TRANSITIONAL KINDERGARTEN CURRICULUM OVERVIEW

Reading/Language Arts

• Alphabet recognition and sounds
• Phonemic awareness
• Rhyming
    o Beginning/middle/ending sounds in words
    o Segmenting sounds
    o Sound substitution
• Introduce high frequency words
• Vowels and consonants
• Journal and Letter People Journal
    o Create drawings
    o Cut out pictures
    o Write words

Mathematics:

• Patterns
• Numeration
    o Counting
    o 1:1 correspondence
    o Odd/even numbers
    o Number sets (comparing)
• Shapes
• Graphing real, pictorial and symbolic objects
• Measuring
• Place value (ones, tens, hundreds) introduced
• Money
• Time to the nearest hour and half hour
• Calendar activities

Handwriting:

• Handwriting Without Tears
• Songs and activities to learn drawing and proper letter and numeral formation

Science:

• Water cycle
• Weather: daily and seasons
• Healthy Teeth
• Dinosaurs
• Health/Nutrition
• Colors/rainbow
• Science Spin Magazine

Social Studies:

• Sign language
• Everyone is special
• Multicultural education (Kids All Over the World)
• Transportation (People Travel in Different Ways)
• Weekly Reader Magazine