Kindergarten
Kindergarten
Below you will find our Kindergarten General Studies Curriculum Scope and Sequence. This provides parents with a general overview of the skill and topics covered. The Jewish Day school of the Lehigh Valley is proud to be able to tailor our education to the needs of our students as appropriate, so this is a broad scope of what is taught to our students. Additional topics may and will be covered.
Kindergarten General Studies
Language Arts
The students will explore a variety of themes and literature types designed to efficiently and effectively teach students to decode and comprehend content, which promotes critical thinking. Our program includes 4 components of language arts, reading, writing, speaking and listening.
Math
Our math program uses both direct and hand on instruction through the use of modeling, manipulatives, group work and problem solving. The students will learn concepts such as sorting/classifying, identifying both plane and geometric shapes, patterning, comparing/ordering, graphing, number sense 0-12, measurement, time/money counting-penny, nickel and dime, addition, subtraction, counting by 5’s and 10’s to 150. These skills will provide a solid foundation of mathematical skills that can be built upon as the student progress to first grade.
Social Studies
Our social studies program teaches our students how to look first at themselves as special individuals then to look outward at their school, their neighborhood, their state, their world. Through a series of creative and hands-on projects, the students will begin to develop a better understanding of their relationship to the world around them.
Handwriting
Our program focuses on the 4 main keys to handwriting success: shape, size, spacing and slant. The students will practice proper handwriting position while learning
Classroom Science
During our science lessons the students will have the opportunity to learn, study, examine and eventually create projects/assignments that correlate with our main science topics including the sky and weather, the ocean, living vs. non-living things. Students who are given opportunities to ask questions, observe and record data and make conclusions are building upon and enhancing their abstract thinking skills.
Survey Questions:
What are the top 10 skill and knowledge goals you have for your students at the end of the year?
Please list the goals for each subject area and grade that you teach.
• Language Arts
• All letter names and sounds
• Phonemic Awareness—rhyming, opposites, segmentation, phonemic replacement, etc.
• List of 40+ sight words, word families, “buzz words”
• Pre-decodable and decodable reading books w/program
• Reading—build a background, preview, predict, comprehend, infer, respond, inquire
• Lang. Arts—Writer’s workshop, action words, describing words, pronouns, nouns—person, place, thing, classification
• Vocab.
• Word Analysis
Math
• Sorting & Classifying
• Working w/shapes—includes geometric, can, ball, box
• Patterns & labeling, ABC, ABB, AAB, ABBC, etc.
• Comparing & ordering
• Comparing 7 graphing
• Number sense 0-4 w/simple addition
• Number sense 5-8 w/simple addition
• Numbers 9-12 w/simple addition
• Measurement—using non-standard units & inches
• Time & Money—penny, nickel, dime
• Taking away
Social Studies
• Meeting our class
• We are special
• Our busy classroom
• Looking at maps
• N.S.E.W.
• Land forms
• Pennsylvania-State facts, bird, flower, location, capital, flag
• Our country, our world, continents, recycling, land & water
• Our family, our neighborhood, our world
Handwriting
• Proper formation of ALL uppercase letters
• Proper formation of ALL lowercase letters
• Proper formation of the numerals 0-10
• Coloring/fine motor skills, mandalas
Science
• The Sky and Weather—this includes the 4 seasons, 4 types of clouds: cumulus, cumulonimbus, stratus, nimbostratus
• The Ocean
• Living Things
• Matter—solid, liquid and gas
What curricular materials and resources do you currently use?
(for each subject area and grade that you teach)
• Language Arts
• Open Court-all 8 teacher guides
• Home/School Connection
• Writer’s Workshop
• Blackline Masters
• Lang. Art skills workbook
• Sound & letter skills
• Colored pre-decodable 7 decodable take-home books
• Leveled books for more advanced readers-Steck Vaughn
Math
• Addison Wesley Teachers Manual
• Enrichment Workbooks
• All manipulatives--unifix cubes, place value blocks, money, geometric shapes, small, medium & large bears, tanagrams, counting/sorting • bears, inch blocks.
• Learning library resources
• Websites—Kid Zone
Social Studies
• MacMillian McGraw Hill—Here I Am
• Teacher’s manual
• Project book
• Kid Zone
Handwriting
• Zaner Bloser teacher’s manual
• Practice Masters
• Coloring/Fine Motor Skills-mandalas
Science
• Scott Forseman Science-K
• Teacher edition only
• Pockets came from Virginia Knapp
• Kid Zone-supplementals