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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