Kindergarten Academic Curriculum
Knapp Forest's Kindergarten Parent Curriculum Book ---> Curriculum Overview
Forest Hills Public School --> Official K-8 ELA Curriculum
For more information on detailed standards and objectives, please see ---> Common Core
Forest Hills Public School --> Official K-8 ELA Curriculum
For more information on detailed standards and objectives, please see ---> Common Core
End of Year Grade Expectations
(as seen on progress reports and report cards)
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Successful Learning Behaviors
Mathematics
Technology
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Language Arts
Science
Social Studies
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Literacy: Lucy Calkins - Reading, Writing, and Phonics
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About the Kindergarten Reading Units
"In kindergarten, your students begin to establish their identities as readers while they build the foundational skills for reading. In the first unit, We Are Readers, children will develop concepts of print, phonemic awareness, phonics, and the knowledge necessary to use story language to support their approximations of reading. The second unit, Super Powers: Reading with Print Strategies and Sight Word Power, glories in children’s love of play as they learn “super power” strategies that help them search for meaning, use picture clues, work on fluency, and communicate meaning. In the third unit, Bigger Books, Bigger Reading Muscles, children attempt more difficult books with greater independence and use reading strategies to read with more accuracy, fluency, and comprehension. The last kindergarten unit, Becoming Avid Readers, helps youngsters role-play their way into being the readers you want them to become. They pay close attention to characters, setting, and plot while reading fictional stories, become experts in nonfiction topics as they read together in clubs, and play with rhyme and rhythm while reading poetry." - Heinemann
About the Kindergarten Writing Units
"The kindergarten units begin with Lucy and her colleagues helping children approximate writing by drawing and labeling first in all-about books and then in stories. The first unit, Launching the Writing Workshop, acknowledges that most children will be labeling their drawings—and the letters in those labels will include squiggles and diamonds. The second unit, Writing for Readers, helps children write true stories—but does so fully aware that the hard part will be writing read-able words. Growth in kindergarten is spectacular, and by the later kindergarten units, children are invited to use their new-found powers to live writerly lives. In How-To Books: Writing to Teach Others, Unit 3, students write informational how-to texts on a procedure familiar to them. In Persuasive Writing of All Kinds: Using Words to Make a Change, the fourth and final unit in the kindergarten series, students craft petitions, persuasive letters, and signs that rally people to address problems in the classroom, the school, and the world." - Heinemann
Math: Everyday Mathematics
This is the Login URL for online student math accounts! --> Everyday Mathematics
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Social Studies
- Map and globes; environmental directional and positional words
- U. S. symbols
- Wants and needs
- Yesterday, today, tomorrow- how people learn about the past
- Rights and responsibilities of being a responsible community member
Science
- The needs of a healthy body
- Basic needs
- Earth's Materials: rocks, soil, sand and water
- Five Senses in our world
- Motion- pushes and pulls/engineering
