KINDERGARTEN OBJECTIVES

By the end of Kindergarten, students should be able to:

LANGUAGE ARTS

Reading

-Word Study

·          Recognize letter-sound relationships

·          Recognize grade-appropriate sight words

·          Identify and generate rhyming words

·          Use a reading strategy when confronted with an unknown word

-Fluency

·          Engage in shared/independent reading of familiar predictable text.

-Comprehension

·          Tell a story using wordless pictures

·          Sequence story events using pictures

·          Identify characters, setting, and events of a story

·          Make predictions in a story and ask appropriate questions

Writing

-Writes legibly

·          Print correct letter shape, size, spacing, and smoothness

-Written language

·          Express ideas in writing using emergent spelling and known sight words

·          Interpret own writing

Speaking

·          Speak effectively with appropriate volume

·          Participate in class discussions

·          Remain on topic

Listening

·          Listen effectively by looking at speaker, sitting quietly

·          Respond to and ask appropriate questions

MATHEMATICS

Numeration

·          Complete and produce patterns

·          Recognize and print numerals  0-20

·          Count using 1:1 correspondence

·          Count by 2’s to 20

·          Count by 1’s, 5’s and 10’s to 100

·          Identify numbers before and after 0-30

Operations

·          Solve simple addition and subtraction problems

Measurement

·          Sort objects using varying attributes

·          Recognize a  penny, nickel, dime, & quarter

·          Tell time to the hour

Geometry

·          Identify shapes

Problem Solving

·          Interpret simple graphs

·          Create addition and subtraction number stories

SCIENCE

·          Learn about the five senses

·          Learn about living things

·         Learn features of the night and daytime sky

SOCIAL STUDIES

·          Recognize that every family is unique

·          Distinguish between the four different seasons

·          Determine that the Earth is round and is made of water and land

·          Recognize months, weeks, and days of the year

PERSONAL SKILLS

·          Color neatly                       - Knows address

·          Cut properly                      - Knows phone number

·          Identify left and right        - Knows birthday

·          Prints first/last name

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

-Physical skills

·          Combine basic locomotor and non-locomotor movement patterns

·          Participate in activities that improve physical fitness

-Cooperation

·          Play cooperatively with others

·          Identify and demonstrate basic safety rules

ART

-Understands and Applies Concepts

·          Follow sequenced verbal and visual directions

·          Identify basic colors, shapes and lines and use them in a composition

·          Use tools and materials appropriately

·          Demonstrate use of fine motor skills

·          Clean up work space

MUSIC

·          Move and play to a steady beat

·          Distinguish sounds and the way we use our  voices

·          Discriminate sensory contrasts – fast/slow, loud/soft, long/short, high/low and same/different.

·          Read pictorial notation for rhythm and pitch

·          Sequence and sing words and actions for songs

·          Identify the sounds of an orchestra