Kindergarten Curriculum
Language Arts (Harcourt Reading
Series):
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Kid Writing - sounding out words, spaces
between words, capital letter at the beginning of a sentence, period at the
end of a sentence, writing 2-3 complete sentences, using resources to spell
some words correctly, drawing pictures that match the story.
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Interactive Writing - involves the teacher
and children working together and "sharing the pen" to jointly compose text.
The focus of Interactive Writing is on concepts and conventions of print, the
sounds in words and how the sounds connect with letters. Children actively
plan and construct the text. For the most part, children also control the
writing of the text. The teacher guides this process and provides appropriate
pacing, assistance and instruction when needed.
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Handwriting (Zaner-Bloser style)
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Making class books - writing stories
together and adding each child's page of the story to a class book, which is
added to our classroom library.
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Shared Reading and Read Alouds - teacher
reads stories aloud to children for enjoyment, comprehension, storytelling
activities, and concepts of print. Children and teacher read Big Books
together with large print and familiar vocabulary.
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Guided Reading Groups (second half of
school year) - matching voice to print, reading sight words, using picture
clues to read unknown words, using letter sound knowledge to decode unknown
words, answering comprehension questions based on what was read. Children are
grouped with 3 or 4 other children of similar reading abilities.
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Word Families - at, cat, bat, hat, sat,
etc. or -ug, jug, bug, rug, hug, etc).
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Phonemic Awareness - rhyming, beginning and
ending sounds, identifying same beginning/ending sounds, identifying and
clapping out the number of beats (syllables) a word has, segmenting words into
separate sounds, blending sounds to make a word.
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Literacy Work Stations (no longer known as
"centers") - children work at stations independently during small group
instruction time. Classroom stations include Listening, Math, Reading,
Writing, Pocket Chart, ABC, Overhead, Puppets and Storytelling, Games &
Puzzles, Handwriting, Creation Station, Word Wall, and Buddy Reading.
Science:
Plants
-Parts
of Plants, What Plants Need and How They Grow, Leaves and Flowers and How We
Use Plants
Animals
-Animals
are Everywhere, Animal Needs, How Animals Grow and Change
Our Earth
-Soil
and Rocks, Land and Water, Resources and Recycling
Sky and Weather
-Look
at Weather, Seasons, Sun, Moon, & Stars
Matter
-Paper
and Cloth, Wood, Metal, & Clay, Investigate Water
Motion
-Wheels
and Motion, Gravity and Sounds, Magnets
Math (Saxon Math Program):
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Writing/Identifying numbers 0-10
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Counting objects through 10
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Recognition of circle, square, triangle,
rectangle
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Identifying most and fewest on a picture
graph
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Sorting objects by shape, color, and size
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Acting out story problems
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Counting to 100
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Identifying missing numbers
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Ordering numbers
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Creating, identifying, copying and
extending patterns
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Ordinal numbers
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Counting backwards from 10
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Identifying/counting pennies
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Matching numbers to sets of objects
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Telling time to the hour
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Comparing and ordering objects by weight
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Counting by 10s
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Identifying/counting dimes to 50 cents
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Paying for items up to $1.00
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Identifying days of the week and months of
the year
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Identifying trapezoids and parallelograms
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Identifying yesterday and tomorrow
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Identifying and ordering numbers 0-20
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Identifying numbers before, between, and
after
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Identifying a 1 cup measuring cup and quart
container
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Identifying full, half full, and empty
containers
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Comparing lengths - longer/shorter
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Ordering objects by length
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Creating a graph
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Identifying nickels and counting by 5s up
to 25 cents
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Identifying a cylinder
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Ordering objects by height
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Paying for items up to 50 cents using
nickels
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Dividing by sharing
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Identifying left and right
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Exploring slides, flips, and turns using
tangrams
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Counting forwards and backwards on a number
line
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Identifying numbers through 30
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Identifying a sphere
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Sorting coins
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Identifying a quarter and a dollar bill
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Paying for items using pennies, nickels,
dimes, and quarters
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Identifying a cone
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Counting by 2s
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Identifying odd/even numbers through 10
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Identifying and making symmetrical designs
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Acting out stories - some more, some went
away (addition and subtraction)
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Identifying hot and cold
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Measuring length using inches
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Identifying halves and fourths (fractions
Monthly Units and Themes (if
time allows):
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September
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Our Classroom, Our Names, Apples
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October
– Pumpkins, Fall, Fire Safety and Prevention, Colors
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November
– Thanksgiving, Pilgrims, Native Americans, The
Family
Turkey
Project
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December
– Winter Celebrations and Holidays
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January
– Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 100th Day of School,
Winter
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February
– Presidents and
The White House, Valentine’s Day
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March
– Dr. Seuss, St.
Patrick’s Day
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April
– Oviparous Animals, Spring Egg Hunt, Earth Day, Donuts with
Daddy
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May
– Cinco
de Mayo, Mother’s Day
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June
– Getting Ready for First Grade, Summer Fun