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Kindergarten
Reading
Early reading skills and strategies:
• Recognizes and produces rhyme
• Segments syllables and a word’s first and last sound
• Blends sounds
• Reads from left to right, top to bottom
• Identifies key parts of a book: front, back, print, illustrations
• Appropriately finger points simple books
• Recognizes and names letters, letter sounds
• Reads at least 20 high frequency words
• Sounds out basic phonetically regular words
• Uses pictures, syntax or repetitive language to predict text
• Uses context or questioning to learn unfamiliar words
• Foundations Phonics program
Reading Comprehension:
• Identifies and describes characters and main character
• Identifies story’s beginning, middle and end
• Identifies story problem and solution
• Understands and identifies the difference between Literary and informational books
• Retells stories or what is learned from informational text
• Reads, and rereads or listens to wide variety of texts, every day, for pleasure; self selects books
Writing
• Letter formation using Handwriting Without Tears program
• Write a word’s beginning and ending sound
• Write high frequency sight words
• Hold the pencil with a tri-pod grip
• Write words from left to right
• Spell phonetically
• Recreate a story line using pictures or words
Social Studies
• Awareness of family and community
• Awareness of categories of time (yesterday, long ago, i.e.)
• Sequence important events in their life
• Citizenship in various groups (family, class, community)
• Understanding of rules, rule setting, authority figures
• Communication skills
• Understanding of the interaction between people and their environment
• Understand basic human needs
Mathematics
• Count and order numbers to 50
• Recognize and form numerals to 50
• Demonstrate one-to-one correspondence, relationships between integers
• Solve problems using addition and subtraction (adds to, takes from)
• Recognize and name coins
• Recognize and name polygons
• Uses attributes (color) to sort and classify objects
• Identify standard tools to measure length, weight, temperature
• Understand relative time, identify clock and calendar as time measurement tools
• Understands positional relationships
• Recognize and create patterns
• Understand equality
• Read and create graphs - bar and picture
• Identify symmetry
• Collect data, make observations
• Solve word problems using manipulatives, pictures
Science Topics
• Understand process of questioning, predicting, observing, experimenting
• Recognize and record important features, represent and analyze data
• Understand properties of matter (solid, liquid)
• Understand and describe motion
• Magnetism
• Understand differences between living and non-living things
• Classification of living things
• Weather, seasons, water cycle
• Five senses
• Earth materials, rock cycle
Other Topics
• ELF (Environmental Living for the Future)
• Masters Art Program
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