Kindergarten
Welcome to Kindergarten!
CURRICULUM
This year's curriculum includes. . .
Reading
- Recognizing and naming 26 uppercase and 26 lowercase letters
- Knowing sounds for all 26 letters
- Producing rhyming words
- Segmenting and blending consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words
- Decoding and recognizing first 25 sight words
- Working on fluency and expression
- Checking for understanding of the story/text to build comprehension
- Reading a variety of text
- Expressing ideas with others
Writing
- Using pictures to tell stories
- Labeling pictures with salient sounds
- Stretching words to hear beginning, middle, and ending sounds
- Writing for a variety of purposes
- Applying knowledge of structures and conventions
- Writing and revising independently
- Forming letters to make writing readable (Handwriting Without Tears)
Word Work
- Recognizing syllables
- Isolating beginning sounds
- Segmenting and blending words
- Rhyming words
- Learning word families
- Working on basic conventions: capitalization and punctuation
Math
- Recognizing numerals 1-30
- Identifying arrays to 10
- Add and subtract within 10
- 2-D and 3-D shapes
- Understand the relationship of addition and subtraction
Social Studies
- Citizenship
- U.S. Symbols, icons, and traditions
- Geography
- Calendars
- Life long ago and today
- Community Helpers
Science
- Trees
- Wood and Paper
- Animals
Kindergarten Standards
