Kindergarten

OBJECTIVES FOR KINDERGARTEN

Religion

  1. Students will learn of God’s love for them through two Bible Stories per week.
  2. Students will memorize simple songs to praise God.
  3. Students will memorize 1 Bible passage per week during second semester.
  4. Students will memorize the Lord’s Prayer.

Language Arts

  1. Students will learn to identify all the letters of the alphabet, both upper and lower case.
  2. Students will learn to organize the alphabet in proper sequence.
  3. Students will learn to print the letters of the alphabet, both upper and lower case.
  4. Students will learn to print their first and last names.
  5. Students will learn to differentiate among consonant letter sounds.
  6. Students will associate sounds with the 18 consonant letters.
  7. Students will match letters with beginning sounds.
  8. Students will learn to identify words by using consonant sounds and sentence context.
  9. Students will learn at least 30 sight words.
  10. Students will read simple books.
  11. Students will learn to spell words phonetically.
  12. Students will learn to print words.
  13. Students will learn to copy sentences.
  14. Students will learn to print their own simple sentences.
  15. Students will learn to pick out rhyming words.
  16. Students will learn to tell stories in correct sequence.
  17. Students will learn to differentiate fact and fiction.

Math

  1. Students will classify objects according to size, shape, and color.
  2. Students will learn to continue patterns.
  3. Students will learn to read and make simple graphs.
  4. Students will learn to compare weights, lengths, and sizes.
  5. Students will learn to identify pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, and their values.
  6. Students will identify equal parts.
  7. Students will identify halves and thirds.
  8. Students will join sets.
  9. Students will identify “+” and print addition sentences.
  10. Students will separate sets.
  11. Student will identify “-” and print subtraction sentences.
  12. Students will count to 100.
  13. Students will learn to identify numbers to 100.
  14. Students will learn to print numbers to 60.
  15. Students will learn to tell time to the hour.
  16. Students will learn the days of the week.
  17. Students will learn to read a calendar.

Science

  1. Students will learn various parts of the body and their functions: heart, lungs, brain, bones, and muscles.
  2. Students will learn the five senses and how they help us find out about our world.
  3. Students will learn about what makes weather: temperature, pressure, movement, and precipitation.
  4. Students will learn how the four seasons differ from each other.
  5. Students will learn to classify living and non-living things.
  6. Students will learn to classify animals as plant or meat eaters.
  7. Students will learn how we use animals.
  8. Students will learn that plants have root, stems, leaves, flowers, and seeds.
  9. Students will learn the functions of the different parts of the plants.
  10. Students will plant different seeds and watch the plants grow.

Physical Education

  1. Students will strengthen their bodies by running and doing various exercises.
  2. Students will learn to skip and to gallop.
  3. Students will learn to throw a ball overhand and underhand.
  4. Students will learn to catch balls.
  5. Students will learn to pass balls.
  6. Students will learn to kick balls.
  7. Students will learn to do a standing broad jump and a long jump.
  8. Students will learn to run relays.
  9. Students will learn several games.

Art

  1. Students will learn the primary colors.
  2. Students will learn the secondary colors and how to make them.
  3. Students will make projects with crayons, chalk, markers, and paints.
  4. Students will make projects using tissue paper, construction paper, and drawing paper.
  5. Students will make projects by cutting paper and gluing shapes together.
  6. Students will make projects by drawing.
  7. Students will make projects using torn paper.
  8. Students will make projects using cotton balls, seeds, sticks, etc.

Music

  1. Students will learn religious and seasonal songs.
  2. Students will learn to play rhythm instruments.
  3. Students will learn that sounds can go up and down.
  4. Students will learn that rhythms can be fast or slow.
  5. Students will learn to move to music.