Kindergarten Scope and Sequence

Kindergarten Curriculum Guide

Social Studies * Meanings of holidays, traditions, and customs * Understanding and appreciating other cultures * Individual's role in family, home, school, and community * Relationship of the individual to the group * Work and jobs * Safety rules and symbols * Basic human needs * Self-respect and self-awareness * Awareness of others * Location of home and school * Diagram of home and school Science * Observation of everyday, familiar things * Common animals and plants * Interrelationships of animals and plants * Classification of living things * Farm animals * Care of pets * Like and unlike plants * Indoor plants * The sun: our principal source of energy * Weather and seasons * Temperature * Light * Colors * Senses * Earth, moon, stars, planets * Simple measurement * Beginning experimentation Language Arts * Phonics * Choral reading * Listening to literature, music, poetry * Nursery rhymes, fairy tales, fables * Social listening * Constructing visual images while listening * Oral communication skills * Role play * Following and giving directions * Paraphrasing and summarizing * Organizing ideas * Experience stories * Relating events and experiences using complete sentences * Listening for correct speech habits and word usage * Beginning writing process * Manuscript handwriting Health and Safety * Personal hygiene * Good eating habits * Good grooming * Care of teeth * Major body parts * Physical fitness * Safety to and from school Mathematics * Simple counting to 20 * One-to-one relationship * Concepts of more, less than, same * Sequence of events * Correspondence of quantities * Ordinal-cardinal relationship * Number-numeral relationship * Recognition of basic sets * Meaning of addition and subtraction * Introduction to number line * Estimation * Elementary geometry (shapes) * Calendar and clock * Denominations of money * Basic problem-solving strategies * Basic chart and graph concepts