Kindergarten Curriculum

Students in Kindergarten will learn to master the following skills:

LANGUAGE ARTS / READING READINESS

• Print Concepts
  • Holding book correctly
  • Reading from left to right
  • Identify parts of a book
  • Demonstrate one to one correlation between words
  • Put words in ABC order
  • Distinguish between upper and lowercase letters
  • Recognize capitalization and ending punctuation in sentences
• Phonemic Awareness
  • Generate a series of rhyming words
  • Produce rhyming words
  • Distinguish between beginning, middle, and ending sounds and between long and short vowel sounds
  • Blend three or more sounds into words
  • Blend 2-5 sounds into words
  • Break 2-5 syllable words into individual sounds
• Phonics
  • Say the sounds that match each letter
  • Recognize new words when created by changing letters
  • Use letters, blends, vowels, diagraphs and word endings to read words
  • Read high frequency words
• Vocabulary
  • Sort and classify common words into categories
  • Describe familiar objects and events
  • Color recognition
  • Identifying opposites
  • Spatial relationships
  • Using position words
• Fluency
  • Read grade level text (simple sentences) with 90% accuracy while sounding like natural speech
• Comprehension
  • Make predictions
  • Read along and use predictable text to gain meaning
  • Identify characters, setting, fact or fiction and main idea
  • Compare stories
  • Beginning to understand cause and effect
  • Make text to self connections
  • Create meaningful dialogue about stories

WRITING

• Journal writing
• Observational Writing (Journals)
• Research (gather information and write down concepts)
• Letter Writing (Communicative Writing)
• Writing Process (Prewriting, editing, publishing)
• Six traits of writing (conventions, voice, ideas, sentence fluency, word choice, organization)

MATHEMATICS

• Pre-Number Concepts
  • Same, different
  • Organizing objects
  • Patterns
  • Logical order
  • One-to-one matching
  • More, less, equal
• Positioning
  • Over, under, between
  • Top, bottom, in, on
  • Inside, outside
  • First, next, last
  • Left, right
  • Before, after
• Geometry
  • Points, corners, rounded/straight paths
  • Open/closed paths
  • Above, below
  • One-half, one-quarter, one-third
  • Large, larger, largest
  • Small, smaller, smallest
  • Circle, triangle, rectangle, square, diamond, oval, hexagon
• Sets
  • Set recognition
  • Set members
  • Set comparison
  • More/fewer members
  • Most/fewest members
  • Combining sets (+)
  • Simple subtraction
• Joining and Separating Sets
  • Rearranging sets
  • Joining sets (+)
  • Separating sets in subsets
  • Removing subsets from sets (-)
• Numeration
  • Recognizing numbers
  • Count past 100
  • Number formation
  • Identifying numbers out of sequence
  • Counting from given number

ARTS AND CRAFTS

• Cutting/gluing
• Coloring with crayons, chalk, pencil
• Tearing/collage and paper craft
• Print making
• String/yarn art
• Painting
• Rubbings
• Clay and Ceramics
• Weaving
• Collages
• Learning primary/secondary colors
• Dioramas, murals

SCIENCE AND HEALTH

• Human Body Systems
• Food Pyramid
• Dental health
• The five senses
• Safety
• Plants; seeds, trees, leaves, fruit, flowers, products
• Animals; domestic and wild
• Weather (temperature, degrees, clothing)
• Birds
• Insects; ant and butterfly life cycles
• Dinosaurs
• Seasons
• The Ocean
• Vehicles
• The sky; stars, moon, sun, planet

SOCIAL STUDIES

• The family
• The neighborhood
• Community helpers, careers
• Winter Celebrations and holidays
• Map study
• Arizona, the desert
• Egypt
• U.S. Elections
• Pilgrims and native Americans

MUSIC

• Singing
• Rhythm
• Movement
• Listening to tapes
• Identifying instruments

JUDAIC CURRICULUM

• Jewish holidays: music, singing, arts and crafts, stories, discussion, food (cooking and baking)
• Character traits
• Concepts of mitzvoth, tzedakah
• Israel
• Hebrew vocabulary
• Synagogue accouterments
• History
• Blessings
• The Sabbath