Ware County Schools - Kindergarten - Standards by Month

August

English Language Arts

ELACCKRF1a: Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page-by-page.

ELACCKRI5: Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.

ELACCKRL6, 7, I6, I7: With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story, and describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).

ELACCKL1e: Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by with).

THESE LANGUAGE STANDARDS ARE TO BE INTEGRATED INTO YOUR LESSONS ALL YEAR.

ELACCKRF4: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.

ELACCKRF3a,b:

a. Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-on letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.

b. Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.

ELACCKL1a: Print many upper- and lowercase letters.

ELACCKRF1d: Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

ELACCKL1f: Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.

ELACCKRL10, RI10: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding

ELACCKSL1, 6: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups, and speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

a. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions 9e.g. listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion).

b. Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges

Math (Begin Unit 1. These standards will be taught during the months of August and September.)

MCCK.G.1: Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes (square, circle, rectangle, hexagon, cube, con, cylinder, sphere), and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to.

MCCK.G.2: Correctly name shapes (square, circle, rectangle, hexagon, cube, cone, cylinder, sphere) regardless of their orientations or overall.

MCCK.G.3: Identify shapes as two-dimensional (lying in a plane, “flat”) or three-dimensional (“solid”).

MCCK.G.4: Analyze and compare two-and three-dimensional shapes, in different sizes and orientations, using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, parts (e.g., number of sides and vertices/”corners”) and other attributes (e.g., having sides of equal length).

MCCK.G.5: Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components 9e.g., sticks and clay balls) and drawing shapes.

MCCK.G.6: Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes. For example, “Can you join these two triangles with full sides touching to make a rectangle?”

MCCK.MD. 3: Classify objects into given categories; counts the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count.

Social Studies

SSKG3 State the street address, city, county, state, nation, and continent in which he/she lives

SSKCG1a, b How rules are made and why they should be followed

September

English Language Arts

ELACCKRL1,2,3: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text, retell familiar stories, including key details, and identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

ELACCKRI8: With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.

ELACCKRF1b: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.

c. Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.

Math (Continue and complete Unit 1. Begin Unit 2. These math standards will be taught during the months of September and October.)

MCCK.CC.1: Count to 100 by ones and by tens.

MCCK.CC.2: Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).

MCCK.CC.4b: Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.

MCCK.CC.4c: Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger.

MCCK.MD. 3: Classify objects into given categories; counts the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count.

Social Studies

SSKE1 Describe work people do (police officer, fire fighter, soldier, mail carrier, baker, farmer, doctor, and teacher)

SSKE2 Explain that people earn income by exchanging their human resources (physical or mental work) for wages or salaries.

SSKE3a Distinguish goods from services

SSKE4 Explain that people must make choices because they cannot have everything they want.

*SSKH1 Identify the purpose of national holidays and describe the people or events celebrated (Labor Day)

October

English Language Arts

ELACCKRL4, RI4: Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.

ELACCKRL5: Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).

ELACCKL1d: Understand and use question words (interrogatives)
(e.g., who ,what ,where, when, why, how).

ELACCKRF2a: Recognize and produce rhyming words.

ELACCKRF2c: Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.

ELACCKW1: Use a comb. of drawing, dict., and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are “writing” about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is…).

Math (Continue and complete standards from Unit 2)

Science

SKP2a Sort object according to their motion

SKP2b Push, pull, roll objects and describe motion

SKP3a, b Some things in the sky return to earth, some don’t.

SKP3c Book falls when dropped, not when placed on a table

Social Studies

SSKH1 Identify the purpose of national holidays and describe the people or events celebrated (Columbus Day)

SSKCG2 Retell stories that illustrate positive character traits and will explain how the people in the stories show the qualities of honesty, patriotism, loyalty, courtesy, respect, truth, pride, self-control, moderation, and accomplishment.

November

English Language Arts

ELACCKRF1b,c: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.

b. Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters

c. Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.

ELACCKRL9: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories

ELACCKRI9: With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).

ELACCKRI1,2,3: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text, and describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

Math (Begin Unit 3. These standards will be taught during the months of November and December.)

MCCK.NBT1: Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones

MCCK.CC.3: Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).

MCCK.CC.4a: When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.

MCCK.CC.5: Count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 thing arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects.

MCCK.CC.6: Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, e.g., by using matching and counting strategies.

MCCK.CC.7: Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals.

MCCK.MD. 3: Classify objects into given categories; counts the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count.

Social Studies

SSKH1 Identify the purpose of national holidays and describe the people or events celebrated
(Veteran’s Day; Thanksgiving Day)

December

English Language Arts

ELACCKSL4: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.

ELACCKL5c: Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).

ELACCKRF3c: Read common high-frequency words by sight. (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).

ELACCKRF2d: Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not inc. CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.)

ELACCKW2: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.

Math (Continue and complete standards from Unit 3.)

Social Studies

SSKG1 Describe American culture by explaining diverse community and family celebrations and customs


January

English Language Arts

ELACCKL2:

c:Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes).

d: Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships

ELACCKL5b: Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms).

d. Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.

ELACCKRF2b: Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words.

Math (Begin Unit 4. These standards will be taught during the months of January and February.)

MCCK.OA.1: Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.

MCCK.OA.2: Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem.

MCCK.OA3: Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5= 2 + 3 and 5= 4 + 1).

MCCL.OA.4: For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation.

MCCK.OA.5: Fluently add and subtract within 5.

Social Studies

SSKH1 Identify the purpose of national holidays and describe the people or events celebrated
(Martin Luther King Day)

Science

SKP1a Compare and sort materials of different composition

SKP1b Classify common materials by physical attributes

February

English Language Arts

ELACCKL4a: Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck as a bird and learning the verb to duck).

ELACCKL5a: Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts he categories represent.

ELACCKL6: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.

ELACCKW5: With guidance and support from adults, the student responds to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.

Math (Continue and complete Unit 4. Begin Unit 5. These standards will be taught during the months of February, March and April.)

MCCK.OA.2: Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem.

MCCK.OA3: Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5= 2 + 3 and 5= 4 + 1).

MCCL.OA.4: For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation.

MCCK.OA.5: Fluently add and subtract within 5.

Social Studies

SSKH2 Identify American symbols; explain their meanings

SSKCG2 Retell stories that illustrate positive character traits and will explain how the people in the stories show the qualities of honesty, patriotism, loyalty, courtesy, respect, truth, pride, self-control, moderation, and accomplishment.

SSKH1 Identify the purpose of national holidays and describe the people or events celebrated (President’s Day)


March

English Language Arts

ELACCKW7, 8: Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of books by a favorite author and express opinions about them), and recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

ELACCKL2a, b:

a: Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I.

b: Recognize and name end punctuation.

ELACCKRF3d: Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.

ELACCKRF2e: Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.

Math (Continue Unit 5.)

Science

SKE2a Group rocks by physical attributes. (large/small, heavy/light, smooth/rough, dark/light, etc).

SKE2b Observe soils by physical attributes

SKE2c Recognize earth materials (soil, rocks, water, air)

Social Studies

SSKE3b Identify various forms of U.S. money (coins, currency)

SSKG2a, b, c Features of maps and globes: (1) land and water, (2) view from above, (3) features in a smaller scale

April

English Language Arts

ELACCKW3: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.

ELACCKW6: With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.

ELACCKL1b, c:

b. Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs

c. Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs: wish, wishes) when speaking

ELACCKL4b: Use the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.

ELACCKSL2: Confirm understanding of written texts read aloud or information presented orally or through media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
ELACCKSL3: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.

Math (Continue and complete Unit 5. Begin Unit 6. These standards will be taught during the months of April and May.)

MCCK.MD.1: Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight. Describe several measurable attributes of a single object.