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Kindergarten

Reading Writing
EALR #1 - Skills and Strategies EALR #1 - Writes Clearly and Effectively

  • Directionality, left to right, top to bottom

  • Points to each word read

  • Recognizes alphabet in upper and lower case

  • Predicts and checks using:

- Pictures

- Sentence and story clues

- Letter sounds and sequences

  • Beginning sight vocabulary

  • Identifies punctuation marks

  • Participates in group writing

  • Writes letters of the alphabet

  • Writes name and a few words

  • Writes labels for drawings

  • Dictates sentences

  • Uses letter sounds to predict spelling
EALR #2 - Comprehension EALR #2 - Forms and Purposes

  • Previews books

  • Relates story to own experience

  • Retells simple story

  • Understands simple labels, charts, and directions

  • Begins to make inferences

  • Word lists

  • Drawings with labels

  • Group stories/poems/sentences

  • Group logs/journals

  • Own name
EALR #3 - Variety of Purposes EALR #3 - Uses the Writing Process

  • Participates in reading stories, poems, and songs

  • Explores new books

  • Uses both fiction and nonfiction books

  • Pre-writing

  • Drafting

  • Revising

  • Editing

  • Publishing
EALR #4 - Sets Goals and Evaluates Progress EALR #4 - Analyzes and Evaluates

  • Identifies strengths, weaknesses, and interests

  • Reads for pleasure and information

  • Sets and meets reading goals

  • Uses and explains strategies to overcome difficulties

  • Expresses reasons for recommending books

  • Shares responses to reading

  • Self-assessments

  • Responds to drawings of others with compliments and questions

  • Writing portfolios

 

Kindergarten

Communications Mathematics
EALR #1 - Listens and Observes EALR #1 - Applies Basic Skills

  • Sits quietly while others are talking

  • Attends to stories, instructions, and others' ideas

  • Computation

- Counts past 100

- Counts sets of objects

- Uses objects to show addition and subtraction to ten

  • Measurement

- Measures to the inch

- Identifies pennies, nickels, and dimes

  • Geometry

- Names shapes: circle, square, triangle, rectangle

- Sorts geometric shapes

  • Probability and Statistics

- Begins to use tallying as a means of counting

  • Algebra

- Forms three object patterns

- Identifies missing numbers in sequences
EALR #2 - Speaks Clearly and Effectively EALR #2 - Solves Problems

  • Uses eye contact

  • Speaks clearly

  • Stays on topic

  • Uses visuals

  • Searches for patterns

  • Explores strategies
EALR #3 - Works with Others EALR #3 - Reasons Mathematically

  • Listens

  • Encourages

  • Asks questions

  • Contributes to the group

  • Compares and contrasts information

  • Makes estimates
EALR #4 - Analyzes and Evaluates EALR #4 - Communicates Mathematical

  • Self reflects

  • Responds to encouragement and praise

  • Offers and accepts feedback

  • Uses concrete and pictorial models to demonstrate understanding
EALR #5 - Connects Mathematics to Other Subjects and Life

  • Birthday Graph

  • Telephone numbers

Kindergarten

Health & Fitness
EALR #1 – Active Life

  • Physical Skill Development

  • Rules and Safety Procedures
EALR #2 – Healthy Life

  • Handwashing
EALR #3 – Choices Impact Health

  • Group Social Skills
EALR #4 – Healthy Life Goals

  • Goal Setting

Kindergarten

Integrated Units

  • Science

  • Social Studies

  • The Arts

  • Reading

  • Writing

  • Communications
Unit 1: Communities

  • Self, Family, Classroom, Neighborhood

  • Senses

  • Rhyme

  • Folk Tales

  • Observing

Community Contributor

Self-Directed Learner
Unit 2: Our World

  • Communities Around the World

  • Mattter

  • Magnets

  • Rhyme

  • Fairy Tales

  • Seven Continents

  • Music Around the World

Effective Communicator

Collaborative Worker
Unit 3: The Environment

  • Seasons and Weather

  • Plants and Animals

  • Life Cycles

  • Goal Setting

Complex Thinker

Quality Producer

 

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