Kindergarten Goals

  

Term 1 (September-November)

Topic 1: Numbers 0-5

• Students will count, group, read and write numbers 0-5
• Students will solve math word problems 
• Students will use the following math tools: counters, number cards, connecting cubes

Topic 2: Compare Numbers 0-5 

• Students will compare groups of numbers up to 5
• Students will learn greater than, less than, equal to

Topic 3: Numbers 6-10

• Students will count, group, read and write numbers 6-10

Topic 4: Compare Numbers 0-10

• Students will compare groups of numbers up from 0-10
• Students will continue to solve math word problems

Topic 5: Classify Count Data

• Students will be able to classify objects into categories and tell why they are in each category
• Students will be able to use counting to compare objects in different categories
• Students will be able to tell whether the way objects have been sorted, counted and compared makes sense

Term 2 (November-March)

Topic 6: Understand Addition

• Students will put numbers together using cubes.
• Students will add using pictures to find sums up to 10.

Topic 7: Understand Subtraction

• Students will write subtraction sentences for pictures.
• Students will solve subtraction sentences up to 10.
• Students will solve subtraction word problems using pictures.
• Students will take apart numbers in word problems.
• Students will write subtraction sentences up to 10.

Topic 8: More Addition and Subtraction

• Students will take apart numbers up to 5.
• Students will solve addition and subtraction word problems using pictures.
• Students will add or subtract numbers up to 5.
• Students will complete addition sentences with sums up to 5.
• Students will take apart numbers 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 in addition sentences.

Topic 9: Count Numbers to 20

• Students will count on ten frames from 11 to 15 using pictures and numbers.
• Students will count on ten frames from 6 to 20 using pictures and numbers.
• Students will identify numbers up to 20 using a ten frame.
• Students will count on a chart up to 20.
• Students will count forward on a chart to 20.
• Students will represent numbers up to 20.
• Students will find numbers before, after, and between on a number line up to 20.

Topic 10: Compose and Decompose Numbers 11 to 19

• Students will make teen numbers using addition sentences.
• Students will take apart teen numbers using addition sentences.
• Students will find ten more on a chart up to 20.

Term 3(March-June)

Topic 11: Count Numbers to 100

• Students will count using patterns up to 30.
• Students will count by ones and tens to 50 and 100.

Topic 12:Identify and Describe Shapes

• Students will name two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes.
• Students will identify circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, hexagons, and name solid shapes.
• Students will describe shapes in the environment.

Topic 13: Analyze, Compare, and Create Shapes

• Students will count vertices and sides of two-dimensional shapes.
• Students will compare two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes.
• Students will make new two-dimensional shapes from other shapes.

Topic 14: Describe and Compare Measurable Attributes

• Students will describe and compare objects by length and height.
• Students will describe and compare objects by capacity and weight.
• Students will describe and compare objects by measurable attributes.

 

	Reading Themes	Writing Genres	Dates
Module 1	Curious About Kindergarten (Fiction, Poetry, Informational Text)	Opinion Writing	September-October
Module 2	There's Only One Me!  (Fiction, Persuasive Text, Informational Text, Fable)	Narrative Writing	October- December
Module 3	My Community Heroes (Informational Text, Realistic Fiction, Fable, Poetry)	Informational Text Writing	December- January
Module 4	Happy Healthy Me (Informational Text, Fiction, Fairy Tale, Poetry)	Research Writing	January- March
Module 6	Home of the Free and the Brave (Poetry/Song, Informational Text, Fiction, Biography)	Informational Text Writing	March- April
Module 7	Zoom In!  (Informational Text, Biography, Persuasive Text)	Creative Story Writing	April- May
Module 8	From Plant to Plate  (Poetry/Song, Informational Text, Fiction, Biography)	Opinion Writing	May- June