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Kindergarten Curriculum Guide

Reading

Listening and Speaking Skills:

  • Classroom discussions

  • Presentation of ideas and information

  • Comprehension and discussion of Read- Alouds

  • Grasping specific details and key ideas

  • Integrating information and evaluating evidence

  • Fiction, drama, poetry, and fables

  • Nonfiction and information texts


Literary Terms:

  • Author and Illustrator


Reading Skills:

  • Print awareness


Phonological and Phonemic Awareness:

  • Phonics; decoding and encoding

  • Consonant sounds and spellings

  • Vowel sounds and spellings

  • Oral reading and fluency

  • Reading comprehension

  • Main idea

  • Predictions

  • Point of view

  • Text to self-connections

  • Sequencing


Writing:

Write to reflect audience, purpose, and task:

  • Draw pictures to represent a text

  • Draw pictures to represent an opinion

  • With assistance add details to writing

  • Create title or caption to accompany a picture


Language Conventions:

  • Form letters, words, phrases, and sentences

  • Apply basic spelling conventions

  • Use basic capitalization and punctuation in sentences


Handwriting and Spelling:

  • Hold a pencil correctly with a pincher grasp

  • Trace and print the 26 letters

  • Understanding basic word families and blends


Parts of speech and Sentence Structure


Capitalization and punctuation

Mathematics

Patterns and Classifications:

  • Establish concepts of likeness and differences

  • Classify various attributes

  • Recognize patterns and predicting extensions

  • Extend sequence of ordered concrete objects


Numbers and Number Sense:

  • Using concrete objects and pictures to compare sets:

  • Same as (equal to)

  • More than

  • Less than

  • Most

  • Least

  • Add and Subtract


Counting:

  • Skip counting by twos, fives, and tens

  • Count to 100

  • Write numbers 1-31

  • Identify ordinal position

  • Identify odd/even


Money:

  • Identify penny, nickel, dime, quarter, and one dollar bill

  • Identify dollar sign and cent sign

  • Write money using cent sign


Measurement:

  • Identify instruments of measure: ruler, scale, and thermometer

  • Compare objects: linear measure, weight, capacity, temperature


Time:

  • Days of the week and months of the year

  • Telling time to the hour and half hour

  • Sequence of events: before, after, first, next, and last

  • Orientation in time: today, yesterday, tomorrow morning, tomorrow afternoon, this morning, yesterday morning, and etc.…


Geometry:

  • Identify right and left hand

  • Identify top, bottom, middle

  • Terms of orientation and relative position

  • Identify and sort plane figures

  • Make congruent shapes and designs

  • Identify 2D and 3D shapes

Social Studies

Basic Geography:

  • Identify oceans

  • Identify seven continents


Native American Tribes:

  • Wampanoag

  • Navajo

  • Comanche/ Cherokee


Early Exploration and Settlement:

  • Columbus

  • The Pilgrims

  • Independence Day


Well Known Presidents:

  • Washington

  • Jefferson

  • Lincoln

  • Theodore Roosevelt


Symbols and Figures:

  • Martin Luther King Jr.

  • The American Flag

  • The Statue of Liberty

  • Mount Rushmore

  • The White House

  • Bald Eagle

Science

Animal Life:

  • Characteristics

  • Habitats


Plant Life:

  • Characteristics

  • Habitats

  • Growth and life cycles


Weather:

  • Seasons

  • Daily forecast

  • Conditions

  • The sun


Magnetism:

  • Identify use of

  • Classify attraction

Theology

Attributes of God:

  • The Holy Trinity

  • The Life of Jesus

  • The Holy Spirit


Mary:

  • Mother of God

  • Our Mother

  • Our Lady of Guadalupe

  • Introduction to the Rosary and Mysteries


Bible:

  • Creation

  • Identifying miracles

  • Stories of the Bible

  • Holy Days of Obligation

  • Saints


Prayers:

  • Our Father

  • Hail Mary

  • Grace Before Meals (Bless Us O Lord)

  • The Memorare

  • St. Michael

Enrichment

Spanish:

  • Colors

  • Animals

  • Calendar

  • Numbers 1 to 20

  • Greetings

  • Prayers


Music:

Basic Elements of Music:

  • Rhythm

  • Melody

  • Pitch

  • Instrument families


Listening and Movement:

  • Respond to music with movement

  • Perform rhythm patterns

  • Demonstrate steady beats


Physical Education:

  • Gross motor skills/balance

  • Coordination

  • Group games

  • Sportsmanship


Visual Arts:

  • Explore line and color

  • Drawing

  • Painting

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