Curriculum Kindergarten
PREREADING AND BEGINNING READING
phonemic awareness
oral language skills
visual discrimination
auditory discrimination
classification
rhyming
alphabet recognition
sequencing
left to right progression - visual and kinesthetic
picture-word association
initital sound association
final sound association
picture sentence matching
beginning blending
developing sight word vocabulary
sentence comprehension
LITERATURE AND ORAL LANGUAGE SKILLS
listening to stories and poetry
participating in dramatics
following oral directions
recall of specific information
listening to others in group discussions
participating in group discussions
WRITTEN EXPRESSION
student dictation
experience charts and stories
writing in journals
computer stories
book making
notes to others
invented spelling
MATHEMATICS
color
quantitative concepts
positional words
size differences
shape recognition
comparing & classifying objects by size, shape, color & texture
one to one correspondence
numbers to 100 - count, recognize, write
beginning place value
comparing greater than, less than
making and completing patterns
graphing
estimations
whole number addition and subtraction
measurement
fractions
money
problem solving skills
time
SOCIAL STUDIES
Adventures of Starting School
Meeting Families
Let's Explore(environmental studies, diversity of lifestyles)
Our Community, Our World
National Symbols - Global Studies
Special Days (Holidays)
SCIENCE
The Five Senses
Characteristics of Living Things
Body Parts
Looking at the Earth and Sky
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
perceptual motor skills
spatial awareness
balance
obstacle course
rope and ball skills
large muscle skills games