Kindergarten Curriculum

Language Arts

Reading

• Begin demonstrating the concepts of print.
• Activate prior knowledge to construct meaning from pictures and illustrations.
• Make predictions using context and picture clues.
• Show the sound and symbol relationship.
• Experience grade specific genre in a variety of settings.
• Participate in “independent reading” for five minutes daily.

Writing

• Write to communicate a message for a variety of purposes using the developmental stages of writing.
• Individually or collaboratively help to create language experiences and dictated stories.
• Demonstrate emergent writing behaviors.

Listening

• Demonstrate appropriate listening behaviors.
• Listen critically to a short story, which includes a clear sequence, of three events and retell that story.
• Determine patterns and rhymes in a meaningful context and apply them in oral, musical, pictorial, and/or written products.

Speaking

• Convey a spoken message using verbal and nonverbal communication in a one-to-one or group setting.

Research/Study Skills

• Become aware of appropriate resources that can be accessed for information.

Science

Seasons

• Children investigate and describe what weather is and how it changes.
• Describe appropriate activities for each season.

Plants

• Classify living and non-living things.
• Observe plant parts and why they are different and what function they perform.

Health

The kindergarten health education curriculum focuses on:

• Making friends and getting along with others.
• Ears and sound
• Eyes and sight
• Smelling, tasting and touching
• Poison prevention
• Staying safe when walking and riding
• Health helpers and health habits
• Dental heath
• Saying “No” to drugs and being careful with medicine

Social Studies

The purpose of the kindergarten social studies curriculum is to provide experiences to help children become caring and competent citizens. These experiences will help children develop an understanding of themselves and others as members of their school community. Children will begin to recognize that all people share universal characteristics and that physical and cultural differences occur among people and places.

Mathematics

Mathematical Thinking in Kindergarten

• Students recognize, describe, and extend patterns in number, data, and space. This initial unit is designed to assess student understanding of a wide range of mathematical concepts to create a base for effective instruction. Opportunities for students to engage in the use of models, numbers, and words to share their mathematical thinking allows for the introduction of a multitude of materials while also establishing classroom routines

Patterns, Trains and Hopscotch Paths

• Students investigate what makes a pattern and how patterns give us information in order to predict what will come next. They have many opportunities to copy, construct, and extent linear patterns. They also create rhythmic pattern routines using their bodies.

Collecting, Counting and Measuring

• Students explore numbers and number relationships through a variety of counting experiences. They count sets of classroom materials and play mathematical games. With repeated opportunities to count in real ways, students build their knowledge of the counting sequence and of the quantities those numbers represent. Students begin to explore ways to use pictures, numerals, objects, and words to represent quantities.

Counting Ourselves and Others

• Students use counting, sorting and classifying me collect, organize and represent information about themselves, their classmates and their environment. They solve mathematical problems based on their life experiences. Students engage in a variety of activities, which involve describing objects and classifying them according to common attributes.

Physical Education

Art

Music

Library