Kindergarten

Social Studies: Science

* Meanings of holidays, traditions, and customs * Observation of everyday, familiar
* Understanding and appreciating other cultures things
* Individual's role in family, home, school, and * Common animals and plants
community * Interrelationships of animals and
* Relationship of the individual to the group plants
* Work and jobs * Classification of living things
* Safety rules and symbols * Farm animals
* Basic human needs * Care of pets
* Self-respect and self-awareness * Like and unlike plants
* Awareness of others * Indoor plants
* Location of home and school * The sun: our principal source of
* Diagram of home and school energy
* Weather and seasons
Language Arts * Temperature
* Phonics * Light
* Choral reading * Colors
* Listening to literature, music, poetry * Senses
* Nursery rhymes, fairy tales, fables * Earth, moon, stars, planets
* Social listening * Simple measurement
* Constructing visual images while listening * Beginning experimentation
* Oral communication skills
* Role play Mathematics
* Following and giving directions * Simple counting to 20
* Paraphrasing and summarizing * One-to-one relationship
* Organizing ideas * Concepts of more, less than, same
* Experience stories * Sequence of events
* Relating events and experiences usingcomplete * Correspondence of quantities
sentences * Ordinal-cardinal relationship
* Listening for correct speech habits and word usage * Number-numeral relationship
* Beginning writing process * Recognition of basic sets
* Manuscript handwriting * Meaning of addition and subtraction
* Introduction to number line
Health and Safety * Estimation
* Personal hygiene * Elementary geometry (shapes)
* Good eating habits * Calendar and clock
* Good grooming * Denominations of money
* Care of teeth * Basic problem-solving strategies
* Major body parts * Basic chart and graph concepts
* Physical fitness
* Safety to and from school