Kindergarten Curriculum
Language Arts:
Identify, write and match capital and lower case letters
Identify initial and final consonant and short vowel sounds
Identify and produce rhyming words.
Participate in Phonemic Awareness activities.
Learn concepts about print (left to right directionality; identify title, author of book,
and punctuation; find beginning, middle and ending of sentences and words)
Listen to core literature books and participate in follow-up activities.
Use Reading Strategies (predict, infer, summarize, sequence, compare and contrast,
fantasy vs. realism, note details)
Participate in formal and informal listening and speaking activities.
Write brief sentences that are legible
Use letters and phonetically spelled words to write about experiences, stories, people,
objects of events.
Write consonant-vowel-consonant words.
Read books at student’s individual level, with emphasis on comprehension and
decoding skills.
Read some basic sight words and consonant-vowel-consonant words.
Mathematics:
Geometry:
Identify & describe common geometric objects (circle, triangle, square, rectangle, cube, sphere,
cone)
Compare familiar plane and solid objects by common attributes (position, shape, size, roundness,
number of corners).
Measurement:
Measure and compare the height, length, and weight of objects; experiment with volume
Know days of week, use vocabulary today, tomorrow, and yesterday.
Identify time with specific activities of the day,
Tell time to the hour
Money: Identify and know the value of the penny, nickel, and dime
Number Sense:
Numbers 0-31 (exposure to 100) writing numerals, counting sets, comparing sets, making graphs,
predicting/ estimating
Counting: counting by 1’s, 5’s, 10’s; Counting backwards from 20-0
Addition /Subtraction – two numbers up to 10 with manipulatives solving and creating number stories
Algebra: and Functions:
Sort & Classify objects into sets
Statistics, Data Analysis and Probability
Collect data, and record the results using objects, pictures and picture graph
Identify, describe and extend simple patterns.
Mathematical Reasoning:
Determine the approach, materials, and strategies to be used.
Use tools and strategies, such as manipulatives or sketches, to model problems.
Solve problems in reasonable ways and justify their reasoning
Social Studies:
· Learn to work together, and what it means to be a good citizen
· Recognize national and state symbols
· Learn about people and places in a community.
· Compare and contrast locations of people, and places
· Learn to read simple maps and globes.
· Learn that history relates to events, people and places of other times through holidays, famous people and stories about life long ago.
Science:
Basic Units Include:
Plants, Animals,
Our Earth Our Home,
Weather,
Exploring Matter,
Investigate Water
Physical Sciences:
Learn that properties of material can be observed, measured and predicted
Life Sciences:
Learn that different types of plants and animals inhabit the earth
Earth Sciences
Learn the earth is composed of land and water (learn about landforms, mountains, rivers, oceans, valleys, changes in weather form day to day, and over seasons, and about earth’s resources and conservation.
Investigation and Experimentation:
Learn through hands on experiences that the scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations.
Students observe, describe properties, compare, sort, and communicate observations
Physical Education
Movement Concepts:
Travel within a large group, without bumping into others, or falling while using
locomotor skills (jumping, hopping, skipping, etc.)
Travel forward and sideways while changing direction quickly
Demonstrate contrast between slow and fast speeds.
Create shapes at high, medium and low levels using hands arms, torso, feet
Demonstrate the relationship of under, over, behind, next to, through, right, left,
up, down, forward, backward, and in front of by using the body and an object.
Manipulative Skills
Explain the role of the eyes when striking objects with the hands, arms, and feet.
Identify the point of contact for kicking a ball in a straight line.
Describe the position of the fingers in the follow-through phase of bouncing a ball continuously.
Self-Responsibility/ Social Interaction
Participate in group activities,
Demonstrate characteristics of sharing in physical activity.
Participate as a leader and a follower during physical activity.
Health
Fitness Concepts
Identify physical activities that are enjoyable and challenging.
Describe the role of water as an essential nutrient for the body.
Explain that nutritious food provides energy for physical activity.
Aerobic Capacity
Identify the location of the heart and explain that it is a muscle.
Explain that physical activity increases the heart rate.
Identify the location of the lungs and explain the role of the lungs in the collection
of oxygen.
Muscular Strength/Endurance
Explain that strong muscles help the body to climb, hang, push, and pull.
Describe the role of muscles in moving the bones.
Flexibility
Identify the body part involved when stretching.
Body Composition
Explain that the body is composed of bones, organs, fat, and other tissues
Art
ü Students perceive, and respond to works of art.
Identify realistic and abstract works of art,
Identify landscapes, portraits, still life
Identify lines, shapes, texture and color in art
Respond to, analyze their own works of art
Use art vocabulary, describe what they see, give reasons why they like a particular work of art they made.
Use a variety of media and techniques to produce art
· Use lines, shapes/forms, and colors to make patterns.
· Use of scissors, glue, and paper in creating a three-dimensional construction.
· Make a collage with cut or torn paper shapes/forms.
· Paint pictures expressing ideas about family and neighborhood.
· Use lines in drawings and paintings to express feelings.
· Create a three-dimensional form, such as a real or imaginary animal
