Kindergarten Curriculum

Autumn 

Language Arts:

• Upper and lower case letters identification
  
• Letter sounds
  
• Labeling pictures
  
• Beginning sound and ending sounds
• Beginning to write short sentences
• Best guess spelling
• Writer's Workshop launch, small moment stories
• One-to-one matching while reading (point to words)
• Sight Words
• Guided reading

Math:

• Count to 20
• Identify and write numbers to 10
• Patterning
• 2D shapes
• Become familiar with math manipulatives
• Visual discrimination (ex., domino matching)

Science:

• 5 Senses
• Trees
• Leaves

Winter

Language Arts:

• Small moment stories
• Include spaces between words
• Add feelings words to writing
• Add speech bubbles to writing
• Beginning, middle, and ending sounds
• Blend sounds together to make words
• Segment words
• Digraphs and blends
• Sound-a-bet books
• Best guess spelling
• Write CVC words
• Guided reading

Math:

• Count to 100
• Identify and write numbers to 20
• Beginning addition to 5
• Ten frames
• Tally marks
• Matching numbers to ten frames
• 3D Shapes
• Comparing weight and length

Science:

• Wood and paper
• Seasons
• Weather

Spring

Language Arts:

• Small moment stories
• All about stories
• How to Books
• Author study (Mo Willems and Jane O'Connor)
• Add interesting details to words and pictures
• Use interesting vocabulary
• Include ending punctuation
• Begin a sentence with an uppercase letter
• Spell sight words correctly 
• Read the 45 kindergarten sight words
• Digraphs and blends

Math:

• Count to 100
• Identify and write numbers to 30
• Fluent addition to 5
• Fluent subtraction to 5
• Use tools and strategies to help solve more complex addition and subtraction equations
• Ten frames
• Compare and contrast 3D and 2D shapes
• Compare length and weight
• Concepts of time

Science:

• Animals 2X2 (goldfish, snails, worms)
• Plants