Kindergarten
Language Standards
CONCEPTS OF
PRINT
ELAKR1 The
student demonstrates knowledge of concepts of print. The student
a.
Recognizes that print and pictures (signs and labels, newspapers, and
informational
books) can
inform, entertain, and persuade.
b.
Demonstrates that print has meaning and represents spoken language in written
form.
c. Tracks text
read from left to right and top to bottom.
d.
Distinguishes among written letters, words, and sentences.
e. Recognizes
that sentences in print are made up of separate words.
f. Begins to
understand that punctuation and capitalization are used in all written
sentences.
PHONOLOGICAL
AWARENESS
ELAKR2 The
student demonstrates the ability to identify and orally manipulate
words and
individual sounds within those spoken words. The student
a. Identifies
and produces rhyming words in response to an oral prompt and distinguishes
rhyming and non-rhyming words.
b. Identifies
component sounds (phonemes and combinations of phonemes) inspoken words.
c. Blends and
segments syllables in spoken words.
d. Segments
the phonemes in high frequency words.
e. Blends
spoken phonemes to make high frequency words.
PHONICS
ELAKR3 The
student demonstrates the relationship between letters and lettercombinations
of written words and the sounds of spoken words. The student
a.
Demonstrates an understanding that there are systematic and predictable
relationships between print and spoken sounds.
b. Recognizes
and names all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
c. Matches all
consonant and short-vowel sounds to appropriate letters.
d. Blends
individual sounds to read one-syllable decodable words.
e. Applies
learned phonics skills when reading words and sentences in stories.
FLUENCY
ELAKR4 The
student demonstrates the ability to read orally with speed, accuracy,and
expression. The student
a.
Reads previously taught high frequency words at the rate of 30 words correct
per minute.
b. Reads
previously taught grade-level text with appropriate expression.
VOCABULARY
ELAKR5 The
student acquires and uses grade-level words to communicate effectively.The
student
a.
Listens to a variety of texts and uses new vocabulary in oral language.
b. Discusses
the meaning of words and understands that some words have multiple
meanings.
COMPREHENSION
ELAKR6 The
student gains meaning from orally presented text. The student
a. Listens to
and reads a variety of literary (e.g., short stories, poems) and
informationaltexts and materials to gain knowledge and for pleasure.
b. Makes
predictions from pictures and titles.
c. Asks and
answers questions about essential narrative elements
(e.g.,
beginning-middle-end, setting, characters, problems, events, resolution)of a
read-aloud text.
d. Begins to
distinguish fact from fiction in a read-aloud text.
e. Retells
familiar events and stories to include beginning, middle, and end.
f. Uses prior
knowledge, graphic features (illustrations), and graphic organizersto
understand text.
g. Connects
life experiences to read-aloud text.
h. Retells
important facts in the student’s own words.
Writing
The student
begins to write text that develops a central idea or tells a story. The
writing begins to show consideration of the audience and purpose. The
student’s writing begins to reflect the conventions of written English.
ELAKW1 The
student begins to understand the principles of writing. The student
a.
Writes or dictates to describe familiar persons, places, objects, or
experiences.
b. Uses
drawings, letters, and phonetically spelled words to create meaning.
c. Accurately
prints name, all uppercase and lowercase letters of the
alphabet, and
teacher-selected words.
d. Uses
left-to-right pattern of writing.
e. Begins to
use capitalization at the beginning of sentences and
punctuation
(periods and question marks) at the end of sentences.
ELAKLSV1 The
student uses oral and visual skills to communicate. The student
a. Listens and
speaks appropriately with peers and adults.
b. Follows
two-part oral directions.
c. Repeats
auditory sequences (letters, words, numbers, and rhythmic patterns).
d. Recites
short poems, rhymes, songs, and stories with repeated patterns.
e. Describes
people, places, things, locations, and actions.
f. Increases
vocabulary to reflect a growing range of interests and knowledge.
g.
Communicates effectively when relating experiences and retelling stories heard.
h. Uses
complete sentences when speaking.
i. Begins to
use subject-verb agreement and tense correctly.
Kindergarten
Math Standards
MKN1 Students
will connect numerals to the quantities they represent.
a. Count a
number of objects up to 30.
b. Produce
models for number words through ten.
c. Write
numerals through 20 to label sets.
d. Sequence
and identify using ordinal numbers (1st-10th).
e. Compare two
or more sets of objects (1-10) and identify which set is equal to, more than,
or less than the other.
f. Estimate
quantities using five and ten as benchmarks. (e.g., 9 is one five and four
more. It is closer to two fives or one 10 than it is to one five.).
g. Use
informal strategies to share objects equally (divide) between two to three
people or sets.
h. Identify
coins by name and value (penny, nickel, dime, and quarter).
i. Count out
pennies to buy items that together cost less than 30 cents.
j. Make fair
trades involving combinations of pennies and nickels or pennies and dimes.
MKN2 Students
will use representations to model addition and subtraction.
a. Use
counting strategies to find out how many items are in two sets when theyare
combined.
b. Build
number combinations up to 10 (e.g., 4 and 1, 2 and 3, 3 and 2, 4 and 1
for five) and
for doubles to 10 (3 and 3 for six).
c. Use
objects, pictures, numbers, or words to create, solve, and explain
storyproblems for two numbers that are each less than 10.
Measurement
Students will
explore quantitative situations involving distance, length, capacity,
weight, time,
and temperature.
MKM1 Students
will group objects according to common properties such as color,
shape,
texture, or number.
a. Compare and
order objects on the basis of length.
b. Compare and
order objects on the basis of capacity.
c. Compare and
order objects on the basis of height.
d. Compare and
order objects on the basis of weight.
MKM2 Students
will understand the measurement of calendar time.
a. Know the
names of the days of the week.
b. Know the
months of the year.
c. Know the
four seasons.
MKM3 Students
will tell time as it relates to a daily schedule.
a. Order daily
events.
b. Tell the
time when daily events occur, such as lunch, to the nearest hour.
c. Know the
name of the day of the week when weekly events occur in class.
Geometry
Students will
recognize and name basic geometric shapes and spatial relationships.
MKG1 Students
will correctly name simple two and three-dimensional figures, and
recognize
them in the environment.
a. Recognize
and name the following basic two-dimensional shapes: triangles, rectangles,
squares, and circles.
b. Recognize
and name the following three-dimensional shapes: spheres (balls ) and cubes.
c. Observe
concrete objects in the environment and represent the objects using basic
shapes, such as drawing a representation of a house using a square together
with a triangle for the roof.
d. Combine
basic shapes into basic and more complicated shapes, and decompose basic
shapes into combinations of basic shapes.
e. Compare
geometric shapes and identify similarities and differences of the following
two and
three-dimensional shapes: triangles, rectangles, squares, circles,
spheres, and
cubes.
MKG2 Students
will understand basic positional relationships.
a. Identify
when an object is beside another object, above another object, or below
another object.
b. Identify
when an object is in front of another object, behind another object, inside
another object, or outside it.
MKG3 Students
will identify, create, extend, and transfer patterns from one representation
to another
using actions, objects, and geometric shapes.
a. Identify a
missing shape within a given pattern of geometric shapes.
b. Extend a
given pattern, and recognize similarities in different patterns.
MKD1 Students
will pose questions, collect data, organize, and record results using
objects,
pictures, and picture graphs.
MKP1 Students
will solve problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts.
a.
Solve non-routine word problems using the strategy act out the problem oruse
objects.
b. With the
use of manipulatives, solve routine word problems related to all
appropriate
kindergarten math standards.
MKP2 Students
will investigate, develop, and evaluate mathematical arguments.
MKP3 Students
will use the language of mathematics to express ideas precisely.
MKP4 Students
will understand how mathematical ideas interconnect and build on one another
and will apply mathematics in other content areas.
MKP5 Students
will create and use pictures, manipulatives, models, and symbols to organize,
record, and communicate mathematical ideas.
numbers
through 30
set
longer
shorter
heavier
lighter
morning
afternoon
evening
yesterday
today
tomorrow
days of the
week
months of the
year
seasons
triangle
rectangle
square
circle
sphere
cube
beside
above
below
in front of
behind
inside
outside
more
less
equal
Kindergarten
Science Standards
SKCS1. Students will be aware of the importance of curiosity, honesty,
openness, and
skepticism in science and will exhibit these traits in their own efforts to
understand how the world works.
a. Raise questions about the world around you and be willing to seek answers
to some of the questions by making careful observations (5 senses) and trying
things out.
SKCS2. Students will have the computation and estimation skills necessary
for analyzing data
and following scientific explanations.
a. Use whole numbers for counting, identifying, and describing things and
experiences.
b. Make quantitative estimates of nonstandard measurements (blocks, counters)
and check by measuring.
SKCS3. Students will use tools and instruments for observing, measuring,
and
manipulating objects in scientific activities.
a. Use ordinary hand tools and instruments to construct, measure (for example:
balance scales to determine heavy/light, weather data, nonstandard units for
length), and look at objects (for example: magnifiers to look at rocks and
soils).
b. Make something that can actually be used to perform a task, using paper,
cardboard, wood, plastic, metal, or existing objects. (For example: paper
plate day and night sky models)
SKCS4. Students will use the ideas of system, model, change, and scale in
exploring
scientific and technological matters.
a. Use a model—such as a toy or a picture—to describe a feature of the primary
thing.
b. Describe changes in size, weight, color, or movement, and note which of
their other qualities remains the same. (For example, playing “Follow the
Leader” and noting the changes.)
c. Compare very different sizes (large/small), ages (parent/baby), speeds
(fast/slow), and weights (heavy/light) of both manmade and natural things.
SKCS5. Students will communicate scientific ideas and activities clearly.
a. Describe and compare things in terms of number, shape, texture, size,
weight, color, and motion.
b. Begin to draw pictures that portray features of the thing being described.
Nature of Science
SKCS6. Students will understand the important features of the process of
scientific inquiry.
Students will apply the following to inquiry learning practices:
a. In doing science, it is often helpful to work with a team and to share
findings with others.
b. Tools such as rulers, magnifiers, and balance scales often give more
information about things than can be obtained by just observing things without
help.
c. Much can be learned about plants and animals by observing them closely, but
care must be taken to know the needs of living things and how to provide for
them (classroom pets).
Earth Science
SKE1. Students will describe time patterns (such as day to night and night
to day) and objects (such as sun, moon, stars) in the day and night sky.
a. Describe changes that occur in the sky during the day, as day turns into
night, during the night, and as night turns into day.
b. Classify objects according to those seen in the day sky and those seen in
the night sky.
c. Recognize that the Sun supplies heat and light to Earth.
SKE2. Students will describe the physical attributes of rocks and soils.
a. Use senses to observe and group rocks by physical attributes such as
large/small, heavy/light, smooth/rough, dark/light, etc.
b. Use senses to observe soils by physical attributes such as smell, texture,
color, particle/grain size.
c. Recognize earth materials— soil, rocks, water, air, etc.
Physical Science
SKP1. Students will describe objects in terms of the materials they are
made of and their physical properties.
a. Compare and sort materials of different composition (common materials
include clay, cloth, paper, plastic, etc.).
b. Use senses to classify common materials, such as buttons or swatches of
cloth, according to their physical attributes (color, size, shape, weight,
texture, buoyancy, flexibility).
SKP2. Students will investigate different types of motion.
a. Sort objects into categories according to their motion. (straight, zigzag,
round and round, back and forth, fast and slow, and motionless)
b. Push, pull, and roll common objects and describe their motions.
SKP3. Students will observe and communicate effects of gravity on objects.
a. Recognize that some things, such as airplanes and birds, are in the sky,
but return to earth.
b. Recognize that the sun, moon, and stars are in the sky, but don’t come down.
c. Explain why a book does not fall down if it is placed on a table, but will
fall down if it is dropped.
Life Science
SKL1. Students will sort living organisms and non-living materials into
groups by observable physical attributes.
a. Recognize the difference between living organisms and nonliving materials.
b. Group animals according to their observable features such as appearance,
size, motion, where it lives, etc. (Example: A green frog has four legs and
hops. A rabbit also hops.)
c. Group plants according to their observable features such as appearance,
size, etc.
SKL2. Students will compare the similarities and differences in groups of
organisms.
a. Explain the similarities and differences in animals. (color, size,
appearance, etc.)
b. Explain the similarities and differences in plants. (color, size,
appearance, etc.)
c. Recognize the similarities and differences between a parent and a baby.
d. Match pictures of animal parents and their offspring explaining your
reasoning. (Example: dog/puppy; cat/kitten; cow/calf; duck/ducklings, etc.)
e. Recognize that you are similar and different from other students. (senses,
appearance)
Kindergarten
Social Studies Standards
SSKH1 The student will identify the purpose of national holidays and
describe the
people or events celebrated.
a. Labor Day
b. Columbus Day (Christopher Columbus)
c. Veterans Day
d. Thanksgiving Day
e. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
f. Presidents Day (George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and the current
President)
g. Memorial Day
h. Flag Day
i. Independence Day
SSKH2 The student will identify important American symbols and explain
their
meaning.
a. The national and state flags (United
States and Georgia
flags)
b. The bald eagle
c. The Statue of Liberty
d. Lincoln Memorial
e. WashingtonMonument
f. White House
g. Pledge of Allegiance
h. Star Spangled Banner
SSKH3 The student will correctly use words and phrases related to
chronology and time to explain how things change.
a. Now, long ago
b. Before, after
c. Morning, afternoon, night
d. Today, tomorrow, yesterday
e. First, last, next
f. Day, week, month, year
g. Past, present, future
Geographic Understandings
SSKG1 The student will describe American culture by explaining diverse
community and family celebrations and customs.
SSKG2 The student will explain that a map is a drawing of a place and a
globe is a model of the Earth.
a. Differentiate land and water features on simple maps and globes.
b. Explain that maps and globes show a view from above.
c. Explain that maps and globes show features in a smaller size.
SSKG3 The student will state the street address, city, county, state,
nation, and
continent in which he or she lives.
Government/Civic Understandings
SSKCG1 The student will demonstrate an understanding of good citizenship.
a. Explain how rules are made and why.
b. Explain why rules should be followed.
SSKCG2 The student will retell stories that illustrate positive character
traits and
will explain how the people in the stories show the qualities of honesty,
patriotism,
loyalty, courtesy, respect, truth, pride, self-control, moderation, and
accomplishment.
Economic Understandings
SSKE1 The student will describe the work that people do (police officer,
fire fighter, soldier, mail carrier, baker, farmer, doctor, and teacher).
SSKE2 The student will explain that people earn income by exchanging their
human resources (physical or mental work) for wages or salaries.
SSKE3 The student will explain how money is used to purchase goods and
services.
a. Distinguish goods from services.
b. Identify various forms of U.S.
money (coins, currency).
SSKE4 The student will explain that people must make choices because they
cannot have everything they want.