Smyrna Primary Kindergarten

Learning Goals 1st Nine Weeks

These are the standards that will be taught in class .Some standards will be taught throughout the course of the school year. This follows the Rutherford County
curriculum guide for kindergarten.

Reading: Literature and Informational Text

With prompting and support
Retell familiar stories with key details
Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text
Describe the relationship between illustrations and the
story
Identify characters, settings and major events in a
story
Describe the connection between two individuals,
events or ideas in a text
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Actively engage in groups reading activities
Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a
text
Name the author and illustrator of a story and define
the role of each
Recognize different types of texts (storybooks,
poems)
Identify the front cover, back cover and title page of a
book
Reading: Foundational Skills:
Recognize that spoken words are represented by a
specific sequence of letters
Count, produce, blend and segment syllables in spoken
words
Follow words from left to right and top to bottom
Understand that words are separated by spaces in print
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis
skills in decoding words
Recognize and produce rhyming words
Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single syllable
words
Read common high-frequency words by sight
Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and
understanding

Language:

Math:

Capitalize the first word in a sentence and

the pronoun I
Print many upper- and lower-case letters
Write a letter to letters for most consonant
and short vowel sounds
Recognize and name end punctuation
Spell simple words phonetically
Produce and expand complete sentences in
shared language activities
Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs
Understand and use question words

Write numbers from 0 to 10. Represent a

number of objects with a written numeral 0-10
(with 0 representing a count of no objects)
When counting objects, say the number names in
the standard order, pairing each object with one
and only one number name and each number name
with one and only one object.
Understand that the last number name tells the
number of objects counted.
Count to answer how many? questions.
Objects may be arranged in a line or scattered, in
a circle, or in a line).
Count out the number of objects when given a
number from 1-10.
Classify objects into given categories; count the
numbers of objects in each category and sort the
categories by count
Describe objects in the environment using names
of shapes, and describe the relative positions of
these objects using terms such
as above, below, beside, in front of, behind,
and next to. Represent addition and subtraction
with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings1,
sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal
explanations, expressions, or equations

Writing:
Use a combination of drawing, dictating and
writing to tell about a single event in a story
and tell about the events in order
With support from adults, use information
from experiences to answer questions
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and
writing to compose an opinion piece of writing
(My favorite book is)
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and
writing to compose an
informative/explanatory piece of writing(How
to ).
Science:
Observe the world of familiar objects using
tools and senses
Recognize that Many things are made of
parts
Describe an object according to its simple
properties
Collect daily weather data

Social Studies:
Compare family traditions and customs among
different cultures.
Identify and explain how basic human needs of
food shelter clothing and transportation are met.
Identify students school name.
Identify state and national symbols: The Pledge
of Allegiance
Explain the purpose if rules and laws.
Identify days of the week and months of the
year.
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and
writing to narrate a single event or several
related events.