Click the link below to view the Oklahoma Academic Standards for kindergarten students. 

Oklahoma Academic Standards for Kindergarten 

These are great tools to help families prepare for kindergarten.  You will also find other grade levels at this link. 

Family Guides for our Oklahoma Academic Standards (This includes specials areas as well.)

Language Arts Family Guide 

Math Family Guide 

Science Family Guides 

Social Studies Family Guide 

Here are some areas that the STAR Early Literacy Test will cover.  More information is coming soon. 

The Math STAR test covers Counting and Cardinality (comparing and ordering); Operations and Algebraic Thinking (addition and subtraction);  Geometry (2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes), Expressions and Equations; Operations and Fractions; and Functions, Number and Operations in Base Ten, Statistics and Probability, etc.  More specific iinformation will be coming on the assessment for math.

When you see children in the dramatic play area of a classroom,

• They are learning how to interact with other children.

• They are using vocabulary words.

• They are making connections between what they have learned in school with what they already know.

• They are solving problems.

• They are taking what they have learned from a lesson and put it into practice.

• This could be a garden station where they are pretending to work at a gardening center.  This could be a dental office where they are pretending to be dentist.  It could be a housekeeping area where they are feeding their family.  It could a pumpkin station where they are measuring how much a pumpkin ways.  It could be using blocks to build a zoo and incorporating writing.

• Reading, writing and oral language is incorporated into this station as well as all academic areas. 

When you see children at the pocket chart station,

• They are working on a skill from any academic area.

• They are playing a matching  or sorting game.

• They are putting the words in a sentence together.  

• They are putting a number sentence together.

• They are comparing and ordering items.

• They are talking and working together on a skill in a hands on way.

These are stations where the children are working on math or language arts skills.  It could also include other academic areas.

• The children are learning in a fun way.

• It doesn't feel like learning to them because it is hands on.

• The children could be putting together the puzzle of the United States locating Oklahoma.  They could be putting puzzles together that have numbers on them and they are ordering the numbers.  There are puzzles that work on addition and subtraction.  There are puzzles that work on the alphabet or reading a word.

• We have a lot of games that we do in stations.  Sometimes they will play against themselves and sometimes they are playing with a friend.  However, they are learning how to win and lose.  It is much harder to lose, but they need to know how to handle it gracefully.  It will also build problem solving skills in a child to help them learn how to win the next time. 

The children also learn through food opportunities.  We have Fun Food Fridays where we use food and tie it to a concept that we have been working on in any academic area. 

• The children will take animal crackers and find ways to sort them (tail or no tail, runs or flies, broken or not)

• The children have made pumpkin pudding by following the steps on a recipe.

• The children also get to visit Epworth Villa which is a retirement center next to our school.  There they enjoy cooking lessons with the residents.  

• Cooking with your child is a great way to teach many academic skills (reading a recipe, following directions, measuring, counting, safety, healthy eating habits, etc.)  

• Plus, the children look forward to this on Fridays because it is fun to have a snack that  you were able to help prepare!

We are not able to do a lot of field trips during the year.  However, we always have members from the community willing to come in and work with our students and also teach and expose them to a variety of opportunities.  

• Epworth Villa residents are always at our school for assemblies, guest reading, and tutoring students.

• Dental Depot comes to our school to help the children learn about how to take care of their teeth.

• Czar Athletics comes to our school to talk to the children about how to be healthy.

• Community workers like the police, fire department, nurses, and many more come to our school to give talks and demonstrations.

• We also have many opportunities to watch our high school students show us their talents athletically or musically.

All these experiences are different ways to present information to the children that will make a lasting impact. It's also an great way to get the community involved in the education of the students.