Kindergarten Academics
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Language Arts:
Reading-Literature / Reading- Informational Texts / Language / Reading Foundations
We will be working on the following reading standards this year:
- Identify/write all capital and lowercase letters
- Asks and answers key details from a nonfiction and fiction text
- Ask and answers unknown words in a nonfiction and fiction text
- Actively engages in Daily 5 routines
- Based on pictures in a story the child will make a prediction of what the story is about.
- Identify front, back, and title page of book
- Retell beginning, middle and end of a story
- Recognizes common types of texts: newspaper, magazine, poem, and story book
- Understands the job of an author and illustrator
- Understands rhyming
- Understands/writes CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words
- Able to identify characters, setting, and major events in a story
- Comparing and contrasting people, events or ideas, and common fairy tales in fiction texts
- Understand common verbs and adjectives
- Understands long and short vowel sounds
- Names 50 Fry words (list provided by teacher)
- Compare and contrast nonfiction texts
- Understands why an author wrote a story
- Understand multiple meaning words
- Can read/understand a beginning book fluently
- Can understand syllables
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Writing
We will be working on developing our skills by focusing on:
- ideas and content through drawing
- organization by writing sentences left to right
- style/fluency by writing complete sentences
- language usage/conventions: using high frequency words, capitals, spacing, punctuation
- neatness
- Four writing prompts: Research, Narrative, Informative, and Opinion
- Edit and revise
- Digitally record ideas
- Add details
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Mathematics
Geometry, Operations and Algebraic Thinking, Counting and Cardinality
We will be working on the following math standards this year:
- Names/draws 2D shapes
- Identifies 3D shapes
- Analyze and compare the difference between 2D and 3D shapes
- Uses geometric reasoning and visual characteristics of shapes to name shapes in a variety of sizes and orientations
- Strategically applies methods for keeping track of objects while counting
- Recognize spatial concepts (above, below, etc)
- Counting to 100 by ones and tens
- Names/writes numerals 0 - 20
- Counts objects with one-to-one correspondence
- Solve addition and subtraction story problems
- Can add and subtract up to 10
- Can add and subtract fluently up to 5
- Strategically applies strategies for comparing numbers
- Recognize without counting, the number of objects in familiar arrangements
- Count sequentially up to 50 starting from any given number
- Use simple shapes to form larger shapes
- Describes measurable attributes of objects using informal language
- Directly compares two objects to explain which object has “more of or less of” the attribute in question
- Sorts objects
- Effectively use strategies to count groups of objects
- Decomposes numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs (partners of 10)
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Social Studies
We will be working on the following themes this year:
- American Flag
- Families
- Communities
- Transportation
- Famous Leaders
- Healthy Habits
- Needs and Wants
- Community Helpers
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Science
These are the Next Generation Science Standards we will be working on this year:
- Forces and Interactions; pushes and pulls
- Animals, Plants and their environments: what they need for survival, argument with evidence to show how they can change environment to meet their needs, use model to represent needs of above and how determines where it lives, human impact on land; reduce, reuse, recycle
- Weather and Climate: make observations to determine effect of sunlight on earth’s surface, use tools/materials to design a structure to reduce warming effect of sunlight on an area, graph patterns of local weather conditions over time, ask questions about purpose of weather forecasting; prepare for severe weather
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