Kindergarten Curriculum Guide

Religion

  • Prayers
  • Weekly Mass
  • Songs
  • Rosary
  • Catholic Traditions
  • Community Outreach
  • Bible Stories
  • Saints
  • Feasts and Devotions

Language Arts

  • Extend/review letter recognition
  • Letter/sound relationship
  • High-frequency words
  • Beginning to read
  • Grammar
  • Punctuation
  • Phonetic reading
  • Oral reading
  • Clear speaking
  • Rhymes
  • Literature
  • Comprehension
  • Predict outcomes
  • Drama
  • Poetry

Handwriting

  • Letter formation
  • Directionality
  • Write first and last name
  • Word of the day writing
  • Individual ideas expressed in writing

Math

  • Count by ones
  • Skip count by two’s and fives
  • Write and identify numbers to 31
  • Describe, identify and extend patterns
  • Sort and classify
  • Ordinal numbers
  • Geometry and fractions
  • Algebraic thinking
  • Money and time
  • Calendar
  • Measurement
  • Graphing
  • Addition and subtraction

Science

  • Characteristics of living things
  • Identification of internal and external body parts
  • Using the senses to observe the physical characteristics of objects
  • Different ways things move and directional motion
  • Day and night
  • Earth and sky
  • Changing seasons

Social Studies

  • Map skills
  • Globes
  • Awareness of world as a larger place
  • Seasonal holidays and months
  • Community helpers
  • American symbols
  • American heroes
  • Patriotic songs
  • Citizenship

Art

  • Creativity-based art program
  • Students become familiar with basic art materials: marker, crayon, paint, scissors, clay, etc.
  • Two dimensional and three dimensional shapes
  • Beginning coloring, cutting and sculpting drawing skill development
  • Individual and group projects
  • School participation in various art shows and contests in the community and at school

Library

  • Introduce students to a diverse collection of Children’s Literature and authors
  • Foster working knowledge of library resources
  • Experience a variety of media

Physical Education

  • Students participate in a wide variety of movement activities
  • Basic locomotor skills - hop, walk, run, jump, leap, gallop, skip, and slide
  • Basic non-locomotor skills - bending, twisting, stretching, turning, lifting
  • Various techniques for throwing, catching, kicking, and hitting
  • Participates in rhythm and dance activities
  • Understands the importance of acting in a safe and respectable manner

COMPUTERS

  • Beginning keyboarding skills
  • Mouse and CD-ROM operation
  • Age appropriate games including Kid Keys, Miss Spider’s Tea Party, Clifford and Jump Start

MUSIC

  • Students participate in weekly classes learning hymns and liturgical songs