Kindergarten

Social and Emotional Development
The Student will:
  • Accept personal and group responsibilities
  • Participate in group activities
  • Play cooperatively with peers
  • Begin to show independence
Reading
The student will:
  • Recognize letter symbol and sounds
  • Recognize rhyming words
  • Retell a story through pictures, dictation or role playing
  • Respond to literature and join in familiar stories
  • Move left to right when reading or writing
Writing.
The student will:
  • Write first and last name with appropriate capital and lower case letters
  • Tell or write a story in sequence using pictures and/or letters
Computers
Computer software is used for readiness games and activities. 		Math
The Student will:
  • Count to 50
  • Recognize and write numbers to 20
  • Recognize shapes and colors
  • Describe, extend and create a wide variety of patterns
  • Sort and classify objects such as buttons and bottle caps
  • Develop an awareness of the concepts, words and symbols related to numbers as used in daily living
  • Explore through counting and collections of real objects such as numbers of mittens, cookies, or shoes
  • Participate in activities introducing weighing, measuring, time, and money
  • Use problem solving to investigate math
Social Studies
The student will:
  • Participate in activities to develop self-image
  • Draw a self-portrait
  • Learn about national heritage through celebration of past events and holidays
Penmanship
The student will:
  • Use a proper grip when using a variety of writing tools
  • Be introduces to proper formation of letters, starting at top and pulling down
Science
The student will explore beginning science concepts through exploration and discussion of the following curriculum areas:
  • Water play
  • The five senses
  • Classroom plants
  • Sunshine, shadow, and silhouettes
  • The seasons

Themes students will work on while acquiring math and reading skills may include:
  • Buses
  • Winter Fun
  • Transportation
  • Apples
  • Mice
  • Nutrition
  • Nursery Rhymes
  • Farm,Woodland and Zoo Animals
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