Kindergarten Curriculum
Reading- Alphabet - recognizing and matching upper and lower case letters
- Sign language of all alphabet letters
- Beginning sounds
- Sight words and beginning vocabulary - about 80 words Pre-decodable books - one a week
- Making up sentences with capital letter and punctuation
- Classification and grouping
- Rhyming (teach nursery rhymes to your child; it will help in school)
- Opposites
- Sequencing of pictures and stories
- Learning colors and reading color words
- Speaking and answering in complete sentences
- Practice printing of letters, numbers, and first and last name, using the D'Nealian method
- Writing using both capital and lower-case letters
- Realism vs. fantasy
- Nouns and verbs
- Position words
- Vowels
- Comprehension
- Beginning and ending sounds
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Math- Recognizing numbers 1-30 and matching them with corresponding pictures
- Sorting and classifying
- Counting to 100
- Shapes - plane and solid
- Patterning
- Place Value
- Ordinal numbers
- Concepts of: as many as, more than, less than
- Concept of adding and subtracting - that they are joining and separating actions
- Beginning to discover the concept of fractions, money, measurement and time
ReligionSpecialists- Music - twice a week - songs for Mass and the Christmas Program
- Physical Education- twice a week- recess games, and fine and large motor skills
- Computer - once a week - matching, patterning, letters, sounds and words - many fun games that help them learn
- Science - twice a week - hands on experiments, the world, five senses and planets
- Spanish - twice a week - numbers, colors, animals, greetings, feelings
Kindergarten Also Includes- Social Studies Thematic units- seasons, holidays, animals, food unit, etc.
- Learning stations - table activities, dots on all shelf items so they are able todistinguish between math and reading
- Playtime - social growth and development, time to work on problem solving and getting along with their peers
Skills to Work on at Home:- Please practice printing name correctly
- Learn name, address, and phone number for safety reasons
- Learn nursery rhymes, colors, counting
- Practice the alphabet
- Work on taking care of self needs - bathroom, zipping, etc. - to be self-sufficient
- Work with students to tie or Velcro their shoes
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