Kindergarten Curriculum Outline
By the end of the school year the students will be able to…
Language Arts
- Read their names and locate in text.
- Build and write their names.
- Say the names of letters in their names.
- Notice and talk about similarities and differences among letters.
- Perform basic classroom routines.
- Join in on poems, songs, rhymes, and chants.
- Hear, identify and generate rhyming words.
- Match rhyming pictures.
- Match pictures of words that begin the same.
- Say words to hear and clap syllables in a word.
- Say words slowly to hear one sound.
- Hear words in a sentence.
- Hear and identify beginning sounds in words.
- Match more pictures of words with the same sound at the beginning.
- Match letters by looking at their features.
- Say words slowly to hear more than one word.
- Say most letter names.
- Construct words in writing using known letter/sound relationships.
- Recognize and match color words.
- Identify first and last in a sentence and first and last letters in a word.
- Hear and identify the last sound of words.
- Make connection between names by letters, sounds, and letter patterns.
- Write their names accurately and legibly.
- Write some known high frequency words.
- Answer questions after listening to a story.
- Hold books correctly.
- Understand that you read words from left to right.
- Build words using the phonograms -at, -an, -ay, -and, -ake, and -ike
- Put letters in alphabetical order.
- Add s to the end of words.
- Attempt to spell new words.
- Make new words by changing the first and last letter.
- Reading simple text.
Math
- Sort objects by likeness.
- Identify what makes an object different.
- Sort objects based on color, shape, and size.
- Solve problems by using logical reasoning.
- Identify various three-dimensional (solid) figures.
- Identify various two dimensional (plane) figures.
- Identify and make patterns.
- Solve problems by finding a pattern.
- Identify positions such as above, below, top, middle, bottom, on over, under, inside, outside, in front, behind, left, right, between, before, and after.
- Solve problems by following directions and acting out a problem.
- Identify and make groups with as many as, more, or fewer objects.
- Identify, show, and draw groups through 10 objects.
- Use ordinal numbers first through tenth to identify position.
- Solve problems by using a map.
- Identify, show, and draw groups of 11 to 31.
- Compare and order numbers up to 31.
- Estimate groups using benchmarks of 10, 20, and 30.
- Solve problems by using the Guess and Test strategy.
- Survey and record data, complete and interpret picture graphs, pictographs, and bar graphs.
- Explore fraction concepts, including one half and one fourth.
- Explore events more likely, equally likely, or less likely to occur.
- Solve problems by making a list.
- Add numbers with sums of less than 10.
- Add numbers in vertical form.
- Complete addition sentences for sums of 10 or less.
- Solve problems by writing a number sentence.
- Subtract from 10 or less.
- Complete subtraction sentences from 10 or less.
- Subtract from 10 or less in vertical form.
- Solve problems by choosing operation.
- Recognize the value of a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter.
- Count by 1s to find the value of a group of coins.
- Trade and compare money amounts.
- Add and subtract money amounts.
- Solve problems by using a model, table, or graph.
- Sequence events.
- Read a calendar.
- Tell and write time to the hour.
- Compare the length, height, weight, and capacity of objects.
- Use nonstandard units of length and measure.
- Identify and count numbers to 100.
- Count by 2s, 5s, and 10s.
- Explore tens and ones.
Science
- Life Requirements- Organisms have basic needs. Animals and plants need air, water, and food. Plants also require light. Plants and animals use food as a source of energy and as a source of building material for growth and repair.
- Identify that living things have basic needs.
- Identify and compare living and nonliving things.
- Share ideas about science through purposeful conversation.
- Communicate and present findings of observations.
- Develop strategies for information gathering (ask an expert, use a book, make observations, and conduct simple investigations.
- Make purposeful observation of the natural world using the appropriate senses.
- Generate questions based on observations.
- Manipulate simple tools (for example: hand lens, pencils, balances, non-standard objects for measurement) that aid observation and data collection.
- Construct simple charts from data and observations.
Units to be conducted to achieve these goals include: Study of Apples and pumpkins, The Five Senses, Animals, Plants, Space, and Living/Non-Living things.
Social Studies
- Recognize that maps and globes represent places.
- Use environmental directions or positional words (up/down, in/out, above/below) to identify significant locations in the classroom.
- Identify and describe places in the immediate environment (e.g., classroom, home, playground).
- Understand the difference between needs vs. wants.
- Be familiar with the different types of jobs that people have.
- Describe ways people use the environment to meet human needs and wants (e.g., food, shelter, clothing).
- Describe situations in which they demonstrated self-discipline and individual responsibility (e.g., caring for a pet, completing chores, following school rules, working in a group, taking turns).
- Understand the concept of a rule/law.
Religion
- Understand that there is one God and that there are three Persons in the on God:Trinity.
- Understand that God made the world and everything in it.
- Learn why we are special to God.
- Learn ways to show our love to God (i.e. following his commandments).
- Understand that God loves everyone and we are to love everyone as well.
- The church is God’s house on earth.
- Understand what sin is and that we hurt ourselves, others, and God when we choose to sin.
- All baptized people are members of God’s family.
- We receive grace when we are baptized, which is God’s life in us.
- We need to ask God and the person that we have hurt or disobeyed to forgive us when we sin.
- We should forgive others as God forgives us.
- Learn what is prayer and how we can do it.
- Jesus is God the Son.
- We celebrate Jesus’ birthday on Christmas.
- Mary is the Mother of God.
- Joseph was Jesus’ father on earth.
- God brings us new life.
- Jesus died for our sins, and we celebrate his Resurrection at Easter.
Handwriting
- Write letters with the correct spacing.
- Begin to form letters correctly.
- Trace on a line accurately.
- Left to right, top to bottom awareness.
- Hold pencil correctly
Motor Skills
- Cut on a line.
- Complete puzzles.
- Color inside the lines.
