Learning Expectations
Kindergarten

Language Arts

Reading :

• Understands and uses concepts of print while reading
• Front and back of book
• Print contains a message
• Print begins at the top left
• Print reads from left to right
• Return sweep when line of text ends
• Left page of print before right
• Purpose of a period and question mark
• Difference between a letter and word
• Difference between capital letters and lower case letters
• Knows letter-sound relationships
• Uses a variety of decoding strategies (picture clues and letter-sounds)
• Uses a variety of comprehension strategies (for example: making predictions, picture clues, story sequence for books read out loud)
• Demonstrates phonemic awareness
• Identifies story elements of books read aloud (character, setting, and main events)
• Makes text to text, text to self, and text to world connections (Instructional Only)
• Understands cause and effect (Instructional Only)

Writing:

• Dictates a story or report on a single topic
• Writes using letter-sound relationships
• Uses capitalization correctly (beginning of names)
• Guided Instruction in:
• Uses pre-writing strategies
• Writing in complete sentences
• Using punctuation correctly (periods, question marks, exclamation marks)
• Spelling high frequency words
• Using a strategy to spell unfamiliar words
• Applying the traits of idea and word choice

Speaking & Listening:

• Speaks clearly to a group
• Follows basic directions
• Comprehends oral communication
• Uses active listening behaviors
• Participates effectively in discussions

Mathematics

Problem Solving:

• Uses a variety of problem solving strategies for real world problems and situations
• Specifically using physical objects and beginning to use pictures and numbers
• Explains mathematical thinking in a variety of ways (orally and with pictures, words, and numbers)

Number Operations and Relationships:

• Understands relationships between numbers and sets
• Counting sets to 25, counting numbers to 100, writing numbers and making sets of objects
• Adds whole numbers (using physical objects)
• Subtract whole numbers (using physical objects)
• Guided Instruction in:
• Understanding place value (tens and ones)
• Estimating sets of objects
• Selecting appropriate operation in problem solving situations

Geometry:

• Understands and recognizes two- and three-dimensional figures in the real world
• Specifically square, circle, oval, rectangle, triangle, and diamond/rhombus
• Understands the concepts of spatial sense
• Specifically above, below, between, on, in, out, and next

Measurement:

• Uses the process for measuring length, height, and width (with non-standard units)
• Reads time (to the half hour – digital and analog)
• Counts money (pennies, dimes)

Statistics and Probability:

• Collects, organizes and displays data in bar and pictographs during whole class lesson
• Reads and interprets data from bar graphs and pictographs

Algebraic Relationships:

• Creates and extends simple patterns and explains the relationship within them

Science

Seasons:

• Knows the seasons of the year and their effect on the earth

Physical Properties:

• Knows the physical properties of objects
• Size, color, shape, texture, temperature (hot/cold), and weight (heavy/light/heavier/lighter)

Senses:

• Identifies and uses appropriate senses during scientific investigations

Plants and Animals:

• Knows organism’s basic needs for survival
• Knows that organisms resemble their parents
• Knows the relationships between living and non-living things
• Knows the difference between the living and non-living things

Hygiene and Safety:

• Knows the elements of proper hygiene and safety
• Asks questions to gather information for science-related topics
• Uses simple science equipment safely and effectively

Science Investigations:

• Guided instruction in the scientific method ( P roblem – H ypothesis - E xperiment - O bservation - C onclusion)
• Uses simple science equipment safely and effectively
• Communicates observations and conclusions from scientific investigation

 Social Studies

Social Studies Learning Skills:

• Locates places and features on a variety of maps and globes (Instructional Only)
• Gather information from a variety of sources (Instructional Only)

Citizenship:

• Understands individual responsibilities with respect to family and peers
• Understands the meaning of responsibility
• Knows rules of behavior
• Knows American symbols
• Knows how people can use compromise to settle disagreements

Self:

• Knows how people are alike and different
• Knows how people learn about each other Knows the factors that influence individual learning (for examples, behaviors of good learners)

Family:

• Knows how families are alike and different
• Knows how personal economic decision affect the lives of others

Transportation:

• Knows how changes in transportation have affected people

Community Workers:

• Knows ways people help their local community
• Understands the lives of ordinary and extraordinary people in relationship to historical events