Kindergarten Expectations

 

  LANGUAGE ARTS

 

By the end of Kindergarten, students will be able to:

• Listen for a purpose, focus attention on speaker, and follow 2-3 step directions

• Retell and act out stories and rhymes

• Participate through discussion and questioning by communicating ideas and information clearly

• Demonstrate a basic understanding of book and print awareness

• Demonstrate comprehension of stories read aloud

• Identify syllables and beginning, middle and ending sounds in spoken words

• Produce all sounds associated with individual letters, and begin to produce sounds ass

 

• ociated with multi-letter phonograms

• Produce rhyming words

• Blend sounds to begin to read words and instantly recognize basic high frequency words

• Recognize and write correctly both capital and lowercase letters in the alphabet

• Demonstrate penmanship and fine motor skills when writing to record ideas and convey meaning while using correct spacing

• Write name and other important words correctly

• Read a level C book

 

 

 

MATH

 

By the end of Kindergarten, students will be able to:

• Recognize numerals to 31

• Count objects and describe quantities from 1-20

• Write numerals 1-20

• Rote count by ones to 100

• Skip count by 2's to 20 and by 5's and 10's to 100

• Identify, create and extend patterns

• Describe, identify, compare, and sort shapes and solids (sphere, cube, etc.)

• Describe objects using positional language (over, under, above, below, etc.)

• Use comparative language and describe a sequence of events and ordinal positions (first, second, third)

• Identify half and whole

• Use objects to model addition and subtraction

• Identify coins (penny, nickel, dime, quarter)

• Compare and order objects in terms of their measurement

• Tell time to the hour

• Read a calendar

• Construct and answer questions about graphs

• Use appropriate strategies to solve problems

 

SOCIAL STUDIES

 

By the end of Kindergarten, students will be able to:

• Identify United States and Texas flags

• Identify similarities and differences among people

• Identify customs, cultures and celebrations

• Identify jobs in home, school and community

• Understand the purpose of rules

• Identify and understand Holidays throughout the year

• Identify physical characteristics of places such as landforms, bodies of water, natural resources, and weather

• Use terms to describe location

• Place events in chronological order

 

 

 SCIENCE

 

By the end of Kindergarten, students will be able to:

• Use their five senses and simple tools (such as hand lenses and balances) to make observations and gather information

• Conduct simple investigations

• Ask questions, gather information, and communicate finding from simple investigations

• Demonstrate an awareness about the natural world around them including rocks, soil and water, season and growth, as well as properties and patterns of organisms, objects, and events