KINDERGARTEN OBJECTIVES

By the end of Kindergarten, students should Problem Solving

be able to: • Interpret simple graphs
• Create addition and subtraction number stories
LANGUAGE ARTS
Reading SCIENCE
-Word Study • Learn about the five senses
• Recognize letter-sound relationships • Learn about living things
• Recognize grade-appropriate sight words • Learn features of the night and daytime sky
• Identify and generate rhyming words
• Use a reading strategy when confronted with an
unknown word
SOCIAL STUDIES
• Recognize that every family is unique
-Fluency • Distinguish between the four different seasons
• Engage in shared/independent reading of familiar • Determine that the Earth is round and is made of
predictable text. water and land
-Comprehension • Recognize months, weeks, and days of the year
• Tell a story using wordless pictures
• Sequence story events using pictures
• Identify characters, setting, and events of a story
PERSONAL SKILLS
• Make predictions in a story and ask appropriate • Color neatly - Knows address
questions • Cut properly - Knows phone number
• Identify left and right - Knows birthday
Writing • Prints first/last name
-Writes legibly
• Print correct letter shape, size, spacing, and
smoothness PHYSICAL EDUCATION
-Written language -Physical skills
• Express ideas in writing using emergent spelling • Combine basic locomotor and non-locomotor
and known sight words movement patterns
• Interpret own writing • Participate in activities that improve physical
fitness
Speaking
• Speak effectively with appropriate volume
-Cooperation
• Play cooperatively with others
• Participate in class discussions
• Identify and demonstrate basic safety rules
• Remain on topic
Listening ART
• Listen effectively by looking at speaker, sitting
quietly -Understands and Applies Concepts
• Respond to and ask appropriate questions • Follow sequenced verbal and visual directions
• Identify basic colors, shapes and lines and use
them in a composition
MATHEMATICS • Use tools and materials appropriately
Numeration • Demonstrate use of fine motor skills
• Complete and produce patterns • Clean up work space
• Recognize and print numerals 0-20
• Count using 1:1 correspondence
• Count by 2’s to 20
MUSIC
• Move and play to a steady beat
• Count by 1’s, 5’s and 10’s to 100
• Distinguish sounds and the way we use our
• Identify numbers before and after 0-30
voices
Operations • Discriminate sensory contrasts – fast/slow,
• Solve simple addition and subtraction problems loud/soft, long/short, high/low and
Measurement same/different.
• Sort objects using varying attributes • Read pictorial notation for rhythm and pitch
• Recognize a penny, nickel, dime, & quarter • Sequence and sing words and actions for songs
• Tell time to the hour • Identify the sounds of an orchestra
Geometry
• Identify shapes