During the school year, Kindergartners will be working on learning the following Reading, Writing, and Language Arts objectives:
recognition of all upper/lower case letters
letter sounds
practice writing all upper/lower case letters
recognition of color words
recognition of sight words
knowledge of rhyming words
knowledge of words that begin with a given sound
practice writing first and last name
phonemic awareness skills
how a book works
be able to retell a story including story elements
express written ideas and some details about a topic or a book when expressing an opinion, explaining information or telling a story
applies grade level grammar such as spaces in between words, capitalization and ending punctuation
takes turns speaking and listening to others including asks/answers questions and tells about a topic, text or event
uses key vocabulary acquired through conversations and texts
During the school year, Kindergartners will be working on learning the following math objectives:
recognition of numbers 0 – 20
counting independently to 100 (and beyond) by any given number
practice writing numbers 0 – 20
understanding the concept of first, second, etc.
explore, make and extend a given pattern
knowledge of left and right
exploration of positional words (between, above, below, etc.)
identification of shapes
addition and subtraction of facts 0 – 10 with manipulatives
explore and make a graph
match objects to numerals 0 – 20
compare numbers 1-10 using greater than, less than or equal to
compose and decompose numbers from 11-19 into “tens” and “ones”
decompose numbers up to 10 in more than one way
finds the number that makes 10 given any number less than 10