Curriculum Information

ELA Standards

1st Quarter Objectives

*Print many upper and lowercase letters.*Sort common objects into categories,*Identify real-life connections between words and their use.*Begin to understand concepts of print. (Left-to-right directionality, title, author, concept of a word)*Recognize and produce rhyming words.*Demonstrate knowledge of one-to-one letter sound correspondence by producing the primary sound for each consonant.*Actively engage in group reading activities.*Recognize common types of texts.*Describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear.*Participate in discussions with partners about kindergarten topics and texts.*Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.*Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.*Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate an event.

2nd Quarter Objectives

*Understand and use question words when writing and speaking (who, what, when, where, why how).*Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.*Recognize and name end punctuation (period, question mark, exclamation point).*Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately. (Ex: Duck is a bird and learning the verb “to duck”.)*Use the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (_ed, _s, _ful, _less, re_, un_) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.*Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites.*Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.*Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.*Count, pronounce, blend and segment syllables in spoken words.*Isolate and blend the initial, medial vowel and final sounds in consonant-vowel-consonant words. (cat, pig, sit, mop…)*With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.*With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.*With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.*With prompting and support, identify characters, setting, and major events in a story.*Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings and ideas clearly.*Use a combination of drawing, dictating and writing to compose opinion pieces.*Use a combination of drawing, dictating and writing to tell about an event.*With guidance and support, add details to writing.*With guidance and support, recall information from experiences to answer a question.

3rd Quarter Objectives

*Retell familiar stories…Identify the main topic, key details, characters, and setting*Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas or pieces of information in a text.*Name the author and illustrator of a text and describe the role of each.*Describe the relationship between the illustrations and the text in which they appear.*Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.*Identify the similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic.*Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial and final sounds in CVC (consonant/vowel/consonant) words. (hat, pig, mop, etc.)*Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings for the five major vowels.*Read common high frequency words by sight.*Read emergent reader texts with purpose and understanding.*Use a combination of drawing and writing to compose an opinion piece about a book they have heard or read.*Add details to writing by responding to questions and suggestions from adults and peers.*Participate in shared research and writing projects.*Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.*Continue conversations with partners about kindergarten topics and texts.*Confirm understanding of a text read aloud by asking and answering questions about key details.*Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/….(dog, dogs; wish, wishes).*Use correct capitalization and punctuation when writing.*Write a letter for each corresponding consonant and short vowel sound.*With guidance and support, explore word relationships and word meanings.

4th Quarter Objectives for Kindergarten

*Use the most frequently occurring prepositions when writing or speaking. (to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with)*Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of letter-sound relationships.*Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites.*Act out the meanings of similar verbs.*Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words.*Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel sound, and final sounds in CVC (consonant/vowel/consonant) words.*Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings for the five major vowels.*Read common high frequency words by sight.*Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.*Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.*Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.*Describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear.*Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.*Identify basic similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic.*Identify characters, setting, and major events in a story.*Recognize common types of texts (storybooks, poems…)*Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.*Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.*Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and when asked, provide additional details.*Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.*Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.*Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.*Participate in shared research and writing projects.*Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

Math Standards

First Quarter big ideas:

Know number names and the count sequence.
Count to tell the number of objects.
Describe and compare measurable attributes.
Classify objects and count the number of objects in categories.
Rote count to 20.
Count forward to 10 from any given number.
Write the numbers 1-10.
Count objects to 10 using one-to-one correspondence.
Correctly count out objects when given a number 1-20.
Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than or equal to the number of objects in another group.

Second Quarter big ideas:

Know number names and the count sequence.
Count to tell the number of objects.
Compare numbers.
Identify and describe shapes.
Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes.

Third Quarter big ideas:

Know number names and the count sequence.
Count to tell the number of objects.
Compare numbers.
Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from.

Fourth Quarter big ideas:

Count to tell the number of objects.
Compare numbers.
Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from.
Work with numbers 11-19 to gain foundations for place value.

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