Curriculum

Kindergarten Report Card Content
Performance Descriptors

SD	Strongly Developed	The student demonstrates thorough understanding of concepts and skills. Performance is characterized by self-motivation and the ability to apply these skills with accuracy, quality and independence.
DA	Developing Appropriately	The student demonstrates an understanding of most concepts and skills. Performance is characterized by the ability to apply skills with increasing accuracy and independence.
BD	Beginning to Develop	The student is beginning to demonstrate an understanding of basic concepts and skills. Performance varies in consistency with regard to accuracy and quality.
NY	Not Yet Developed	The student does not yet demonstrate understanding of expected concepts and skills.

Literacy

Emergent Reading

Letter Recognition

Phonemic Awareness

Recognizes and produces rhyming words
Identifies beginning, medial and ending sounds in consonant-vowel-consonant words
Understands that sounds are represented by letters
Blends sounds to form words

Concepts of Print

Recognizes differences between print, illustrations, letters, and words
Understands the role of an author and an illustrator
Identifies the front and back of books and where a reader begins to read a story

Comprehension

Enjoyment of Books

Communication

Oral Language

Vocabulary

Writing

Writing Process

Writing Conventions

Mathematics

Concepts

Numbers and Operations
Show mastery of one-to-one correspondence
Uses manipulatives and numbers to represent quantities from 0 to 30
Sequences written numbers to 30
Demonstrates mastery of rote counting by 1’s forward to 100; rote counts backward from 20 to 0
Demonstrates ability to count by 1s, 5s, and 10s to 100
Represents quantities with manipulatives to make sets and compares groups
Begins to understand addition as the combining of groups
Begins to understand subtraction as it relates to comparing groups and taking away from groups
Identifies a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter
Compose and decompose numbers from 5-19 (e.g., 10+5=15 and 15=10+5)

Geometry/Measurement

Develops vocabulary that describes attributes of color, size and shape
Sorts, classifies and describes sets of objects by one or more attributes
Names and describes shapes: triangle, square, rectangle, circle, trapezoid, rhombus, and hexagon
Uses nonstandard units to measure real objects in length and weight

Problem Solving

Reasoning

Communication

Represents and solves real life problems by role playing, using manipulatives or creating graphic representations (e.g., pictures, graphs and patterns)
Begins to communicate their problem solving strategies to others

Science

Physical Science

Position and Motion

Earth and Space Science

Day and Night

Recognizes that the sun supplies heat and light
Understands that the sun is necessary for growth and life
Identifies some events around them have repeating patterns (e.g., seasons, days of the week and months)
Describe the weather changes from day to day and over the seasons

Life Science

Plant or Animal

Differentiates between living and non-living things
Groups both living and non-living things according to similar characteristics
Recognizes that animals and plants are living things that grow, and need food, air and water

Social Studies

Geography

Understands direction words (e.g., up, down, left, right, behind, and in front of)
Becomes familiar with a map and a globe
Knows street address, town, state, and country in which one lives
Identifies important historical places and public buildings within Hopedale

History

Correctly uses words and phrases related to chronology and time (e.g., morning, afternoon and night; today, tomorrow and yesterday)
Begins to recognize the significance of American holidays:

Civics/Government

Demonstrates understanding of citizenship (e.g., fairness, justice, authority, responsibility, and rules)

Economics

Becomes familiar with words relating to work, such as jobs, money, buying, and selling

Kindergarten Curriculum