something is holding them up
- Report and describe weather changes from day to day and over the seasons
- Identify different types of celestial objects seen in the day and night sky
Social Studies
- Explain change and continuity over time, using calendars and simple timelines
- Describe historically significant events and observances in American history
- Identify rules that apply in different settings and the results from complying or not complying with these rules
- Describe his or her rights and demonstrate responsibilities of self in classroom, school, and neighborhood settings
- Demonstrate ways to improve the quality of life in own school or community
- Explain how and why people from different cultures observe different holidays/celebrations
- Identify location and physical characteristics represented on maps and globes (e.g., land, water, roads, cities)
- Use terms to describe relative location (i.e., above/below, near/far, left/right, and cardinal directions)
- Explain people's basic needs and how they fulfill them
- Differentiate buyers (e.g., a parent or caregiver) and sellers (e.g., a storeowner or other producer)
Career and Technical Education
- Explain that current learning relates to life outside the classroom
- Identify various workers and their jobs in the community
Health
- Describe appropriate ways to express feelings
- Explain the benefits associated with exercise
- Describe barriers and situations that are safe, risky, or harmful to self and others
- Describe how individuals can promote and protect their own health
- Describe helpful and harmful substances and their proper use
- Describe the benefits associated with personal cleanliness
- Describe the signs and symptoms of common illness and strategies one can use to avoid spreading or catching illnesses
- Name people in the school and community who provide health support for others
- Use effective and appropriate ways to express feelings, wants, and needs
- Describe basic refusal skills
- Describe how to be a good friend and responsible family member
Arts
- Use developmentally appropriate art vocabulary
- Use developmentally appropriate art media, tools, and processes
- Create art that expresses feelings about a familiar subject
- Explain preferences for particular works of art
- Explain the concept that all artwork is meant to be appreciated and some artwork is also meant to be useful
- Use singing voice to echo short melodic patterns in appropriate range
- Demonstrate simple representation of high and low, short and long, loud and soft, fast and slow
- Use an instrument to maintain a steady beat using quarter notes and quarter rests
- Identify various sources of music that can be heard in daily life and their purpose
- Perform imitative movements
- Explain how theatrical performances often cause emotional reactions
- Demonstrate how cultures have used dramatic play to express human experience
- Use body, energy, space, and time to move in different ways
- Create movements that represent ideas, persons, and places
- Use movement to respond to a variety of stimuli, such as observed dance, words, sounds and songs
- Perform a folk/traditional dance from another culture
Physical Education
- Use basic locomotor skills in initial (immature) form alone, with a partner, and in small groups (e.g., walking, running, jumping, hopping, leaping, sliding, galloping, skipping).
- Use basic movement concepts related to space, time, effort, and relationships (e.g., personal space, fast/slow, strong/light, under/over)
- Identify basic rules for safe participation in physical activities
- Participate regularly in physical activities
World Languages
- Use greetings, leave-takings, and simple courtesy expressions
- Recognize key vocabulary in songs or children's recitations
- Sing children's songs or recitations