This year will be our first experience with homeschooling kindergarten. I've talked with several folks who want to start schooling their children but this is the grade that they are worried the most about! There are so many foundational lessons taught this year that parents don't want to mess up, but the truth is, your children are going to learn to read, write and do math eventually and no one is going to ask them if they learned it in preschool, kindergarten or first grade! So take a deep breath and know that you can do it!

Reading 

Word Study 

• Recognize letter-sound relationships 
• Recognize grade-appropriate sight words 
• Identify and generate rhyming words 
• Use a reading strategy when confronted with an  unknown word 

Fluency 

• Engage in shared/independent reading of familiar predictable text. 

Comprehension 

• Tell a story using wordless pictures 
• Sequence story events using pictures 
• Identify characters, setting, and events of a story 
• Make predictions in a story and ask appropriate questions 

Writing 

Writes legibly 

• Print correct letter shape, size, spacing, and smoothness 

Written language 

• Express ideas in writing using emergent spelling and known sight words 
• Interpret own writing 

Speaking 

• Speak effectively with appropriate volume 
• Participate in discussions 
• Remain on topic 

Listening 

• Listen effectively by looking at speaker
• Respond to and ask appropriate questions

MATHEMATICS 

Numeration 

• Complete and produce patterns 
• Recognize and print numerals 0-20 
• Count using 1:1 correspondence 
• Count by 2’s to 20 
• Count by 1’s, 5’s and 10’s to 100 
• Identify numbers before and after 0-30 

Operations 

• Solve simple addition and subtraction problems 

Measurement 

• Sort objects using varying attributes 
• Recognize a penny, nickel, dime, & quarter 
• Tell time to the hour 

Geometry 

• Identify shapes

SCIENCE 

• Learn about the five senses 
• Learn about living things 
• Learn features of the night and daytime sky

SOCIAL STUDIES 

• Recognize that every family is unique 
• Distinguish between the four different seasons 
• Determine that the Earth is round and is made of water and land 
• Recognize months, weeks, and days of the year 

PERSONAL SKILLS 

• Color neatly - Knows address 
• Cut properly - Knows phone number 
• Identify left and right - Knows birthday 
• Prints first/last name 

GYM

Physical skills 

• Participate in Jujitsu
• Run and Play outside daily

Cooperation 

• Play cooperatively with others 
• Identify and demonstrate basic safety rules 

ART 

• Identify basic colors, shapes and lines and use them in a composition 
• Use tools and materials appropriately 
• Demonstrate use of fine motor skills 
• Clean up work space 

MUSIC 

• Move and play to a steady beat 
• Distinguish sounds and the way we use our voices 
• Discriminate sensory contrasts – fast/slow, loud/soft, long/short, high/low and same/different. 
• Read pictorial notation for rhythm and pitch 
• Sequence and sing words and actions for songs 
• Identify the sounds of an orchestra