Overview
In kindergarten, academics increase using the Common Core Standards in math, reading and writing. State standards are used as a foundation for learning targets in social studies and science. Religion instruction is derived from the Los Angeles Catholic Archdiocese. Spanish draws from national language standards and is conversation focused. Music, technology, art, and PE are taught weekly and integrated throughout all daily instruction.
Curriculum
Language Arts
Students will:
• make predictions, connections, and retell a story in sequence
• track written text
• create stories with beginning, middle, end, pictures, and words
• know the difference between fiction and non-fiction
• identify rhymes
• recognize same sounds in different words (ex. bat and cat both have at)
• know letters have different sounds
• read high-frequency words (rainbow words)
• write using letters, drawings, and labels
• read left to right and top to bottom
• know the difference between letters and words
• know the difference between print and pictures
• discuss new information, ask questions, express idea, thoughts and feelings
• learn and use new words in context
Math
Students will:
• rote count from 1 to 20 (probably higher)
• count backwards from 10 to 1
• use ordinal numbers
• determine more, less, or the same
• sort groups by size
• recognize basic shapes
• understand over, under, above, below, next to, and between
• know words that apply to day and night
• create patterns by color, size, and shapes
• make predictions and estimations
Science
Students will study:
• the five senses
• alike and different
• use tools to determine physical properties
• seasons
• plants and animals grow and change
• parts of a plant
• living things and their offspring
Social Studies
Students will study:
• how communities work together
• their place in the world
• current events
• cultural roots
• cultural diversity
Religion
Students will study:
• Friends of Jesus
• We talk to God in prayer
• God gave us the world
• God gave us families
• God knows and loves us
• We care for God’s world
• Special Holidays- All Saints Day, Thanksgiving, Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Valentine’s Day, Easter, St. Patrick’s Day, Pentecost
• Saint’s Days throughout the year
• The Church, Mary’s month, The Rosary, Armor of God
• Our Father, Hail Mary and other prayers