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Kindergarten Syllabus
1st Grading Period
Reading
Recognize upper/lowercase letters.
Focus on concepts of prints.
Demonstrate an initial understanding of letter-sound relationships.
Recalling/recognizing information: characters, character traits, setting, details, main idea, beginning/ending of stories.
Retelling stories.
Exhibit an awareness of the concept of a story.
Begin to use a variety of early reading materials.
Practicing with decodable text.
Recognizing high frequency words.
Using predictable text.
Writing
Begin to use the elements of the writing process.
Using writing skills: manipulating various writing tools.
Express meaning through writing: drawing pictures, writing strings of letters.
Write upper/lowercase letters.
Science/Social Studies
Identify the four seasons.
Compare families of today with families of the past in relation to work, home, or school.
Identify various community helpers and their role in the community.
Explaining the necessity for rules and laws and the consequences of failing to obey them.
Classify objects using the five senses.
Math
Represent, count and write numbers 0 – 9.
Identify rectangles, squares, circles, triangles, and hexagons using shapes or drawings.
Count from 0 – 100.
Expose students to coins: penny, nickel, dime, and quarter,
Calendar routines: attendance, weather, number of days in school, days of the week, month of the year, seasons.
Kindergarten Syllabus2nd Grading Period
Reading
Recognize and name upper/lowercase letters.
Focus on concepts of print.
Demonstrate an initial understanding of letter-sound relationships.
Retelling stories.
Exhibit an awareness of the concept of a story.
Begin to use a variety of early reading materials.
Practicing with decodable text.
Recognizing high frequency words.
Using predictable text.
Recalling/recognizing information: characters, character traits, setting, details, main idea, beginning/ending of stories.
Writing
Begin to use the elements of the writing process.
Using writing skills: manipulating various writing tools.
Express meaning through writing: drawing pictures, writing strings of letters.
Write upper/lowercase letters.
Math
Count from 0 – 50.
Count forward beginning from a given number.
Write numbers 0 – 20.
Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities.
Understand that the last name said tells the number of objects.
Shapes (circle, square, hexagon, triangle, and rectangle).
Compose and decompose numbers from 5 – 10.
Science/Social Studies
Identify the four seasons.
Compare families of today with families of the past in relation to work, home, and school.
Identify various community helpers and their role in the community.
Kindergarten Syllabus3rd Grading Period
Reading/Language Arts
· Recognize and name upper/lowercase letters.
· Focus on concepts of print.
· Demonstrate an initial understanding of letter-sound relationships.
· Retelling stories.
· Exhibit an awareness of the concept of a story.
· Begin to use a variety of early reading materials.
· Practicing with decodable text.
· Recognizing high frequency words.
· Verbalize correct personal data.
· Using predictable text.
· Recalling/recognizing information: characters, character traits, setting, details, main idea, beginning/ending of stories.
Math
· Count from 0 – 100.
· Count forward beginning from a given number.
· Write numbers 0 – 20.
· Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities.
· Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity is one larger.
· Less than, greater than, and equal to.
· Solve addition word problems.
· Decompose number less than or equal to 10.
· Simple subtraction.
· Simple addition.
· Shapes
Writing
· Begin to use the elements of the writing process.
· Using writing skills: manipulating various writing tools.
· Write upper and lowercase letters.
· Express meaning through writing.
Science/Social Studies
· Classify objects using the five senses.
· Explaining the necessity for rules and laws and the consequences of failing to obey them.
· Identify the four seasons.
· Compare families of today with families of the past in relation to work, home and school.
Kindergarten Syllabus
4th Nine Weeks
Reading/Language Arts
Recognize and name upper and lowercase letters.
Exhibit knowledge of the conventions of print.
Exhibit an awareness of the concept of print.
Develop phonemic awareness.
Recognize high frequency words.
Exhibit expanded vocabulary and sentence awareness.
Focus on concepts of print.
Demonstrate an initial understanding of the letter-sound relationships.
Begin to use a variety of early reading materials:
Practicing with decodable text
Recognizing high frequency words
Using predictable text
Recognizing/using print in the environment.
Recalling information: characters, character traits, setting, details, main idea, beginning and ending of stories.
Retelling stories.
Exhibit an awareness of the concept of a story.
Recognizing and using print in the environment.
Begin to use pictures and text to gain meaning from written material.
Handle books and media responsibly
Use appropriate listening and speaking behaviors.
Exhibit expanded vocabulary and sentence awareness.
Writing
Begin to use the elements of the writing process.
Using writing skills: manipulating various writing tools.
Write upper and lowercase letters.
Express meaning through writing.
Exhibit an awareness of concepts of a story.
Science/Social Studies
Identify personal use of goods and services.
Identify seasons of the year.
Classify objects using the five senses.
Compare size, shape, structure, and basic needs of living things.
Identify various workers and their roles in the community.
Identify different ways to travel.
Math
Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals.
Describe measurable attributes of objects such as length or weight.
Describe several measurable attributes of a single object.
Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has “more of” or “less of” and describe the difference.
Identify rectangles, squares, circles, and triangles: recognizing like shapes in the environment.
Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects.
Identify shapes as 2 or 3 dimensional.
Analyze and compare 2 or 3 dimensional shapes in different sizes and orientations and describe their similarities and differences.
Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components and drawing shapes.
Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes.