Kindergarten
Future Kindergartners Presentation
National PTA: Kindergarten Parents' Guide to Student Success
Language Arts
- Reading: attend and respond to quality literature read orally
- Writing: use letters to symbolize words
- Listening: listen to others without interrupting
- Speaking: express thoughts and ideas in complete sentences
- Convention/Structure: understand that letters make up words, and that words can be either printed or spoken
Mathematics
- Number sense: Begin to understand our number system by identifying numerals; by counting; and by grouping
- Geometry: Identify, sort, and draw shapes
- Measurement: Explore measurement of length using unifix cubes; compare volumes; identify first, next and last
- Operations and computation: Use objects to add and subtract
- Patterns and relationships: Recognize and create patterns
- Probability and statistics: Sort objects; make and interpret graphs
Science
Content: participate in hands-on activities in the following areas:
- Content: participate in hands-on activities in the following areas:
- Astronomy: earth, moon, sun, and stars
- Earth Science: ecology
- Health: getting to know myself
- Life Science: seeds to plants
- Physical Science: water explorations
- Skills:
- predict
- observe
- collect and record data
- interpret
- classify
- raw conclusions
Social Studies
- Content: study individuals and families
- Skills: develop self-awareness; develop respect for others