Kindergarten Curriculum

Language Arts: Reading

Students are exposed to a broad selection of literary genres. Students develop listening, writing, and comprehension skills.

• Phonemic Awareness:
  • Rhymes
  • Isolate beginning, middle & ending phonemes
  • Count syllables
  • Blending
• Fluency:
  • Letter/ Sound Knowledge
  • Read grade appropriate text
  • High frequency sight words
  • Decoding
• Understanding of Literary Text
  • Character, Setting, Sequence
  • Predicting
  • Making Connections
  • Distinguish between fiction and non-fiction
  • Answering questions
  • Re-tell
• Reading Strategies
  • Predictable Text
  • Leveled Reading
  • Using prior knowledge: sight words and phonemic awareness
  • comprehension

Writing

• Drafting, editing, revising and publishing
• Ideas, Organization, Word Choice, Conventions
• Sentence Fluency
• Organizing pictures and words
• Responses to literature and informational text
• Applying rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics

Math

• Counting & Cardinality
• Geometry
• Identify basic shapes, patterns and graphs
• Understand and apply concepts of addition and subtraction to 12
• Measurement & Data
• Numbers & Operations in Base Ten
• Operations & Algebraic Thinking

Social Studies

• All about Me
• Families and Communities: Now and Long Ago
• Holidays Around the World
• USA Holidays and Symbols
• Different Cultures from Around the World

Science

• Living and Non Living things
• Animals & their Habitats
• Life Cycles
• Weather
• Marbles, Track & Ramps

Art

• Exploration of primary colors, multimedia, fine motor skills, and art history

Music

• Explore music vocabulary
• Explore rhythm and melody
• Listen and Sing
• Exposure to classics

Physical Education

• Introduction to motor skills and games
• Introduction to health and safety
• Introduction to organized sports and team activities

Character Education

Encompasses a core set of values that are interwoven throughout the curriculum. Qualities such as honesty, compassion, and respect are incorporated into our class community.

Performances

Kindergarten students participate in a spring performance, which includes acting and singing for the school community and families. In addition there is kindergarten graduation.