Kindergarten Curriculum
Below is the Core Curriculum for Kindergarten classes.
Language Arts
Listening and Speaking
- Following oral directions
- Developing auditory discrimination of sounds, words, patterns, and word families
- Isolating initial sounds in words
- Identifying main idea, sequence of events, simple cause and effect
- Improving skills in oral language through conversation, discussion, and creative dramatic
- Identifying words that rhyme
Reading and Literature
- Developing reading comprehension skills: predicting, retelling, recalling details
- Following directionality: left to right, top to bottom
- Identifying upper and lowercase letters in isolation and being able to say each letter sound
- Understanding beginning, middle, and end
- Sequencing chronologically
- Recognizing some high frequency words
Written Expression
- Writing own name in correct order and using capital letter only at the beginning
- Proceeding from left to right
- Forming upper and lowercase letters correctly
- Using invented spelling
- Recognizing period, question mark and exclamation point
Social Studies
- Understanding family needs and how the family meets its needs
- Understanding all children and adults have responsibilities
- Understanding community workers as people who provide us with goods and services
- Understanding maps as pictures of places and globes as representations of the earth
- Understanding rules involve consideration of others and provide for the health and safety of all
- Identifying North, South, East, and West
Science
- Understanding how animals move, eat, breathe, grow and protect themselves
- Understanding plants are living things
- Using the five senses
- Understanding sources of light and heat
- Observing changes in weather and the four seasons
Math
- Sorting and classifying by type, color, and shape
- Counting and identifying numerals 1-12
- Patterning
- Creating graphs
- Identifying and creating shapes (circle, square, rectangle, triangle, diamond)
- Understanding more, less, equal to, bigger than, greater than, smaller than, fewer than
Physical Education
- Understanding body movement: fast, slow, forward, backward, around, through, inside, and outside
- Understanding balancing on a board
- Understanding throwing and catching scarves and balls
- Understanding ball movement: rolling and bouncing
- Understanding locomotor movements: running, galloping
Library
- Listening to a story
- Developing awareness for the terms: title, author, and illustrator
- Knowing the basic nursery rhymes common to children of this age in the United States
- Recognizing the themes of fairy tales and to be able to retell the story in a skit or as a group
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