Second Trimester Learning

Goals in Kindergarten
Reading
Phonemic Awareness Skills
Students will be able to:
blend and segment letters;
identify letters matched to a sound;
count, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words;
produce a rhyming word;
isolate and pronounce the first, medial vowel and final sounds in consonant-vowelconsonant (CVC) words.
Phonics
Students will be able to:
read 30 high-frequency words by sight;
read texts at their reading level accurately and fluently;
apply reading strategies when decoding words.
Parents, these questions may be helpful:
Does that sound right?
Does that look right?
Does that make sense?
Look at the word, does it look like?
Look at the beginning of that word, can you get it started?
Comprehension
Students will be able to:
retell a familiar story identifying characters, setting, and major events in a story;
make text-to-self connections;
compare and contrast the adventures of characters in familiar stories;
read informational text and identify the main idea.

Writing
Students will be able to:
write informative or explanatory texts in which they name the topic and include some
important information;
write an opinion about a topic or the name of a favorite book and support the opinion
with a reason;
vary sentence beginnings;
print many upper and lower case letters;
capitalize the pronoun I and begin capitalizing the first word of a sentence;
use some punctuation so it is easy to read.

Speaking and Listening

Students will be able to:
engage in conversations about grade-appropriate topics;
listen to what a speaker says and then ask questions to gain a better understanding;
describe familiar people, places, things, and events;
express thoughts, feelings and ideas clearly.

Math
Students will be able to:
count to 100 by tens;
count forward from any given number;
count to answer how many?
describe objects in the environment using names of shapes and describe the
positions of them using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and
next to;
identify two-dimensional shapes (hexagon, rhombus, square, circle, rectangle,
square, oval, trapezoid);
analyze and compare two dimensional shapes using their attributes (number of sides,
corners, having sides that are equal);
describe measurable attributes of an object, such as length and weight;
classify objects into given categories;
represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, drawings, or equations;
solve addition and subtraction word problems;
add and subtract within 10;
decompose numbers less than or equal to ten.

Science
Students will be able to:
study weather patterns to make an educated guess of the forecast;
investigate the effects of different strengths or different directions of pushes and pulls
on the motion of an object.

Social Studies
Students will be able to;
give examples of conflict and cooperation among individuals or groups;
identify stories about past events, people, places or situations;
identify connections between who they are as a person and their place in the world;
distinguish themselves as individuals and recognize that individual people are part of
a group;
recognize the differences between needs and wants.