First Quarter Objectives LANGUAGE ARTS *Print many upper and lowercase letters. *Sort common objects into categories, *Identify real-life connections between words and their use. *Begin to understand concepts of print. (Left-to-right directionality, title, author, concept of a word) *Recognize and produce rhyming words. *Demonstrate knowledge of one-to-one letter sound correspondence by producing the primary sound for each consonant. *Actively engage in group reading activities. *Recognize common types of texts. *Describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear. *Participate in discussions with partners about kindergarten topics and texts. *Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood. *Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly. *Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate an event.
MATHEMATICS *Rote count to 20. *Count forward to 10 from any given number. *Write the numbers 1-10. *Count objects to 10 using one-to-one correspondence. *Correctly count out objects when given a number 1-20. *Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than or equal to the number of objects in another group.
Second Quarter Objectives LANGUAGE ARTS *Understand and use question words when writing and speaking (who, what, when, where, why how). *Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities. *Recognize and name end punctuation (period, question mark, exclamation point). *Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately. (Ex: Duck is a bird and learning the verb “to duck”.) *Use the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (_ed, _s, _ful, _less, re_, un_) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word. *Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites. *Understand that words are separated by spaces in print. *Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet. *Count, pronounce, blend and segment syllables in spoken words. *Isolate and blend the initial, medial vowel and final sounds in consonant-vowel-consonant words. (cat, pig, sit, mop…) *With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. *With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. *With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text. *With prompting and support, identify characters, setting, and major events in a story. *Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings and ideas clearly. *Use a combination of drawing, dictating and writing to compose opinion pieces. *Use a combination of drawing, dictating and writing to tell about an event. *With guidance and support, add details to writing. *With guidance and support, recall information from experiences to answer a question.
MATH *Rote count to 40. *Count to 100 by tens. *Count forward to 15 from any given number. *Write the numerals 1-15. *Count objects to 15 using one-to-one correspondence, *Correctly count out objects when given a number 1-20. *Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than or equal to the number of objects in another group. *Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals. *Compose and decompose numbers 11-15 into tens and ones. *Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientation and size. *Identify shapes as two-dimensional (lying in a plane, “flat”) or three-dimensional “solid”). *Compare two- and three- dimensional shapes by naming their likenesses and differences. *Build and draw two- and three- dimensional shapes.
3rd Quarter Objectives for Kindergarten
LANGUAGE ARTS *Retell familiar stories…Identify the main topic, key details, characters, and setting *Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas or pieces of information in a text. *Name the author and illustrator of a text and describe the role of each. *Describe the relationship between the illustrations and the text in which they appear. *Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text. *Identify the similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic. *Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial and final sounds in CVC (consonant/vowel/consonant) words. (hat, pig, mop, etc.) *Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings for the five major vowels. *Read common high frequency words by sight. *Read emergent reader texts with purpose and understanding. *Use a combination of drawing and writing to compose an opinion piece about a book they have heard or read. *Add details to writing by responding to questions and suggestions from adults and peers. *Participate in shared research and writing projects. *Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. *Continue conversations with partners about kindergarten topics and texts. *Confirm understanding of a text read aloud by asking and answering questions about key details. *Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/….(dog, dogs; wish, wishes). *Use correct capitalization and punctuation when writing. *Write a letter for each corresponding consonant and short vowel sound. *With guidance and support, explore word relationships and word meanings.
MATHEMATICS *Rote count to 70. Count to 100 by tens. *Understand positional words such as above, below, in front of, behind, and next to. *Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size (squares, circles, rectangles, triangles, hexagons, cones, cylinders, cubes and spheres). *Identify shapes as two-dimensional (lying in a plane, “flat”) or three dimensional (“solid”). *Build and draw shapes. *Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes. (Connect two triangles to make a rectangle.) *Solve addition and subtraction problems within 10 by using drawings or objects. *Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way by using drawings or objects. *For any number from 1 to 9, find the missing to make 10 when added to the given number. *Fluently add and subtract within five.
Quarter Four Objectives for Kindergarten
LANGUAGE ARTS *Use the most frequently occurring prepositions when writing or speaking. (to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with) *Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of letter-sound relationships. *Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites. *Act out the meanings of similar verbs. *Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. *Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel sound, and final sounds in CVC (consonant/vowel/consonant) words. *Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings for the five major vowels. *Read common high frequency words by sight. *Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ. *Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. *Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text. *Describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear. *Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text. *Identify basic similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic. *Identify characters, setting, and major events in a story. *Recognize common types of texts (storybooks, poems…) *Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories. *Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood. *Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and when asked, provide additional details. *Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly. *Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic. *Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened. *Participate in shared research and writing projects. *Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
MATH
*Count to 100 by ones and tens. *Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (ex. claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. *Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. *Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (5=2+3 or 5=1+4). *For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. *Fluently add and subtract within 5. *Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length and weight. Describe several measurable attributes of a single object. *Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has “more of/less of” the attribute, and describe the difference. (Ex. Compare the heights of two children and describe one child as taller/shorter.) *Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count.