Kindergarten

Kindergarten

Math

ELA

  • I can count to 100 starting at any given number.

  • I can find, name, and describe two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes.

  • I can count objects in a group correctly (each object is counted only once) regardless of arrangement and order.

  • I can understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from.

  • I can explain my strategy for representing addition and subtraction problems.

  • I can compose and decompose numbers 11-19 using a ten and some ones to show my work.

  • I can compare two numerals between 1 and 10 and say which numeral has a greater value.

  • I can name and write upper and lower-case letters.

  • I can identify words that rhyme.

  • I can express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

  • I can read common words such as: the, of, you, are, she, and my.

  • I can use pictures in a text to help me understand it.

  • I can match letters to sounds and use other strategies to figure out unfamiliar words when reading and writing.

  • I can fluently read and understand text at a kindergarten level (F&P end of the year levels are D/E).

    With Prompting and Support:

  • I can identify setting, characters, and main events in a story.

  • I can take part in shared reading, writing, and research projects.

  • I can ask and answer questions about a story the teacher reads aloud (who, what where, when, why and how).

  • I can tell what happened first, next, and last in a story (in my own words).

  • I can learn new words and phrases through reading, listening, and talking.

  • I can explain the main idea and key details are an important part a text.

  • I can describe connections between two individuals, two events, and two ideas or information in a text.

  • I can use a combination of drawing, speaking, and writing to describe an event, give information about a topic, or share an opinion.

Science

Social Studies

Physical Science

  • I can plan and show how pushes and pulls change the motion of an object.

  • I can change the speed or direction of an object when I push or pull it.

Life Science

  • I can describe what plants and animals need to survive.

  • I can explain how plants and animals change their environment.

  • I can model the relationship between plants, animals, and the places they live.

  • I can compare ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle to decrease our impact on the environment.

Earth Science

  • I can observe what the sun does to the Earth’s surface.

  • I can design and build a structure that will reduce sunlight’s warmth on an area.

  • I can observe and identify local weather patterns over time.

  • I can collect data and prepare for severe weather.

  • I can explain what it means to be a good citizen in my classroom.

  • I can recognize the American Flag.

  • I can say the Pledge of Allegiance.

  • I can describe location of familiar places.

  • I can explain direction and distance by using up/down, over/under, here/there, front/back, behind/in front of.

  • I can share my personal history sequentially using a timeline.

  • I can explain what I need to live.

  • I can name natural resources like water, trees, soil and sunlight

Music

Art

I can do everything I did in 4K and the following:

  • I can identify create and perform steady beat and rhythm

  • I can identify create and perform using quarter notes/rests and eighth notes .

  • I can identify, create and perform using loud and quiet sounds, fast and slow tempos, and high and low pitches

  • I can sing in my head and chest voices simple songs

  • I can identify AB form and same/different parts of a song

  • I can identify families of instruments by sight

Creating

  • I can use “play” to make discoveries about art in my world

  • I can experiment with both 2D and 3D using a variety of materials

  • I can learn how to be safe using the materials and tools that make art.

Presenting

  • I can learn to write my name on my art

  • I can talk about my art

  • I can build on my interests

Responding

  • I can select my art to display

  • I can explain to my teacher what my art means to me

  • I can be actively involved in group discussions about art

Connecting

  • I can watch others use the internet, and understand it’s use to an artist

  • I can recognize the reasons that people make art

  • I can become involved with colors and how they make me feel

  • I can find art in the community