Kindergarten
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What Your Child Will Learn in Kindergarten
Reading
- Emphasizing phonics to teach short vowels and consonant sounds
- Logical/chronological sequencing
- Auditory/visual discrimination
- Classifying
- Rhyming
- Reading 20 phonics storybooks
Spelling & Vocabulary
- Identifying word beginnings and endings
- Controlled vocabulary of short vowel words
- Key words
Writing/Composition
- Developing fine motor control
- Option of printing letters, words, and simple sentences
- Use of graphic organizers
Grammar
- Developing oral expression
- Constructing asking/telling sentences
- Capital letters to start sentences and punctuation
Mathematics
Featuring Calvert Math
- Number ideas from 1 to 31
- Patterns, shapes, and understanding data from pictures
- Properties of addition and subtraction
- Problem solving
- Graphing
- Ordering numbers
- Matching sets
- Probability, time concepts
- Fraction concepts
Science
- Seasons
- Five senses
- Space
- Differences among land, air, and water
- Weather
- Plants and Animals
- Natural Resources
- Health
Technology
Application lessons, activities, and online interactive learning tools integrated with curriculum:
- Keyboard and Mouse basics
- Parts of a computer
- Introduction to word processing
- Beginning graphics skills
Poetry/Music
- Enjoying and memorizing poems, rhymes, traditional children’s songs
- Finger plays
Discussion
- Famous people and events (i.e., U.S. Presidents, Martin Luther King, Jr., Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, etc.)
- Where people live, families, communities, and animal habitats
Art
- Painting
- Drawing with crayons and chalk
- Clay
- Craft activities
All art supplies are included!
