Kindergarten Typical Course of Study


Social Studies

·        Meanings of holidays, traditions, and customs

·        Understanding and appreciating other cultures

·        Individual's role in family, home, school, and community

·        Relationship of the individual to the group

·        Work and jobs

·        Safety rules and symbols

·        Basic human needs

·        Self-respect and self-awareness

·        Awareness of others

·        Location of home and school

·        Diagram of home and school

 

Science

·        Observation of everyday, familiar things

·        Common animals and plants

·        Interrelationships of animals and plants

·        Classification of living things

·        Farm animals

·        Care of pets

·        Like and unlike plants

·        Indoor plants

·        The sun: our principal source of energy

·        Weather and seasons

·        Temperature

·        Light

·        Colors

·        Senses

·        Earth, moon, stars, planets

·        Simple measurement

·        Beginning experimentation


Language Arts

·        Phonics

·        Choral reading

·        Listening to literature, music, poetry

·        Nursery rhymes, fairy tales, fables

·        Social listening

·        Constructing visual images while listening

·        Oral communication skills

·        Role play

·        Following and giving directions

·        Paraphrasing and summarizing

·        Organizing ideas

·        Experience stories

·        Relating events and experiences using complete sentences

·        Listening for correct speech habits and word usage

·        Beginning writing process

·        Manuscript handwriting

 

Health and Safety

·        Personal hygiene

·        Good eating habits

·        Good grooming

·        Care of teeth

·        Major body parts

·        Physical fitness

·        Safety to and from school

 

 

Mathematics

·        Simple counting to 20

·        One-to-one relationship

·        Concepts of more, less than, same

·        Sequence of events

·        Correspondence of quantities

·        Ordinal-cardinal relationship

·        Number-numeral relationship

·        Recognition of basic sets

·        Meaning of addition and subtraction

·        Introduction to number line

·        Estimation

·        Elementary geometry (shapes)

·        Calendar and clock

·        Denominations of money

·        Basic problem-solving strategies

·        Basic chart and graph concepts