Kindergarten Curriculum
Science
Physical Science – Matter, Energy, force and motion
Ø What is matter?
Ø How can matter be sorted, described and changed?
Ø How does the sun change things?
Ø What makes shadows?
Ø How do people get energy and how does it move?
Ø How do things move?
Ø How can we change motion?
Ø How can magnets move objects?
Ø What are vibrations?
Earth Science – Earth and its weather and space
Ø Where is life on earth?
Ø What is land made of?
Ø What is water like?
Ø How can we care for earth?
Ø What is weather and how can we measure it?
Ø How does the weather change with the season?
Ø What can we see in the day and night skies?
Life Science – animals, plants and habitats
Ø What are living and nonliving things?
Ø What are animals and plants like and what do they need?
Ø How do animals and plants grow and change?
Ø Where do animals and plants live?
Ø How do plants and animals need one another
Social studies
Being a good citizen
Ø Follow rules
Ø Work together
Ø Safety signs
Ø Taking responsibility
Ø Groups around the world
My country
Ø The flag we wave
Ø Look at a map of our country
Ø Symbols of the United States
Ø Our leaders
Ø Make a choice by voting
Ø Living with freedom
Workers
Ø Workers
Ø Tools long ago
Ø Working for money
Ø Make a choice when buying
Ø Using resources
Ø From the farm to your table
Ø Goods around the world
Where we live
Ø Land and water on the earth
Ø Read a globe
Ø Models and maps
Ø Read map symbols
Ø Regions
Ø City and farm life
Time goes by
Ø Yesterday, today and tomorrow
Ø Use a calendar
Ø Months of the year
Ø Change over time Stories of the past
Ø American Holidays
Ø Read a time line
Ø Colonial life
Ø Tell fact from fiction
Ø Clues from the past
Ø Family history
Ø Making history
Biographies: -
Ø Mary McLeod Bethune
Ø Benjamin Franklin
Ø Martin Luther King Jr.
Ø Cesar Chavez
Ø John Chapman
Ø Abraham Lincoln
Ø George Washington
Ø Betsy Ross
Mathematics
Ø Sorting and classifying – color, size, kind
Ø Spatial awareness – top, bottom, middle, in, out, above below, over, under, left, right
Ø Movement patterns
Ø Read and copy simple patterns
Ø Copy and extend patterns
Ø Predict and extend patterns
Ø Transfer, understand and create a pattern
Ø Equal groups
Ø Numbers 0-100
Ø More
Ø Fewer
Ø Before and after on a number line
Ø Sort solid figures
Ø Move solid figures
Ø Sort plane shapes
Ø Plane shapes in different positions
Ø Symmetry
Ø Equal parts
Ø Count to 100 – 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, 10’s
Ø Even and odd numbers
Ø Ordinal numbers
Ø Value of penny, nickel and dime
Ø Morning, afternoon and evening
Ø More and less time
Ø Use a clock
Ø Compare and order lengths
Ø Measure and weigh with nonstandard units
Ø Compare capacity
Ø Make concrete, picture graphs
Ø Use data from a graph
Ø Read and make a tally table
Ø Explore probability
Ø Make predictions
Ø Model addition
Ø Addition patterns
Ø Use pictures to add
Ø Add with money
Ø Model subtraction
Ø Subtraction patterns
Ø Use pictures to subtract
Ø Subtract with money
Ø Choose the operation
English Language Arts
Sharing literature and listening comprehension
Ø Moo, Moo, Brown Cow
Ø From Anne to Zach
Ø I Read Signs
Ø Look out Kindergarten, Here I Come
Ø Jazzbo and Googy
Ø Mice Squeak, We Speak
Ø Hello Toes! Hello Feet
Ø The Body Book
Ø Peanut Butter and Jelly
Ø Bunny Cakes
Ø Hold the Anchovies
Ø Stone soup
Ø The Gingerbread Man
Ø Yellow butter
Ø Dig a Little hole
Ø Warthogs in the kitchen
Ø The crayon box that talked
Ø I took my frog to the library
Ø Off we go
Ø A birthday basket for Tia
Ø Let’s go Froggy
Ø Dear Juno
Ø The three bears
Ø Jamaica’s Find
Ø Does a kangaroo have a mother too?
Ø Are you there baby bear?
Ø The three billy goats gruff
Ø A time for playing
Ø Chicken forgets
Ø The town mouse and the country mouse
Ø Five little pigs
Ø Look closer
Ø Butterfly
Ø The ants and the grasshopper
Ø Wonderful worms
Ø Anansi and the biggest, sweetest melon
Ø The fearsome beast
Ø The ants come marching
Ø Walking through the jungle
Ø Elmer
Ø The rooster who went to his uncle’s wedding
Ø So say the little monkeys
Ø Counting crocodiles
Ø The strongest one of all
Ø Going on a bear hunt
Ø The hare and the tortoise
Ø The shape of things
Ø Benny’s pennies
Ø The shoemaker and the elves
Ø Mr. Backward
Ø Good bye, hello
Ø My pet spider
Ø Caps for sale
Ø Sing a song of people
Ø The big yellow bus
Ø Career day
Ø Guess who?
Ø Mother, mother, I want another
Ø Franklin in the dark
Ø This is the way we go to school
Ø Five little ducks
Ø Come along Daisy
Ø Bear in there
Ø What’s that?
Ø Henny Penny
Ø Blame
Ø Splash in the ocean
Ø Fish faces
Ø Swimmy
Ø A house by the sea
Ø There’s a hole in the middle of the sea
Ø The seashore noisy book
Ø If you ever
Phonemic Awareness and phonics
Ø The alphabet
Ø Uppercase and lowercase letters
Ø Consonants m, s, r, t, c, p
Ø Short vowel – a
Ø Blending am, ap, at
Ø Consonants n, d, g, f, l, h
Ø Short vowel i
Ø Blending it, ig, ip,
Ø Consonants b, k, w, x
Ø Short vowel o
Ø Blending ot, ox, op
Ø Consonants v, j, y, z
Ø Short vowel e
Ø Blending et, ed, en
Ø Consonant q
Ø Short vowel u
Ø Blending ut, ug, un
High Frequency Words
Ø A, my, the
Ø I, like
Ø Go, we
Ø On, to
Ø You, have
Ø Do, what
Ø No, see
Ø Look, come
Ø For, me
Ø One, little
Ø Are, here
Early Literacy Skills
Ø What is a word? – colors
Ø Environmental print
Ø Following oral directions
Ø Parts of a story
Reading
Pre decodable books
Ø First day at school
Ø Where’s my Teddy?
Ø Pet day
Ø My bus
Ø The party
Ø The salad
Ø I am
Ø The mat
Ø We go
Ø I nap
Ø Tap, tap, tap
Ø The park
Ø Sit on my chair
Ø My pig
Ø I have, you have
Ø Soup
Ø The dig
Ø Kip the ant
Ø The big ram
Ø What can hop?
Ø I can see it
Ø What is in the box?
Ø Hop on top
Ø A big, big van
Ø Come in
Ø Hop in
Ø Is it for me?
Ø We can fix
Ø A hat I like
Ø Little cat, big cat
Ø But I can
Ø Up, up, up
Ø Is it a fish?
Ø It is fun
Ø A bug can tug
Ø Sid hid
Ø In a sub
Independent reader
Ø We like school
Ø I have a pal
Ø I am Pat
Ø Max
Ø In Bed
Ø Hot soup
Ø Happy birthday
Ø The big carrot
Ø Here we come
Ø Fun at camp
Ø A tiger in my box
Ø Pop-pop
Ø Play cake
Ø Too little
Ø Lil’s big day
Ø Where do pigs play?
Ø A dog has pups
Ø Insects and spiders
Ø A bug needs a home
Ø Amazing ants
Ø See me play
Ø Little red hen bakes a cake
Ø The ice fair
Ø The lost dog
Ø Mack and Will are friends
Ø A good home
Ø Neighborhood friends
Ø The fire bell rings
Ø Lots of jobs
Ø Up the hill
Ø Float on the boat
Ø Silly pig
Ø At the beach
Ø The best boat
Ø Dive in the ocean
Writing
Shared writing
Ø Names, animal names, alphabet poster
Ø Signs
Ø Story character names
Ø Sentences with action words
Ø New verses
Ø Story
Ø Writing process
Ø Salads
Ø Grocery list
Ø Birthday message
Ø Menu
Ø Write a story
Ø Library visit
Ø Naming words
Ø Letter
Ø Write a story
Ø Class story
Ø Chart
Ø Thank you note
Ø List
Ø Story map
Ø Message
Ø Song verse
Ø Invitation
Ø Instructions
Ø Write about a job
Ø Bus rules
Ø Letter
Interactive writing
Ø Labels
Ø Charts
Ø Animal homes
Ø Mural
Ø Recipe
Ø Food poster
Ø Directions
Ø List of rules
Ø Sentences
Ø Birthday message
Ø Opposites
Ø Word web
Ø List
Ø Describing words
Ø Questions
Ø Weather chart
Ø New verse
Ø Five senses
Ø How to directions
Independent Writing
Ø Favorite activity
Ø First names
Ø Counting book
Ø Sentences
Ø List of favorite cookies
Ø Label kitchen items
Ø Labels for a picture
Ø Description
Ø Number book
Ø Captions
Ø Animals
Ø Sign
Ø Questions
Ø Family
Ø Dialogue
Ø Message
Ø Class book
Ø Accordion book
Ø Gift
Ø Write about an animal
Ø Book of facts
Ø Make believe bus
Ø Sound words