Kindergarten Corner
Ms. Murphy
Ms. Scanlon
Mrs. Savio
 
Fairfax County's Kindergarten Curriculum

READING

Oral and Written Communication

  • Listening & telling experiencs orally
  • Rhyming words
  • Recognizing and printing letters & sounds
  • Recognizing how print works
  • Identifying characters, setting & events of a story
  • Retelling beginning, middle & end of a familiar story
  • Identifying autho and illustrator
  • Drawing pictures & using letters/symbols to write about experiences
  • Beginning to ask how & why questions

 

 

MATH

Understand Basic Number Concepts

  • One to one correspondance
  • Counting forward & backward
  • Skip counting by fives & tens
  • Beginning addition & subtraction

Modes of Measurement

  • Coins & coin value
  • Weight, length, time, calendar, temperature

Geometry / Patterns

  • Identifying, describing & creating shapes
  • Comparing size & shape
  • Sorting & classifying objects
  • Identifying & creating repeating patterns

 

SCIENCE

  • Magnets
  • Five Senses
  • Properties of Objects (color, shape,size, weight, position, speed)
  • Properties of Water
  • Life Process of Plants & Animals (ants & pumpkins)
  • Shadows
  • Weather
  • Reduce, Recycle & Reuse

 

SOCIAL STUDIES

History

  • Events & people of other times & places
  • Important people & holidays

Geography

  • Simple maps
  • Location of objects
  • Land & water
  • Shape of state & nation

Economics

  • Needs & Wants
  • Money

Civics

  • Good Citizenship
  • Traditional Symbols

 

 

 

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