Kindergarten Curriculum Overview
 

In kindergarten, within limits of age and maturity, your child will learn to:

• Follow directions
• Work independently
• Develop a positive self image
• Listen attentively
• Work cooperatively with others
• Show respect for others
• Be responsible for classroom materials
• Make friends
• Make decisions independently

Bible – Bible Series - Kindergarten (ACSI 1995)

• Listen to Bible Stories
• Memorize Bible Verses
• Discover how the Bible applies to our own lives
• Develop an attitude of service to others

Reading/Language Arts - A Beka (2008)

• Recognize/print upper and lower case letters
• Identify letter-sound correspondence
• Identify rhyming words
• Read/write one’s own name
• Participate in hearing & retelling selections from a variety of cultures
• Compare/contrast different versions of a story
• Identify the naming words and action words in a spoken sentence
• Write sentences using developing writing skills
• Recognize high frequency words
• Blend sounds into words
• Use technology to create/illustrate stories

Math – Mathematics (Houghton Mifflin 2002)

• Recognize and write numbers
• Describe and extend color, shape, size & position patterns
• Use manipulatives to demonstrate a variety of math concepts
• Count, measure, weigh, and estimate
• Simple addition/subtraction of concrete objects
• Introduce money, time, fractions
• Comparison Skills
- Understand and use words that describe:
• Position
• Size
• Amount
• Distance
• Time
• Length
• Height
• Opposites
• Classification Skills - Sort and classify according to:
  • Size
  • Form
  • Function
  • Other Categories

Problem Solving Strategies

• Identify problems and possible solutions
• Recognize cause and effect
• Draw a picture
• Find a pattern
• Use logical reasoning skills
• Predict outcomes
• Use scientific method (i.e. predicting, testing, observing, and recording results

Science and Health - Science (Harcourt 2002)

• My body Matter Five Senses Energy
• Dental Health Earth Weather Color
• Animals Sound Space Plants

Social Studies - Here We Go: Social Studies (Pearson Education 2008)

• Myself, Families, Friends
• Our neighborhood
• Community workers
• Cultural heritage of United States
• Democratic principles/national symbols/holidays
• Cultural diversity
• Maps/globe
• Economic principles (wants/needs)

Music

• Steady beat in music
• Forms: call and response
• Melody patterns
• Body movement to music
• Singing sacred music
• Rhythm patterns
• Notes (pitch, direction, names)

Physical Education – Dynamic Physical Education for School Children (Allyn & Bacon 1995)

• Movement awareness activities
• Simple games and activities
• Exploratory ball skills
• Simple rhythm activities
• Scooters, jump ropes, and parachute exploration
• Stunts and tumbling skills
• Hopscotch and jumping activities
• Playground apparatus exploration
• Biblical awareness development

Art

• Positive work attitudes Listening skills
• Respect of other’s work Tracing patterns
• Sponge painting
• Primary colors
• Cleaning up after oneself
• Using chalk
• Using clay
• Creative expression
• Fine motor skills: cutting, coloring and pasting
• Using watercolor & finger painting

Library

• Once weekly

Computer

• Once weekly
• The Computer Lab uses the Global Academics curriculum to introduce the students to the basics of using the computer and it's programs and peripherals.