Kindergarten
Kindergarten Curriculum
Kindergarten Objectives
SCIENCE- Life Science
- Distinguishes identifiable characteristics and behaviors of fish, snails and worms
- Identifies the certain environmental conditions required by fish, snails and worms to survive
- Knows that different kinds of isopods can be identified by their structure and behavior
- Identifies the certain environmental conditions required by isopods to survive
- Distinguishes the identifiable characteristics of different kinds of fabric
- Understands that fabric is used for many things in our everyday lives
- Understands that fabrics are made by weaving threads together using alternating patterns
- Understands that some fabrics absorb water, while others repel water
- Understands that fabric can be permanently dyed in a wide variety of colors
MATHEMATICS (Abeka)
- Write counts by 1’s forward to 100
- Counts backwards by 1’s from 20
- Counts by 10’s forward to 100
- Names 1-9 as digits
- Reads and writes numbers up to 100
- Reads and writes the number “before” and the number “after” to 100
- Identifies number words to ten
- Tells time by hour and half-hour
- Knows the concepts of an inch
- Identifies patterns
- Identifies common geometric shapes
- Identifies the terms less and more
- Identifies number family concepts
- Knows fractions “whole” and “half”
- Knows smallest to largest number concept
- Identifies more, less, least, most, between, before and after
- Identifies the symbols +, -, and =
- Identifies the terms add, addition, difference, equals, minus, plus, subtract, sum, height, length, longer, shorter, and taller
SOCIAL STUDIES (Abeka)
- Recognizes God made people special
- Understands people grow and change
- Understands man’s five senses
- Understands that all choices have consequences
- Understands families love one another
- Understands each family is special and unique
- Understands families have rules
- Understands families work together
- Understands families have fun together
READING (Pearson)
- Learns forms of literature
- Listens attentively and follows single and multi-step oral directions
- Knows directionality
- Identifies all upper and lower case letters
- Says the alphabet
- Recognizes sight words
- Recognizes and says initial consonant and vowel blends
- Adds an ending consonant to a blend to say a word
- Reads words, phrases and sentences
- Recalls and/or re-reads to answer comprehension questions
- Recognizes punctuation
- Recognizes rhyming word pairs
- Reads orally both individually and in a group setting
- Choral reads as a group
- Reads using expression and pausing appropriately
- Learns role play
LANGUAGE (Abeka)
- Develops left to right eye tracking a
- Traces shapes and letters
- Draws a picture and writes a class related sentence
- Develops eye-hand coordination
- Draws a picture about a story
- Uses capitals at the beginning of sentences
- Uses punctuation at the end of sentences
WRITING
- Holds pencils and crayons properly
- Draws and writes within spatial boundaries
- Accurately traces D’Nealian letters
- Forms D’Nealian letters, especially name with capital and lower case letters
- Holds paper properly
- Copies words and sentences using 3 lines
- LCS faculty members are registered through the Institute for Excellence in Writing. Teaching Wrigint: Structure & Style is a complete syllabus for teaching writing skills to children in grades K-12.
BIBLE (Abeka)
- Recognizes the Bible as the ultimate guide for mankind
- Knows about sin/ Adam and Eve
- Knows God sent His Son to die for our sins
- Memorizes correlated Bible passages
- Knows about Christ’s death and resurrection
- Knows about Satan and that God is stronger
- Knows that God wrote the bible
- Understands that all the Bible is true
- Knows that there is only one God
- Understands and lists the three persons of God
- Understands how to ask for the forgiveness of sin
- Knows that Lucifer became jealous of God and wanted to be as great as He
- Knows that Satan is God’s enemy and the enemy of all Christians