Math
First Quarter:
Count groups of objects (up to 10)
Identify simple shapes (square, circle, triangle, rectangle, diamond)
Identify colors
Recognize similarities and differences
Identify sizes (large and small)
Compare and contrast objects in regards to size, shape and color
Identify 3-D shapes (sphere, cone, cylinder, rectangular prism, cube)
Compare 2-D and 3-D shapes
Understand motions of 3-D shapes (slide, roll, stack)
Identify numbers of sizes and corners on shapes
Identify and continue given patterns and pattern rules
Examine shape, size, color and growing patterns
Combine two or more shapes to create new shapes (ex. two squares make a rectangle)
Second Quarter:
Understand positions (under, over, inside, outside, above, below, on, top, middle, bottom)
Distinguish between left and right
One-to-one correspondence in counting objects
Understand the concepts of more and fewer
Make equal sets of objects
Understand ordinals of 1st through 10th
Identify and write numbers 0-10
Count groups of objects (up to 10)
Identify and count using ten frames
Combine two numbers together to make a larger number
Knowledge of phone number and address
Third Quarter:
Understand greater than/less than/equal to concepts
Identify and write numbers 0-31
Count larger groups of objects (up to 31)
Separate numbers into tens and ones (place value)
Count by 10s, 5s and 2s
Make estimations
Count and write tally marks
Explore charts and graphs (bar graphs and pictographs)
Explore dividing objects into equal parts
Divide objects into halves and fourths
Examine patterns in a hundreds chart
Practice counting to 100
Begin exploring simple addition and subtraction concepts
Fourth Quarter:
Review the identification of numbers 0-100
Practice writing numbers 0-100
Explore the addition concepts of parts and sums
Use the addition and subtraction symbols of =, − and +
Add and subtract numbers less than 10
Explore values of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters
Add and subtract small amounts of money
Explore concepts of time (yesterday, today, tomorrow)
Identify the days of the week, months of the year and seasons
Become familiar with the structure of a calendar
Identify, count and write numbers 0-100
Language Arts
First Quarter:
Recognize and write first name
Recognize all upper case and most lower case letters
Identify sounds that letters make
Identify letters that words start with
Identify rhyming words
Begin to identify high-frequency words (the, a, I, and, my)
Represent ideas with both pictures and letters
Identifying the parts of a book
Knowledge of reading from left to right
Identify how many syllables are in a word
Retell a story in the correct sequence of events
Read simple and repetitive text
Practice handwriting skills
Second Quarter:
Recognize and write upper and lower case letters
Identify sounds that all letters make
Practice identifying the long and short sounds vowels make
Begin combining letters and sounds to make words
Identify rhyming words
Distinguish between beginning and ending sounds
Introduce middle sounds
Examine word families (-ad, -ed, -en, -in)
Identify and write more high-frequency words (we, that, said, are, is)
Identify characters and setting in a text
Knowledge of finger spaces between words
Identify punctuation marks (period, question mark, exclamation point)
Identify the parts of a book (cover, back, title page)
Knowledge of what the author and illustrator do
Practice handwriting skills
Third quarter:
Identify color and number words
Identify and write high-frequency words
Practice letter sounds
Distinguish between long and short vowel sounds
Compare and contrast fantasy and reality texts
Use picture clues to make predictions in a text
Combining sounds to write multiple words
Knowledge of capital letters and punctuation marks in sentences
Begin to combine elements to write phrases and short sentences
Reading from a text with emotion, based on punctuation marks present
Practice handwriting skills
Fourth Quarter:
Identify and write high-frequency words, color and number words
Identify all letter sounds
Identify and distinguish between long and short vowel sounds
Combine sounds to make words and phrases
Know and use correct sentence structure (capital letters, punctuation marks, finger spaces)
Form a complete sentence independently
Read from a familiar text, sounding out words and looking for high-frequency words
Identify and write all upper and lower case letters correctly
Identify characters, setting, problem and resolution in a text
Distinguish between fantasy and reality texts
Religion
First Quarter:
Understand who God and Jesus are and why they are so special
Understand that God created all people, animals and objects
Understand that God made light, which gives us night and day
Understand that God made the land we live on
Understand that God gave us water so that we can live
Recognize that saints are special people because they spent their lives loving God
Recite the Guardian Angel prayer and Grace before meals; begin the Hail Mary
Second Quarter:
Understand that the Church has a calendar and celebrates seasons like Ordinary Time, Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter
Understand more about saints and why they are so special to us and to God
Recognize that God wants us to share His love with each other
Discuss and practice some ways we can share God’s love with each other
Realize that God made each one of us and we are all different and special
Understand that God gave us our five senses to discover the world He created for us
Recite the Hail Mary, Guardian Angel prayer, and Grace before meals
Third Quarter:
Identify ways families can share God’s love with each other
Identify ways friends can share God’s love with each other
Explore in depth the seasons of Advent and Christmas
Explore the importance of God choosing Mary to be Jesus’ mother
Discover the special gift God gave to us through His son, Jesus
Learn about Jesus’ life and what the world was like during His time
Recite the Hail Mary, Guardian Angel prayer, Grace and the Glory Be
Begin learning the Our Father prayer
Explore different stories of the Bible
Fourth Quarter:
Understand the significance of Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday
Explore all the things Jesus taught us about God, Himself and our world
Understand that Jesus taught us to pray
Explore the Church community and understand that we are part of it
Explore the sacrament of Baptism and how it forever changes us
Discover the significance of Easter and Jesus’ new life with us
Retell stories from the Bible
Recite the Guardian Angel Prayer, Hail Mary, Glory Be, Grace and Our Father
Science
First Quarter:
Identify the five senses
Use the five senses to describe, compare and contrast objects
Explore with magnifying glasses
Identify objects that help us to see and hear
Describe different kinds of weather daily (sunny, cloudy, rainy, windy, snowy)
Second Quarter:
Explore shadows and colored shadows
Experiment with colors and color mixing
Identify living and nonliving things
Describe what living things need to survive
Identify the parts of a plant
Describe different kinds of weather and make weather predictions
Describe the concept of temperature
Third Quarter:
Talk about animals we have as pets
Compare and contrast animals that fly, swim and walk
Explore animal babies and their parents
Discuss different habitats animals have
Understand that all people and animals grow, change and die in their life cycles
Fourth Quarter:
Explore different ways that objects move
Discuss things that are magnetic and explore with magnets
Compare and contrast objects that sink or float
Examine products that come from the land and those that are man-made
Investigate ways we can help keep the Earth clean
Social Studies
First Quarter:
Describe what a family is
Describe different family members
Identify the ways family members help each other
Identify school helpers
Identify rules at school and rules at home
Identify ways we help each other at school
Recognize the reasons for rules
Second Quarter:
Identify and compare/contrast neighborhoods, towns and communities
Identify community helpers
Use maps to determine locations of places on a small scale
Draw a map to show locations and distances
Examine locations of other continents and countries around the world
Examine different holidays and customs around the world
Third Quarter:
Identify jobs that people have and why they are important
Talk about jobs we want to do when we are adults
Understand that we earn money by doing jobs
Discuss what we spend money on
Discuss and contrast needs and wants
Fourth Quarter:
Examine maps of the USA and the Earth
Talk about the different symbols and legends on maps
Discuss different kinds of terrain on Earth
Explore continents and oceans on maps of the Earth and the USA
Identify patriotic symbols
Explore different states on a US map
Identify Michigan on a US map
The Kindergarten curriculum also includes the following:
45 minutes each of Art, Computers and Gym every week.
30 minutes of Library every week.
45 minutes of Spanish every week.
Music is incorporated into the curriculum through every subject. Children both sing and listen to musical recordings in Math, Language Arts, Religion, Science and Social Studies activities.