KINDERGARTEN CURRICULUM
(Kdg - 5th Grade Curriculum pdf)

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
• Group duscussions
• Recognizes and writes sight words

Social Studies
History
• Sequencing/timelines
• Primary sources
• State and write days of the week, months of the year, and
seasons

Geography
• Maps and globes
• Directional/positional words
• Physical and human characteristics of immediate
environment
• State and write address and phone number

Civics
• Core democratic values of justice, common good and
diversity
• Patriotic symbols
• Following rules

Economics
• Wants/needs
• Goods/services
• Trade

Social Skills
• Responsibility for self
• Solving problems with friends

Science
• Beginning explorations
• Making and recording observations
• Using math
• Making measurements
• Using and making models
• Exploring time and sequence
• Discovering life

Math
• Reading numbers 100 +
• Counting by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, 10’s, to 100 +
• 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 and half hour
• Simple measuring tools
• Days of the week in order
• Shapes – squares, circles, rectangles, triangles and ovals
• Proximity: near, far, beside, inside, outside, etc.
• Directionality
• Estimation and Prediction
• Three dimensional shapes
• Adds and subtracts simple equations

IB Units
• Who we are: All about me
• Where we are in place & time: Maps & journeys
• How we express ourselves: Exploring language through rhyme, rhythm, & repetition
• How the world works: Force & motion
• How we organize ourselves: Neeed & wants & community
connections
• Sharing the planet: Plants & animals

Technology
• Computer vocabulary
• Identify and use basic components
• Identify and type letters, numbers and symbols
• Apply mouse/touch skills
• Use the network
• Resize and manipulate the application windows
• Demonstrate proper posture and hand placement
• Internet ethics