Curriculum At A Glance
Dear Parents,
Your child is getting ready for kindergarten. Below you will find learning objectives for the school year and some skills to practice at home.

Reading
The student…
- recognizes letters of the alphabet
- associates sounds with letters of the alphabet
- understands basic phonological/phonetic principles (ex., knows rhyming words, knows words that have the same initial and final sounds)
- blends individual sounds into words
- understands how print is organized and read (ex., locating print on a page, matching print to speech, knowing parts of a book, reading from top-to-bottom, left-to-right and sweeping back to left for the next line)
- uses a variety of sources to build vocabulary (ex., word walls, other people and life experiences)
- develops vocabulary by discussing characters and events from a story
- uses strategies to comprehend text (ex., retelling, discussing, asking questions, using illustrations and sequences of events)
- knows the main idea or essential message from a read-aloud story or informational piece
- selects materials to read for pleasure
- demonstrates phonemic awareness
Writing
The student...
- writes a story that makes sense
- stays on topic
- demonstrates phonemic awareness
- uses sight words
- writes from left to right
- leaves space between words
Mathematics
Number Sense
The student…
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counts, reads and writes numerals to 10 or more and counts backwards from 10 to 1
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knows that cardinal numbers indicate quantity and ordinal numbers indicate position
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uses language such as before or after to describe relative position in a sequence of whole numbers
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compares 2 or more sets (up to 10) and identifies which set is equal to, more than or less than.
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uses concrete materials to represent whole number and fractional parts of a whole (ex., one-half and one-fourth)
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counts orally by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s using concrete materials, pictures and hundred chart to show the concept of numbers
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demonstrates and describes the effect of putting together and taking apart sets of objects
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creates, acts out with objects, and solves number problems
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estimates the number in a set and verifies by counting
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builds models to show that numbers are odd or even
Measurements
The student…
- measures and communicates length, distance and weight of objects using nonstandard, concrete materials
- describes the concepts of time, temperature and capacity
- uses direct and indirect comparison to sort and order objects
- uses uniform, nonstandard units to estimate and verify by measuring length and width of common classroom objects
- knows and compares the value of a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter
- knows measurement tools and uses them for length, weight, capacity and time
- knows and sorts 2-dimensional shapes (ex., circles, squares and triangles) and 3-dimensional objects (ex., cubes and cones)
- recognizes and creates symmetrical figures
- knows the attributes of circles, squares, triangles and rectangles
*Skills to Practice at Home*
* Independent self-help skills such as putting things away, hand washing, toileting, eating and opening containers, tying laces, etc.
* Practice one-step and multi-step directions
* Cooperative Play
* Knows, recognizes and writes name
* Knows birthday, phone number, and address
* Establish routines for various activities
* Gross motor skills such as climbing and skipping
* Fine motor skills cutting, pasting, lacing, etc.
* Memory Games
* Book handling skills