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