KINDERGARTEN CURRICULUM

Language Arts

• Letter recognition, initial consonants, phonemic awareness, letter/sound relationships, parts of a book, sight words
• Comprehension strategies: predicting, real vs. make-believe, retelling
• Story elements: beginning, middle, ending, characters, setting, events
• Types of literature: picture books, fantasy, fairy tale, poetry, rhymes, songs, finger plays, choral reading, dramatic play
• Uses oral language appropriate to situation
• Prewriting and drafting strategies: topic generation
• Journal writing, attempts sentence structure
• Legible manuscript penmanship
• Follows two-step and generates three-step directions
• Takes turns, raises hand, focuses on speaker, avoids interrupting during listening time
• Expressing ideas orally: clarity, volume, complete sentences
• Types of speaking opportunities: poems, show and tell, sharing
  

Social Studies

Time Travelers - Pre-history - O C.E.

• Pre-history – 0: Dino, Etc.
• Dinosaurs
• Early Man
• Ancient China/Egypt
• Mesopotamia
• Intro to maps and globes
  

Social skills

• Appreciating diversity
• Responsibility for self
• Solving problems with friends
• Following rules

Science

Life Science:

• Characteristics of Living Things
• Animals two by Two
• The Senses
• Michigan Model
• Safety

Physical Science

• Properties of Matter
• Liquids and Solids
• Fabrics

Earth Science

• Rocks and Soil
• Weather

Math

• Reading numbers 100 +
• Counting by 1’s, 5’s, 10’s, to 100 +
• Counting backward from 20
• Writing numerals to 100
• Reading and writing tally marks
• Ordinal positions
• Patterns, classifying
• Simple number sentences using pictures
• Comparison vocabulary: bigger/smaller, less than/more than, longer/shorter, etc.
• Joining and separating sets using manipulatives
• Identifying coins
• Telling time to the hour
• Balance scales
• Simple measuring tools
• Days of the week in order
• Squares, circles, rectangles, triangles, ovals
• Proximity: near, far, beside, inside, outside, etc.
• Directionality
• Estimation and prediction
• Shapes/two-three dimension
• Adds and subtracts simple equations