Kindergarten Curriculum
Kindergarten Language Arts
During the kindergarten
year, students need to experience the
enjoyment of reading while they learn the
foundational strategies and skills that will
enable them to read independently. Students
learn these enabling skills of phonemic
awareness, letter names, sound-letter
correspondences, decoding skills, high
frequency vocabulary, and comprehension
skills as they listen and respond to a
variety of texts. They enjoy listening to
stories, relating characters and events to
their own life experiences, dramatizing
stories, and responding to stories through
art and writing activities. They can extend
their oral language skills when given
opportunities to express themselves, and
they can learn how oral language is recorded
to convey experiences and ideas as they
observe their experiences and ideas being
written. Kindergarten students will:
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Engage in word play.
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Listen and respond to children's
literature.
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Build reading and writing concepts,
skills, and strategies.
The
learner will develop and apply enabling
strategies and skills to read and write.
The learner will develop and apply
strategies and skills to comprehend text that is
read, heard, and viewed.
The learner will make connections through
the use of oral language, written language, and
media and technology.
The learner will apply strategies and
skills to create oral, written, and visual
texts.
The learner will apply
grammar and language conventions to communicate
effectively.
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Kindergarten Mathematics
Major Concepts
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Read, write, and count using whole
numbers
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Recognize circles, squares, triangles,
and rectangles
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Identify and describe patterns
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Collect data and create graphs
The learner will recognize,
model, and write numbers through 10.
The learner will explore
concepts of geometry and non-standard
measurement.
The learner will model simple
patterns and sorting activities.
The learner will gather and
organize data in a group setting.
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Kindergarten
Science
The focus for kindergarten will
center on students using all the five senses to
make observations of events in both indoor and
outdoor settings that make up their world. The
strands provide a context for teaching the
content throughout all goals. Students will be
actively involved in:
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Exploring a variety of materials.
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Utilizing observed data to make
predictions.
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Generating attributes and uses of common
objects and organisms.
The learner will build an understanding of
similarities and differences in plants and
animals.
The learner will build an understanding of
weather concepts.
The learner will build an understanding of
the properties/movement of common objects and
organisms.
The learner will increase his/her
understanding of how the world works by using
tools.
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Kindergarten:
Self and Family/Families Around the World
Students begin a global approach
to social studies with a study of themselves,
their families, and other families around the
world. They learn how individuals and families
grow and change and compare how they are alike
and different. Students approach the
understanding of self and family while
developing and defining concepts about
themselves and the family structure. They
acquire the concept that all families worldwide
have basic common needs, yet meet these needs in
a variety of ways. Goals in kindergarten focus
on developing positive attitudes about
themselves, their families, and families of
diverse cultures.
The learner will investigate
how individuals, families, and groups are
similar and different.
The learner will identify and exhibit
qualities of responsible citizenship in the
classroom, school, and other social
environments.
The learner will recognize and understand
the concept of change in various settings.
The learner will explain celebrated
holidays and special days in communities.
The learner will express basic geographic
concepts in real life situations.
The learner will apply basic economic
concepts to home, school, and the community.
The learner will recognize how technology
is used at home, school, and the community.
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