READING

• Listens attentively to books read in class
• Understand the meaning of authors and illustrators
• Makes predictions based on illustrations
• Reads familiar texts emergently
• Begins to track print of familiar text
• Introduced to a variety of genres
• Recognizes and writes own first name
• Differentiates between letters and words
• Rapid identification of all Capital and lower case letters
• Recognizes some basic sight words
• Expands vocabulary

WRITING

• Participates in daily group interactive writing
• Words are separated by spaces
• Left to right/top to bottom/return sweep progression of print
• Writes most Capital and lower case letters
• Appropriate use of capital and lower case letters using correct formation
• Identifies punctuation marks (. ! and ?)
• Begins to spell words phonetically by articulating words slowly and recording sounds with letters
• Spells some words conventionally

PHONEMIC AWARENESS

• Isolates beginning and ending sounds in words
• Understands rhyme
• Segments words into sounds
• Blends sounds into words
• Substitutes sounds in words

PHONICS

• Demonstration of the alphabetic principle:
• words are made up of sounds/sounds are represented by letters
• Associates consonant letters with their sounds
• Introduce vowel letters and sounds
• Decodes simple consonant-vowel-consonant words (ie. cat)

MATH

• Count by rote up to 50
• Recognize and name numerals up to 20
• Write numerals up to 20
• Match a number to a collection of objects
• Compare two groups of objects and identify which group has more, less or is equal to the other group
• Development of number sense
• Addition of two groups using manipulatives
• Subtraction of two groups using manipulatives
• Exposure to the fraction 1/2
• Create graphs and analyze using most, least, and equal
• Estimate
• Sort, classify and describe two dimensional shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, diamond and oval)
• Measurement using non standard units (unifix cubes, connecting links or other manipulative)
• Identify and create various patterns
• Introduction to calendar time in days, months and the year
• Introduction to money with emphasis on the penny, nickel, dime and their value
• Introduction to problem solving through word problems
• Exposure to the analog clock
• Explore geometry through geometric manipulatives

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Introduction of past, present and future time
• Discuss local, state and national holidays as they are celebrated throughout the school year
• Introduction to mapping by making story maps
• Introduction of community workers and how they relate to our school and community

SCIENCE

• Bears
• Farm animals
• Plants
• Matter (characteristics; liquids and solids)
• Movements (magnets)
• Weather
• Recycling
• Being Healthy

KINDERGARTEN HOMEWORK

Read aloud daily to your child to:

• Stimulate imagination!
• Expand vocabulary!
• Develop book knowledge!
• Develop listening skills!
• Grow and love to read!

Count Everything!