LANGUAGE ARTS
Reading
Students will learn and effectively apply a variety of reading strategies for comprehending, interpreting and evaluating a wide range of texts including fiction, nonfiction, classic and contemporary works.
- Students will identify characters in a story and retell stories in sequence.
- Students will predict elements and events in a story.
- Students will identify facts in nonfiction material.
- Students will use phonetic skills to decode simple words.
- Students will comprehend the meaning using prior knowledge, letter-sound relationships and picture clues.
- Students will demonstrate an understanding of print concepts.
- Students will derive meaning from picture clues
- Students will derive meaning from illustrations/print using prior knowledge/experience.
- Students will derive meaning from print using sound-symbol relationships.
Writing
Students can effectively use written language for a variety of purposes arid with a variety of audiences.
- Students will be able to create narrative by drawing, telling and/or emergent writing.
- Students will be able to create a story by drawing, telling and/or emergent writing.
- Students will be able to create a message by drawing, telling and/or emergent writing.
- Students will spell simple words.
- Students will apply letter/sound relationships as emergent writers.
- Students will copy the 26 upper and lower case letters of the alphabet.
Listening and Speaking
Students effectively listen and speak in situations that serve different purposes and involve a variety of audiences.
- Students will tell or retell a personal experience or creative story in logical sequence.
- Students will follow simple directions.
- Students will share ideas, information, opinions and questions.
- Students will listen and respond to stories, poems and nonfiction.
- Students will participate in group discussions.
Viewing and Presenting
Students use a variety of visual media and resources to gather, evaluate and synthesize information and to communicate with others.
- Students will recognize and respond to visual messages such as logos, symbols and trademarks.
- Students will identify story events or information from visual media
- Students will create a visual representation of personal experiences through media such as drawing, painting, acting and puppeteering.
MATHEMATICS
Number Sense
Students develop number sense and use numbers and number relationships to acquire basic facts to solve a wide variety of real-world problems, and to determine the reasonableness of results.
- Students will develop an understanding of number meanings and relationships.
- Students will recite to 20.
- Students will read, write and estimate to 10.
- Students will count back from 10.
- Students will demonstrate one-to-one correspondence between elements in collections.
- Students will use manipulatives to count, order and group.
- Students will recognize relationships between concrete representations, number names, and symbolic representations of numbers.
Data Analysis and Probability
Students use data collection and analysis, statistics, and probability to make valid inferences, decisions and arguments and to solve a variety of real-world problems.
- Students will compare and sort objects by their physical attributes.
- Students will collect, organize and describe simple data
- Students will construct concrete displays of data; read and interpret elementary tables, graphs and charts.
Patterns, Algebra and Functions
Students use algebraic methods to explore, model and describe patterns, relationships and functions involving numbers, shapes, data and graphs within a variety of real-world problem-solving situations.
- Students will create, describe and extend a variety of patterns using concrete objects.
- Students will recognize that the same patterns can emerge from a variety of manipulative and real-world situations.
Geometry
Students use geometric methods, properties and relationships as a means to recognize, draw, describe, connect, and analyze shapes and representations in the physical world.
- Students will identify, compare, classify, draw and make models of circles, squares and triangles.
- Students will recognize geometry in their surroundings.
Measurement and Discreet Mathematics
Students make and use direct and indirect measurement, metric and U.S. customary, to describe and compare the real world and to prepare for the study of discrete functions, fractals and chaos which have evolved out of the age of technology.
- Students will recognize that a single object has different attributes that can be measured in different ways.
- Students will compare and order objects according to observable attributes.
- Students will use a variety of puzzles and games involving counting problems.
Mathematical Stricture/Logic
Students use both inductive and deductive reasoning as they make conjectures and test the validity of arguments.
- Students will sort and classify objects according to observable attributes.
- Students will justify answers and reasoning process.
SCIENCE
Physical Science
Students will understand the nature of matter and energy, including their forms, the changes they undergo, and their interactions.
- Students will examine, describe, classify, and compare objects in terms of common physical properties that can be determined by the five senses.
- Students will use simple instruments, such as hand lenses and balances, to examine, classify, and compare objects.
- Students will make observations associated with energy, movement, and change.
- Students will examine and describe the different ways things move: pushes and pulls, surfaces, directional motion.
Life Science
Students understand the interrelationships of matter and energy in living organisms and the interactions of living organisms with their environment. Students understand the characteristics of living things, the diversity of life, and how organisms change over time in terms of biological adaptation and genetics.
- Students will follow directions for observing, handling, and caring for living organisms.
- Students will recognize and distinguish similarities and differences in diverse species.
- Students will distinguish living from non-living things.
- Students will describe the basic needs of an organism.
- Students will recognize and demonstrate that green plants need sun and water to grow.
Earth and Space
Students understand the composition, formative process and history of the earth, the solar system, and the universe.
- Students will identify basic phenomena and changes in the sky.
- Students will understand that the sun heats and lights the earth.
- Students will identify how the weather affects daily activities.
- Students will identify the seasons and their characteristics and that objects in the sky have patterns of movement.
- Students will identify basic earth materials and their common uses.
Science in Persona! and Social Perspectives
As a result of activities students should have a developmental understanding
of Personal Health; Populations, Resources and Environments;;Natural Hazards; Risks and Benefits; Science and Technology in Society.
- Students will demonstrate an understanding of personal and societal challenges and recognize the linkages between populations, resources, environments, and technology.
- Students will distinguish between natural and man-made objects.
- Students will use simple technology.
SOCIAL STUDIES
The kindergarten social studies program develops the topic of”m&’ which is a natural beginning for children. From this starting point, children are led outward to explore their relationships with their families and friends. Children examine family life and culture, and then examine their relationships with the community.
In kindergarten, the uniqueness of the American way is handled through activities that deal with the American symbols, Pledge of Allegiance, patriotic songs, country holidays, and special Americans.
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