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
- Identify, write and count to 100 by 1′s, 2′s, 5′s, and 10′s
- Identify basic shapes, patterns and graphs
- Understand and apply concepts of addition and subtraction to 12
- Exemplars Problem solving
- Introduction to fractions, coins, time, measurement, and place value
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
Foreign Languages
Introduction to language and culture. Thematic units include:
- numbers, colors, and shapes
- seasons and weather
- the calendar
- food
- transportation
- common phrases
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.