Kindergarten Curriculum

Science

September –November:

  • Trees Through the Seasons

December - February:

  • Exploring Properties

March – June:

  • All About Animals

Social Studies

September – October:

  • School and School Community Citizens: Understanding civic ideas and practices
  • What does it mean to be a member of a school community?

November – December:

  • Self and others: Individual Development and Cultural Identity
  • How are people alike and different?

January – March:

  • Geography, people and the environment
  • What makes a community?

April – June:

  • Families, Change and Time: How are families the same and different?

Math – Go Math/Engage NY

September - October:

  • Represent, Count, and Write numbers 0 to 5

October – November:

  • Compare numbers to 5

November – December:

  • Represent, count and write numbers 6 to 9

December – January:

  • Represent and compare numbers to 10

January – February:

  • Addition

February - March:

  • Subtraction

March – April:

  • Represent count and write 11 to 19

April - May:

  • Represent, count, and write 20 and Beyond

May – June:

  • Identify and describe 2 dimensional shapes

ELA – Teachers College

September - October:

  • We are Readers!
  • Launching the Writing Workshop

October - November:

  • Emergent Reading: Looking Closely at Familiar Texts
  • Looking Closely: Observing, labeling, and listing like scientists.

November - December:

  • Super Powers: Reading with Print Strategies and Sight Word Power
  • Writing for Readers

January - February:

  • Bigger Books, Bigger Reading Muscles
  • How – To – Books: Writing to Teach Others

February – March:

  • Becoming Avid Readers
  • Persuasive Writing of all Kinds

April – May:

  • Growing Expertise in Little Books: Reading for Information
  • All About Books

May – June:

  • Readers are Resourceful: Tackling Hard words and Tricky Parts in our books
  • Crafting stories using all we know about Narrative Writing