KINDERGARTEN CURRICULUM OVERVIEW

Language Arts

• Consonant Sounds
• Long and Short Vowel Sounds
• Segmentation
• Blending
• Phoneme Replacement
• Rhyming
• Syllables
• Compound Words
• Proper and Common Nouns
• Verbs, Adjectives, and Pronouns
• Sentence Structure and Punctuation
• Sentence Types
• Letter Formation
• Reading Comprehension
• Story Retelling

• High Frequency Words
• Vocabulary
• Fluency
• Sequencing

• Cause and Effect
• Listening Comprehension

Mathematics

• One-to-One Correspondence
• Counting and Counting Strategies (counting on, skip counting, and counting by 5's and 10's)
• More and Less
• Numbers 0-100; Numeral formation 1-10
• Geometry
• Patterns, Sorting, and Clarifying
• Money
• Time to the Nearest Hour and Half Hour
• Measuring Height, Length, Weight, and Capacity
• Comparing Length, Weight, and Capacity
• Joining and Separating Sets to 10
• Calendar Concepts

• Graphing

• Estimating

Science

• Nutrition and Healthy Body
• Earth’s Landforms (Rocks, Volcanoes, Erosion)
• Plants and Seeds
• Animal Characteristics and Habits

Social Studies

• Community
• Cultures and Traditions
• Holiday Traditions
• Service Learning
• Character Development
• Patriotism
• Global Awareness

• Important Dates in History (Martin Luther King, Jr. and Christopher Columbus)