KINDERGARTEN AT A GLANCE

Hampton School District

Kindergarten at a Glance


 

Language Arts

  • Writing

○Learn the routines for Writer’s Workshop.

○Practice foundational writing skills, including drawing, telling, and beginning to write about true experiences.

○Include rich color and details in illustrations.

○Focus on informational writing, such as “How To” books and “All About” books

○Progress to writing one or more sentences to support their picture and stay on topic

○Practice using foundational writing skills; such as punctuation, upper case letters at the beginning of a sentence, and spaces between words.

○Participate in narrative, informational, opinion and persuasive forms of writing

○Create text by using many strategies and resources in the classroom such as word walls, anchor charts, and letter/sound/symbol supports

○Share their writing and respond to questions and comments from peers

  • Reading

○Learn the routines for Reader’s Workshop.

○Are exposed to fiction and nonfiction and discuss differences.

○Identify story elements: characters, setting, beginning, middle, and end.

○Make predictions, match their voice to the print and use picture clues.

○Work with letter sounds and words with a mix of high-frequency words (word wall words), rhyming words, and simple consonant-vowel-consonant words

○Apply reading strategies

○Retell familiar stories with more details

○Continue to work with letter sounds and words with a mix of high-frequency words (word wall words), rhyming words, simple consonant-vowel-consonant words, long vowel patterns, and blends.

○Develop beginning reading fluency (vs. reading word for word)

Math 

●Develop number sense through hands on experiences.

●Focus on 2D and 3D shapes and their attributes.

●Practice reading, writing, and ordering numerals.

●Count by ones in sequence and learned strategies for counting sets of objects.

●Work on adding and subtracting 0 & 1 to any number (+1, -1, +0, -0)

●Build understanding that teen numbers are made of a group of ten and some ones

●Practice accurate one to one counting

●Understand that a given group of objects is the same amount regardless of the arrangement

●Continue work on becoming fluent in addition and subtraction through 5

●Practice missing addends and breaking apart a number (0-10) in more than one way

●Develop subtraction concepts and skills through a variety of strategies such as games, manipulatives, ten frames, and pictures

●Build understanding that two-digit numbers are made of a group of ten and some ones

●Continue to practice numeral formation

Science                                      

  • Life Science

  • Earth Science

  • Physical Science

Social Studies

Civics

●Explain the need for and purposes of rules in various settings inside and outside of school

●Identify and explain how rules function in public (classroom and school) settings.

●Describe roles and responsibilities of people in authority.

●Explain how all people, no just official leaders, play important roles in a community.

●Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions while responding attentively to others when addressing ideas and making decisions as a group.

 

Geography

●Use maps, globes, and other simple geographic models to identify cultural and environmental characteristics of places.

●Use maps, graphs, photographs, and other representations to describe places and the relationships and interactions that shape them.

●Construct maps, graphs, and other representations of familiar places.

●Explain how weather, climate, and other environmental characteristics affect people’s lives in a place or region.

 

 

Supporting Learning at Home

Read nightly with your child and talk about books.