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Sam Placentino School
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| Table of Contents |
| ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS |
| MATHEMATICS |
| SCIENCE |
| SOCIAL STUDIES |
| HEALTH EDUCATION |
| ART |
| MUSIC |
| PHYSICAL EDUCATION |
| FOREIGN LANGUAGE |
Literacy is a primary goal in our Kindergarten programs. Through active involvement in concrete and meaningful language-rich activities, young children learn about themselves and their world and develop their intellectual, physical and social skills. At the Placentino School, we create environments that reflect our understanding of young children and how they learn. An integrated curricula is an important part of the Kindergarten program. The Kindergarten curricular areas of reading, math, science, art, social studies, foreign language, writing, music and movement are naturally interrelated to make learning meaningful for children and to actively engage them in the process as well as in the product. We work to make our language, expectations, curriculum, and materials age-appropriate and supportive of the individual growth patterns and needs of the “whole child”. We arrange classrooms, organize daily schedules, and choose activities and materials that will enable children to learn and grow by moving their bodies, manipulating real objects, and interacting with others. Every activity has meaning and becomes an integral part of the ongoing learning process.
EMERGENT READING
- Letter Recognition
Identifies letter names. Identifies the sounds represented by letters.
- Phonemic Awareness
Understands that sounds are represented by letters. Identifies beginning and ending sound in words. Identifies rhyming patterns. Identifies and states the rhyming words in a given poem or story. Generates own rhymes. Concepts of Print Recognizes difference between print and illustrations.
- Recognizes difference between letters, words and numerals.
- Understands left to right and top to bottom progression.
- Comprehension
- Begins to develop the concept of the main idea of a story read aloud.
- Uses pictures to retell a story.
- Develops and awareness of beginning, middle and end of a story.
- Makes inferences and predictions about text.
- Identifies the main character (s) of a story.
- Learns about different cultures through literature.
- Enjoyment of Books
- Listens to a story for enjoyment and information.
- Begins to develop a personal appreciation of books.
- EMERGENT WRITING
- Uses phonetic spelling to express ideas.
- Prints first and last name using upper and lower case letters with correct spacing.
- Begins to develop an awareness of correct spacing.
- Draws pictures with labels.
- Contributes to modeled writing activities.
- Shares and displays written work.
- SPEAKING
- Tells a story about an event in own experience.
- Gives simple explanations.
- Contributes relevant ideas to conversation and class discussion.
- Describes objects, events, feelings in a class discussion.
- Recites familiar nursery rhymes, poems, and chants.
- LISTENING
- Uses active listening skills (eye contact, sits appropriately, etc.)
- Responds appropriately to the speaker.
PROCEDURES
- Number Sense
Matches quantities up to at least 20 with numerals. Compares sets of up to 10 concrete objects using appropriate language (none, more than, fewer than, same number). Orders numbers. Counts by ones to at least 30. Models and solves addition sums to 10 and is introduced to subtraction situations using manipulatives. Begins to develop an understanding of ordinal numbers. Estimates the number of objects in a group. Identifies U.S. coins by name. (Penny, Nickel, Dime, Quarter) Understands the concept that U.S. coins have value. Understands the concept of whole and half. Patterns Sorts and classifies by size, shape, color, and number. Identifies, describes, reproduces, extends, and creates simple patterns. Skip counts by 10’s up to 100. Geometry and Spatial Sense Names, describes, and draws simple two-dimensional shapes. Describes attributes of two-dimensional shapes, e.g., number of sides, number of corners. Explores three-dimensional concrete objects. Identifies positions of objects in space and uses appropriate language (next to, inside, beside, below) to describe their relative positions. Measurement Tells time to the hour and is introduced to telling time to the half hour. Uses standard and nonstandard units to measure. Compares lengths, weights, and capacities using appropriate language (longer, taller, heavier, lighter, holds more, holds less, same). Understands calendar concepts of days and weeks.
- Data Analysis
- Understands that the human body needs special care.
- Physical Science: Properties of Matter
- Compares, contrasts, and sorts a variety of objects based on size, shape, color, and/or texture.
- Investigates solids and liquids.
- Physical Science: Magnets
- Recognizes that certain materials are attracted to magnets.
- Explores the relative strength of magnets.
- Physical Science: Sound
- Recognizes environmental sounds.
- Explores the relationship between sound and vibration.
- SOCIAL STUDIES
- Geography
- Identifies land and water on a map or globe.
- States home telephone number and address, including town and state.
- Demonstrates an understanding of the directions left, right, near, and far.
- Identifies the four seasons and characteristics of each in New England.
- History/Civics
- Recognizes that history is a remembrance of the past.
- Describes the importance of Thanksgiving.
- Investigates the importance of Columbus Day, Veteran’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, President’s Day, Memorial Day.
- Culture/Economics
- Explores the concept of a community.
- Investigates community occupations.
- Describes the composition of one’s own family.
- Explores the ways artists create their works by looking at illustrations in literature, art, reproductions, and/or works of visiting artists.
Discovers ways to communicate ideas through art.
- PHYSICAL EDUCATION
- Motor Skills
- Acquires basic motor patterns (i.e., walk, run, jump, skip, gallop, slide, and hop.)
- Combines basic motor patterns for participation in individual and group activities.
- Demonstrates the following manipulative skills: dribbling, using hands/feet, catching self-tossed objects, and throwing overhand/underhand.
Demonstrates an understanding of health and wellness concepts. Applies health knowledge in class.
- French Immersion:
Is able to obtain information and knowledge and follow directions through listening to French (limited vocabulary). Explores ability to respond to oral prompts in French using selected words, phrases and expressions regarding a limited number of topics.