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Kindergarten Language Arts Standards
CONCEPTS OF PRINT
ELAKR1 The student demonstrates knowledge of
concepts of print.
a. Recognizes that print and pictures (signs and
labels, newspapers, and informational
books) can inform, entertain, and persuade.
b. Demonstrates that print has meaning and
represents spoken language in written form.
c. Tracks text read from left to right and top to
bottom.
d. Distinguishes among written letters, words, and
sentences.
e. Recognizes that sentences in print are made up
of separate words.
f. Begins to understand that punctuation and
capitalization are used in all written sentences.
PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
ELAKR2 The student demonstrates the ability to
identify and orally manipulate
words and individual sounds within those spoken
words.
a. Identifies and produces rhyming words in
response to an oral prompt and distinguishes rhyming and non-rhyming words.
b. Identifies component sounds (phonemes and
combinations of phonemes) inspoken words.
c. Blends and segments syllables in spoken words.
d. Segments the phonemes in high frequency words.
e. Blends spoken phonemes to make high frequency
words.
PHONICS
ELAKR3 The student demonstrates the
relationship between letters and letter combinations of written words and the
sounds of spoken words.
a. Demonstrates an understanding that there are
systematic and predictable relationships between print and spoken sounds.
b. Recognizes and names all uppercase and
lowercase letters of the alphabet.
c. Matches all consonant and short-vowel sounds to
appropriate letters.
d. Blends individual sounds to read one-syllable
decodable words.
e. Applies learned phonics skills when reading
words and sentences in stories.
FLUENCY
ELAKR4 The student demonstrates the ability to
read orally with speed, accuracy,and expression.
a. Reads previously taught high frequency words at
the rate of 30 words correct per minute.
b. Reads previously taught grade-level text with
appropriate expression.
VOCABULARY
ELAKR5 The student acquires and uses
grade-level words to communicate effectively.
a. Listens to a variety of texts and uses new
vocabulary in oral language.
b. Discusses the meaning of words and understands
that some words have multiple
meanings.
COMPREHENSION
ELAKR6 The student gains meaning from orally
presented text.
a. Listens to and reads a variety of literary
(e.g., short stories, poems) and informational texts and materials to gain
knowledge and for pleasure.
b. Makes predictions from pictures and titles.
c. Asks and answers questions about essential
narrative elements
(e.g., beginning-middle-end, setting, characters,
problems, events, resolution)of a read-aloud text.
d. Begins to distinguish fact from fiction in a
read-aloud text.
e. Retells familiar events and stories to include
beginning, middle, and end.
f. Uses prior knowledge, graphic features
(illustrations), and graphic organizers to understand text.
g. Connects life experiences to read-aloud text.
h. Retells important facts in the student’s own
words.
WRITING
ELAKW1 The student begins to understand the
principles of writing.
a. Writes or dictates to describe familiar
persons, places, objects, or experiences.
b. Uses drawings, letters, and phonetically
spelled words to create meaning.
c. Accurately prints name, all uppercase and
lowercase letters of the
alphabet, and teacher-selected words.
d. Uses left-to-right pattern of writing.
e. Begins to use capitalization at the beginning
of sentences and punctuation (periods and question marks) at the end of
sentences.
LISTENING/SPEAKING/VIEWING
ELAKLSV1 The student uses oral and visual
skills to communicate.
a. Listens and speaks appropriately with peers and
adults.
b. Follows two-part oral directions.
c. Repeats auditory sequences (letters, words,
numbers, and rhythmic patterns).
d. Recites short poems, rhymes, songs, and stories
with repeated patterns.
e. Describes people, places, things, locations,
and actions.
f. Increases vocabulary to reflect a growing range
of interests and knowledge.
g. Communicates effectively when relating
experiences and retelling stories heard.
h. Uses complete sentences when speaking.
i. Begins to use subject-verb agreement and tense
correctly.
Kindergarten Mathematics Standards
NUMBERS AND OPERATIONS
MKN1 Students will connect numerals to the
quantities they represent.
a. Count a number of objects up to 30.
b. Produce models for number words through ten.
c. Write numerals through 20 to label sets.
d. Sequence and identify using ordinal numbers
(1st-10th).
e. Compare two or more sets of objects (1-10) and
identify which set is equal to, more than, or less than the other.
f. Estimate quantities using five and ten as
benchmarks. (e.g., 9 is one five and four more. It is closer to two fives or
one 10 than it is to one five.).
g. Use informal strategies to share objects
equally (divide) between two to three people or sets.
h. Identify coins by name and value (penny,
nickel, dime, and quarter).
i. Count out pennies to buy items that together
cost less than 30 cents.
j. Make fair trades involving combinations of
pennies and nickels or pennies and dimes.
MKN2 Students will use representations to model
addition and subtraction.
a. Use counting strategies to find out how many
items are in two sets when theyare combined.
b. Build number combinations up to 10 (e.g., 4 and
1, 2 and 3, 3 and 2, 4 and 1
for five) and for doubles to 10 (3 and 3 for six).
c. Use objects, pictures, numbers, or words to
create, solve, and explain story problems for two numbers that are each less
than 10.
MEASUREMENT
MKM1 Students will group
objects according to common properties such as color,
shape, texture, or number.
a. Compare and order objects on the basis of
length.
b. Compare and order objects on the basis of
capacity.
c. Compare and order objects on the basis of
height.
d. Compare and order objects on the basis of
weight.
MKM2 Students will understand the measurement
of calendar time.
a. Know the names of the days of the week.
b. Know the months of the year.
c. Know the four seasons.
MKM3 Students will tell time as it relates to a
daily schedule.
a. Order daily events.
b. Tell the time when daily events occur, such as
lunch, to the nearest hour.
c. Know the name of the day of the week when
weekly events occur in class.
GEOMETRY
MKG1 Students will correctly name simple two
and three-dimensional figures, and
recognize them in the environment.
a. Recognize and name the following basic
two-dimensional shapes: triangles, rectangles, squares, and circles.
b. Recognize and name the following
three-dimensional shapes: spheres (balls ) and cubes.
c. Observe concrete objects in the environment and
represent the objects using basic shapes, such as drawing a representation of
a house using a square together with a triangle for the roof.
d. Combine basic shapes into basic and more
complicated shapes, and decompose basic shapes into combinations of basic
shapes.
e. Compare geometric shapes and identify
similarities and differences of the following
two and three-dimensional shapes: triangles,
rectangles, squares, circles,
spheres, and cubes.
MKG2 Students will understand basic positional
relationships.
a. Identify when an object is beside another
object, above another object, or below another object.
b. Identify when an object is in front of another
object, behind another object, inside another object, or outside it.
MKG3 Students will identify, create, extend,
and transfer patterns from one representation
to another using actions, objects, and geometric shapes.
a. Identify a missing shape within a given pattern
of geometric shapes.
b. Extend a given pattern, and recognize
similarities in different patterns.
MKD1 Students will pose questions, collect
data, organize, and record results using
objects, pictures, and picture graphs.
MKP1 Students will solve problems that arise in
mathematics and in other contexts.
a. Solve non-routine word problems using the
strategy act out the problem oruse objects.
b. With the use of manipulatives, solve routine
word problems related to all
appropriate kindergarten math standards.
MKP2 Students will investigate, develop, and
evaluate mathematical arguments.
MKP3 Students will use the language of
mathematics to express ideas precisely.
MKP4 Students will understand how mathematical
ideas interconnect and build on one another and will apply mathematics in
other content areas.
MKP5 Students will create and use pictures,
manipulatives, models, and symbols to organize, record, and communicate
mathematical ideas.
TERMS/SYMBOLS
numbers through 30
set
longer
shorter
heavier
lighter
morning
afternoon
evening
yesterday
today
tomorrow
days of the week
months of the year
seasons
triangle
rectangle
square
circle
sphere
cube
beside
above
below
in front of
behind
inside
outside
more
less
equal
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Kindergarten
Science Standards
SKCS1
Students will be aware of the importance of curiosity, honesty, openness, and
skepticism in science and will exhibit these traits in their own efforts to
understand how the world works.
a. Raise
questions about the world around you and be willing to seek answers to some of
the questions by making careful observations (5 senses) and trying things out.
SKCS2
Students will have the computation and estimation skills necessary for
analyzing data and following scientific explanations.
a. Use whole
numbers for counting, identifying, and describing things and experiences.
b. Make
quantitative estimates of nonstandard measurements (blocks, counters)
and
check by measuring.
SKCS3
Students will use tools and instruments for observing, measuring, and
manipulating objects in scientific activities.
a. Use
ordinary hand tools and instruments to construct, measure (for example:
balance scales to determine heavy/light, weather data,
nonstandard
units for length), and look at objects (for example:
magnifiers to
look at rocks and soils).
b. Make
something that can actually be used to perform a task, using paper, cardboard,
wood, plastic, metal, or existing objects. (For example: paper plate day and
night sky models)
SKCS4
Students will use the ideas of system, model, change, and scale in exploring
scientific and technological matters.
a. Use a
model—such as a toy or a picture—to describe a feature of the primary thing.
b. Describe
changes in size, weight, color, or movement, and note which of their other
qualities remains the same. (For example, playing “Follow the Leader” and
noting the changes.)
c. Compare
very different sizes (large/small), ages (parent/baby), speeds (fast/slow),
and weights (heavy/light) of both manmade and natural things.
SKCS5
Students will communicate scientific ideas and activities clearly.
a. Describe
and compare things in terms of number, shape, texture, size, weight, color,
and motion.
b. Begin to
draw pictures that portray features of the thing being described.
Nature of
Science
SKCS6
Students will understand the important features of the process of scientific
inquiry.
Students will
apply the following to inquiry learning practices:
a. In doing
science, it is often helpful to work with a team and to share findings with
others.
b. Tools such
as rulers, magnifiers, and balance scales often give more information about
things than can be obtained by just observing things without help.
c. Much can be
learned about plants and animals by observing them closely, but care must be
taken to know the needs of living things and how to provide for them
(classroom pets).
Earth
Science
SKE1.
Students will describe time patterns (such as day to night and night to day)
and objects (such as sun, moon, stars) in the day and night sky.
a. Describe
changes that occur in the sky during the day, as day turns into night, during
the night, and as night turns into day.
b. Classify
objects according to those seen in the day sky and those seen in the night
sky.
c. Recognize
that the Sun supplies heat and light to Earth.
SKE2.
Students will describe the physical attributes of rocks and soils.
a. Use senses
to observe and group rocks by physical attributes such as large/small,
heavy/light, smooth/rough, dark/light, etc.
b. Use senses
to observe soils by physical attributes such as smell, texture, color,
particle/grain size.
c. Recognize
earth materials— soil, rocks, water, air, etc.
Physical
Science
SKP1.
Students will describe objects in terms of the materials they are made of and
their physical properties.
a. Compare and
sort materials of different composition (common materials include clay, cloth,
paper, plastic, etc.).
b. Use senses
to classify common materials, such as buttons or swatches of cloth, according
to their physical attributes (color, size, shape, weight, texture, buoyancy,
flexibility).
SKP2.
Students will investigate different types of motion.
a. Sort
objects into categories according to their motion. (straight, zigzag, round
and round, back and forth, fast and slow, and motionless)
b. Push, pull,
and roll common objects and describe their motions.
SKP3.
Students will observe and communicate effects of gravity on objects.
a. Recognize
that some things, such as airplanes and birds, are in the sky, but return to
earth.
b. Recognize
that the sun, moon, and stars are in the sky, but don’t come down.
c. Explain why
a book does not fall down if it is placed on a table, but will fall down if it
is dropped.
Life
Science
SKL1.
Students will sort living organisms and non-living materials into
groups by
observable physical attributes.
a. Recognize
the difference between living organisms and nonliving materials.
b. Group
animals according to their observable features such as appearance,
size,
motion, where it lives, etc. (Example: A green frog has four legs and hops. A
rabbit also hops.)
c. Group
plants according to their observable features such as appearance, size,
etc.
SKL2.
Students will compare the similarities and differences in groups of organisms.
a. Explain the
similarities and differences in animals. (color, size,
appearance,
etc.)
b. Explain the
similarities and differences in plants. (color, size,
appearance,
etc.)
c. Recognize
the similarities and differences between a parent and a baby.
d. Match
pictures of animal parents and their offspring explaining your reasoning.
(Example: dog/puppy; cat/kitten; cow/calf; duck/ducklings, etc.)
e. Recognize
that you are similar and different from other students. (senses, appearance)
Kindergarten
Social Studies Standards
SSKH1 The
student will identify the purpose of national holidays and describe the people
or events celebrated.
a. Labor Day
b. Columbus
Day (Christopher Columbus)
c. Veterans
Day
d.
Thanksgiving Day
e. Martin
Luther King, Jr. Day
f. Presidents
Day (George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and the current President)
g. Memorial
Day
h. Flag Day
i.
Independence Day
SSKH2 The
student will identify important American symbols and explain their meaning.
a. The
national and state flags (United
States
and Georgia
flags)
b. The bald
eagle
c. The Statue
of Liberty
d. Lincoln
Memorial
e. Washington
Monument
f. White House
g. Pledge of
Allegiance
h. Star
Spangled Banner
SSKH3 The
student will correctly use words and phrases related to chronology and time to
explain how things change.
a. Now, long
ago
b. Before,
after
c. Morning,
afternoon, night
d. Today,
tomorrow, yesterday
e. First,
last, next
f. Day, week,
month, year
g. Past,
present, future
Geographic
Understandings
SSKG1 The
student will describe American culture by explaining diverse community and
family celebrations and customs.
SSKG2 The
student will explain that a map is a drawing of a place and a globe is a model
of the Earth.
a.
Differentiate land and water features on simple maps and globes.
b. Explain
that maps and globes show a view from above.
c. Explain
that maps and globes show features in a smaller size.
SSKG3 The
student will state the street address, city, county, state, nation, and
continent in which he or she lives.
Government/Civic
Understandings
SSKCG1 The
student will demonstrate an understanding of good citizenship.
a. Explain how
rules are made and why.
b. Explain why
rules should be followed.
SSKCG2 The
student will retell stories that illustrate positive character
traits
and will explain how the people in the stories show the
qualities
of honesty, patriotism, loyalty, courtesy, respect, truth, pride,
self-control, moderation, and accomplishment.
Economic
Understandings
SSKE1 The
student will describe the work that people do (police officer, fire fighter,
soldier, mail carrier, baker, farmer, doctor, and teacher).
SSKE2 The
student will explain that people earn income by exchanging their human
resources (physical or mental work) for wages or salaries.
SSKE3 The
student will explain how money is used to purchase goods and services.
a. Distinguish
goods from services.
b. Identify
various forms of U.S.
money (coins, currency).
SSKE4 The
student will explain that people must make choices because they cannot have
everything they want.
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