Kindergarten Curriculum Overview:
What should I expect my child to learn this year... Reading
Read, write, compose, and decompose numbers at least to 30
Measuring and Counting 1
Count a set of objects
Decided which of two objects is longer
Compare quantities to see which is larger.
Patterns
Create and extend patterns
Identifies pattern unit and names unit
Measuring and Counting 2
Measure length of objects using cubes
Accurately count a set up to 15
Determine what is one more or one fewer than an object
2D and 3D Geometry
Identify 2D and three 3D shapes and attributes
Fill 2D shape with pattern blocks
Addition, Subtraction, Number System
Write numbers at least to 10
Count a set of objects at least to 20
Combine two small quantities
Data Analysis
Represent data
Use data to solve a problem
Science
Animals:
What should I expect my child to learn this year... Reading
- Identify letters and sounds (long and short vowels)
- Segments sounds
- Decodes words to read grade level words accurately and quickly.
- Develop book and print awareness
- Develop phonemic awareness
- Demonstrate sense of story (e.g., beginning, middle, end, characters, details and setting).
- Use preparation strategies to activate prior knowledge and experience before and during the reading of a text.
- Predict possible events
- Understand literary language
- Distinguish fantasy from reality
- Sequence Stories
- Writes several sentences on a topic.
- Uses spacing accurately.
- Uses capital letters and periods consistently and accurately.
- Draws picture that is related to text and is labeled.
- Writes sight words correctly
- Uses phonetic sounds to write words.
Read, write, compose, and decompose numbers at least to 30
Measuring and Counting 1
Count a set of objects
Decided which of two objects is longer
Compare quantities to see which is larger.
Patterns
Create and extend patterns
Identifies pattern unit and names unit
Measuring and Counting 2
Measure length of objects using cubes
Accurately count a set up to 15
Determine what is one more or one fewer than an object
2D and 3D Geometry
Identify 2D and three 3D shapes and attributes
Fill 2D shape with pattern blocks
Addition, Subtraction, Number System
Write numbers at least to 10
Count a set of objects at least to 20
Combine two small quantities
Data Analysis
Represent data
Use data to solve a problem
Science
Animals:
- Observe and describe the similarities and differences among animals
- Observe how animals interact with their surroundings.
- Observe the behaviors of several common animals.
- Demonstrate how to care for a variety of animals.
- Observe the similarities of humans to other animals
- Observe and report daily weather changes throughout the year.
- Identify different weather features
- Identify types of precipitation, changes in wind, force, direction and sky conditions.
- Observe and determine the effects of weather on human activities.
- Use common tools to measure weather.
- Observe and describe the properties of different kinds of objects and how they are used.
- Develop and use a vocabulary associated with the properties of materials.
- Describe how objects look feel, smell, taste, and sound using their own senses.
- Observe that objects can be described and sorted by their properties.
- Identify some common objects and organisms that are considered to be natural resources in our world.