Kindergarten

Reading/Language Arts

*Read Pre-Primer Sight Words

*Identify story elements: Character and Author’s Purpose

*Draw/dictate/write to state an opinion

*Produce rhyming words                   *Short-Vowel Words

*Identify beginning sound     *Write first and last name correctly

*Identify letter sounds (uppercase and lowercase)

         Mm, Tt, Aa, Ss, Pp, Cc, Ii, Bb, Nn, Rr, Dd, Kk

*Write the letter for each sound (see above)

*Correctly form upper- and lowercase letters (no reversals)

       Mm, Tt, Aa, Ss, Pp, Cc, Ii, Bb, Nn, Rr, Dd, Kk

*Form plural nouns by adding -s or –es           *Identify opposites

Social Studies

*Thanksgiving                 *Growing Up & Trying New Things

*George Washington     *The Revolutionary War

*Describe Families & Communities of the Past

*Historical Times & Timelines

Math

*Count to 50         *Name numerals 0 - 10 out of sequence

*Count forward beginning with a given number (0-50)

*Match quantities to numerals 0 - 10

*Write numerals 0 - 10 (no reversals)   *Order numerals 0 - 10

*Compare numerals and sets 0-10 to determine same/more/less

*Skip count by 10’s to 100                   *Name nickel/penny

*Decompose (separate) numbers 0-10 into two parts

*Copy and extend patterns

*Name and describe in the environment three-dimensional shapes:

sphere, cube, cone, cylinder

*Create and compare three-dimensional shapes

Science

*Mammals, Baby Animals, & Animal Sounds

*Seasons, Hibernation, & Animal Habitats

*Thermometers, Weather, & Weather Sounds

*Fruit and Vegetable Gardens and Plants

*Pandas & Endangered Animals

*How Animals Change               *Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Handwriting

*Print lower and upper case letters (review)

*Print their name correctly (review)

*Print simple sentences correctly

Language

         Sentences

*Beginning and ending sentences

*Identifying each type of sentence

     (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory)

*Capitalizing the first letter in a sentence, cities, states, streets,

     and special nouns

*Ending each sentence correctly

         Nouns

*Identify common and proper nouns

*Identify special nouns

Reading

*Identify the parts of a story

*Plot

*Main Idea and details

*Cause and effect

Math

       Number Sense and Operations

*Decomposing numbers             *Use the base 10 system

*Counting to 120                         *Place Value

*10 More 10 Less

         Word Problems

*Solving a specific problem using objects, drawings, and equations

Science

       Air and Weather (AMSTI)

*Identifying the types of weather       *Degrees on a thermometer

*Identifying the tools used to measure weather     *Seasons

       Living and Nonliving things

*Identifying a living and nonliving thing

*Identifying the needs of a living thing

Social Studies

Community                         

*Identifying the importance of a community helper and their roles and civic values

Rules and Responsibility

*Identify rules at home and school

Alabama

*Family traditions

Reading

*Apply grade level phonics and word analysis in decoding words

*Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of key

   details in text

*Use context clues to determine the meaning of words and phrases

*Identify main purpose of a text

*Recount stories, fables, and folktales from diverse cultures and

   determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

*Substitute initial, middle, and final phonemes

*Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly      

   spelled one-syllable words.

*Describe the overall structure of a story

Math

*Solve word problems using addition and subtraction within 100

*Fluently add and subtract within 100 using a variety of strategies

*Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental math

*Use addition to find the total amount when you have equal

   groups (arrays)

*Demonstrate knowledge of place value

*Skip count by 2’s, 5’s, 20’s, and 100’s

Social Studies

*Identify states, continents, oceans, and the equator using maps

   and globes

*Differentiate between a physical map and a political map

*Demonstrate the voting process, including roles of major

   political parties

*Relate principles of American democracy to the founding of

   the nation

Language Arts

*Identify and use nouns

*Write narratives in which the ideas, details, and events are in logical order

*Write to informative or explain in which a topic is introduced, facts and

     definitions are used to develop points, and provide a concluding statement

*Identify and use plural and possessive nouns

*Identify and use time and order words

*Identify and use proper nouns

*Consult references materials (beginning dictionaries)

*Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound

   sentences

Science

*Conduct an investigation to describe and classify various substances

   according to physical properties.

* Collect and evaluate data to determine appropriate uses of materials

     base on their properties

*Explain how structures made from small pieces can be disassembled and then

     rearranged to make new and different structures.

*Provide evidence that some changes in matter caused by heating or

     cooling can be reversed and some changes are irreversible

Reading

*Reading Fluency               *Reading Comprehension

*Sequence                           *Compare and contrast

*Story Structure

*Clarification strategies (sounding – out words, finding the meaning of words)

*Open-ended questions and answers

*Literary Text (character, setting plot, sequences, author's purpose, etc.)

*Literary Genres                   *Main idea and details

Language

*Speaking and writing in complete sentence

*Sentence Structure

*Types of Sentences -Declarative and Interrogative

*Capitalization

*Prefixes/Suffixes

*Punctuation

*Multiple meaning words

*Identify Subjects and Predicates

*Nouns: common, proper, plural, abbreviations, possessive

Math

*Multiplication fluency 0-12, count equal groups,

*Math Vocabulary             *Algebra - Relate Addition and Multiplication

*Compare numbers           *Use number lines to add and subtract

*Use place value to add and subtract

*Break Apart Strategies to Add and subtract

*Rounding and Estimating Differences

*Mental Math Strategies for Subtraction

*Word Problem to Solving   *Open-ended questions and answers

Science/Social Studies

*Component Notebook

*Science tools/Science safety

*Heredity and Diversity (structure of life)

*Ancient Civilization

*Government

*Western Hemisphere

*Economic Interdependence

*Describe ways energy from the sun is used

Reading

*Fact and Opinion

*Inferring

*Cause and Effect

*Graphic Sources

*Text structure

*Generalizing

*Main Ideas and Details

*Compare and Contrast

Language

*Singular and Plural Possessive Nouns

*Action and Linking Verbs

*Main and Helping Verbs

*Irregular Verbs

*Subject – Verb Agreement

*Past, Present, and Future Tenses

*Singular and Plural Nouns

*Context Clues

Science

*Forms of Energy (electrical, thermal, sound, kinetic, light, and potential)

*Sound Energy

*Light and Matter

*Heat

*Motion (force, speed, acceleration, velocity)

*Electricity

Math

*Estimating Quotients

*Interpreting Remainders

*Divide using up to four-digit dividends and one- digit divisors

*Factors and Divisibility

*Factors and Multiples

*Prime and Composite Numbers

*Number Patterns

*Multi-step Division Problems

Social Studies

*Alabama Facts and Symbols

*The Geography of Alabama

*Alabama's Natural Environment

*Alabama's Early People

*European Exploration and Settlement

Math

*Add, Subtract, Multiply, and Divide Decimals
*Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract

   fractions.
*Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication

     and division to multiply and divide fractions.
*Solve word problems involving addition, subtraction,

     multiplication, and division of fractions.

Reading

*Compare and Contrast             *Visualize

*Monitor and Clarify                 *Story Structure

*Author’s Purpose                    *Context clues

*Theme                                       *Inferring

*Context Clues                         *Build Background Knowledge

Language

*Nouns (plural and possessive)

*Verbs (action and linking)

*Verbs (main and helping)

*Subject Verb Agreement

Social Studies

*Early European patrons, explorers, and early settlements

*Major leaders, economic impact, and social changes in colonial society

*Identify reasons for the French and Indian War

*Impact of trade routes on emerging colonies in *America

                                     Science

*Plan and carry out investigations      

*Scientific Method

*Properties of Matter

*Solids, Liquids and Gases

*Mixtures and solutions