Reading/Speaking/Listening

• Use memory to retell a story

• Use reading strategies for word recognition and comprehension

• Identify and match beginning and ending consonant letter sounds

• Apply background knowledge to understand literature

• Speak on topic and in complete sentences during class discussions

• Recognize rhyming words

• Recognize and identify upper and lower case letters

• Blend vowel/consonant sounds orally to make words or syllables

• Read kindergarten sight words

• Demonstrate directionality of print

• Recall a story sequence and predict the outcome

• Analyze a story with questions and comments

• Read independently at appropriate level

• Write a simple sentence

• Use a drawing to complement written work

• Spell high frequency words correctly in context

• Understand proper usage of upper and lowercase letters

• Demonstrate awareness of end punctuation

• Write first and last names using upper/lower case letters

• Compose a short story with a beginning, middle, and end

• Grips writing tools correctly

• Trace on a line

• Cut on a line

• Appreciate cultural differences

• Understand the role of community members

• Exhibit respect through cooperative and collaborative work

• Explain the difference between wants and needs

• Define ways to be a friend

• Explain the necessity of rules

• Develop the concept of geography through maps and globes

• Classify animals by observable characteristics

• Use senses to make observations

• Summarize data gained through careful observations

• Observe physical properties of objects

• Classify objects by observable properties

• Explore earth, life and physical sciences

• Use manipulatives to develop number sense including one-to-one correspondence

• Count and read numbers to 100 in random order

• Write numbers to 100

• Count to 100 by 1’s and 10’s

• Skip count by 2’s and 5’s

• Group objects by size, shape, and color

• Recognize and continue a simple pattern

• Recognize that a graph is a way to show information

• Solve simple addition and subtraction equations

• Estimate and problem solve using everyday situations

• Demonstrate an understanding of number stories using manipulatives

• Create a number sentence to demonstrate the understanding of a story problem

• Tell time to the hour

• Recognize basic 2 and 3 dimensional geometric shapes

• Identify basic safety practices

• Correlate good hygiene and nutrition with a healthy lifestyle

• Demonstrate making good choices

• Identify good and bad consequences of choices they make

• Identify characteristics of a responsible and respectful student

• Perform basic loco-motor movements of walk, run, gallop, jump, hop and skip

• Move safely among other students

• Perform basic manipulative and non-manipulative skills

• Perform skills alone and with a group

• Recognize a variety of art terms using the word wall.

• Recognize Rembrandt, O’Keefe, Oldenburg, Martinez, Picasso, Mondrian, Pollack, Monet, Cassatt and their works

• Recognize art from the African culture and Cubism movement

• Use a variety of media to create 2-D and 3-D art work.

• Review parts of a book

• Recognize the difference between author/illustrator

• Begin story sequencing

• Begin to learn the difference between fiction/non-fiction

• Complete a mini research project together as a class

• Accept responsibility for behavior

• Begin and stay on task

• Complete a task in a reasonable amount of time

• Follow simple, three-step oral directions

• Play with 4-5 children fairly in cooperative play

• Respect others and their property

• Demonstrate problem solving skills

• Demonstrate more consistent independent behavior

• Develop the skills of being responsible, sharing, helping and caring

• Seek help when needed

• Define responsibility

• Share attention with others

• Identify the roles and responsibilities of the school counselor

• List and demonstrate the rules for class discussions

• List the jobs parents have and jobs seen at school

• Discuss what to do if a stranger is bothering them

• Describe how people work together to achieve a goal

• Express their needs, wants, and feelings in healthy and appropriate ways

• Show appreciation to others

• List what to do if someone is abusing them

• Show what to do when they are involved in a conflict

• Identify the appropriate persons from whom a child can safely take medicine

• Identify feelings and act on them appropriately

• Demonstrate singing on pitch

• Demonstrate a steady beat

• Accomplish echo singing

• Distinguish between high/low, fast/slow, loud/soft, up/down, long/short

• Recognize vocal sounds we can make ourselves

• Become familiar with call and response songs

• Understand what a computer is and parts of computer

• Move a mouse accurately

• Locate enter, delete/backspace, space bar, shift keys on a keyboard

• Log on and off computer

• Use components of a computer system, related vocabulary and grade appropriate software.