Kindergarten Curriculum

English-Language Arts

READING

Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development

Students:

• Know about letters, words, and sounds.
• Apply this knowledge to read simple sentences.

Reading Comprehension

Students:

• Identify the basic facts and ideas in what they have read, heard, or viewed.
• Use comprehension strategies (e.g., generating and responding to questions, comparing new information to what is already known).

Literary Response and Analysis

• Students listen and respond to stories based on well-known characters, themes, plots, and settings.

 

WRITING

• Students write words and brief sentences that are legible.

WRITTEN AND ORAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE CONVENTIONS

• Students write and speak with a command of standard English conventions.

LISTENING AND SPEAKING

Students:

• Listen and respond to oral communication.
• Speak in clear and coherent sentences.
• Deliver brief recitations and oral presentations about familiar experiences or interests.

 

Mathematics

By the end of kindergarten, students understand small numbers, quantities, and simple shapes in their everyday environment. They count, compare, describe and sort objects, and develop a sense of properties and patterns.

Number Sense

Students:

• Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities (i.e., that a set of objects has the same number of objects in different situations regardless of its position or arrangement).
• Understand and describe simple additions and subtractions.
• Use estimation strategies in computation and problem solving that involve numbers that use the ones and tens places.

Algebra and Functions

• Students sort and classify objects.

Measurement and Geometry

Students:

• Understand the concepts of time and units to measure it
• Understand that objects have properties such as length, weight, and capacity, and that comparisons may be made by referring to those properties.
• Identify common objects in their environment and describe the geometric features.

Statistics, Data Analysis, and Probability

• Students collect information about objects and events in their environment.

Mathematical Reasoning

Students:

• Make decisions about how to set up a problem.
• Solve problems in reasonable ways and justify their reasoning

History-Social Science

ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE

Students in kindergarten are introduced to basic spatial, temporal, and causal relationships, emphasizing the geographic and historical connections between the world today and the world long ago. The stories of ordinary and extraordinary people help describe the range and continuity of human experience and introduce the concepts of courage, self-control, justice, heroism, leadership, deliberation, and individual responsibility. Historical empathy for how people lived and worked long ago reinforces the concept of civic behavior: how we interact respectfully with each other, following rules, and respecting the rights of others.

Students:

• Understand that being a good citizen involves acting in certain ways.
• Recognizing national and state symbols and icons such as the national and state flags, the bald eagle, and the Statue of Liberty.
• Match simple descriptions of work that people do and the names of related jobs at the school, in the local community, and from historical accounts.
• Compare and contrast the locations of people, places, and environments, and describe their characteristics.
• Put events in temporal order using a calendar, placing days, weeks, and months in proper order.
• Understand that history relates to events, people and places of other times.

 

Science

PHYSICAL SCIENCES

• Students understand that properties of materials can be observed, measured, and predicted.

LIFE SCIENCES

• Students understand that different types of plants and animals inhabit the earth.

EARTH SCIENCES

• Students understand that earth is composed of land, air, and water.

INVESTIGATION AND EXPERIMENTATION

• Students understand that scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations.

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