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K4 Curriculum

Language Arts


  • Listens with understanding to conversations and stories
  • Shares information and ideas in complete, coherent sentences
  • Follows three simple oral directions
  • Identifies auditory differences and likenesses (rhyming words)
  • Uses language for a variety of purposes
  • (making requests, expressing feelings, describing differences and similarities)
  • Identifies letters in name
  • Recognizes name in print
  • Identifies upper case letters (A-Z)
  • Identifies visual likenesses and differences
  • Predicts what will happen next in a story
  • Retells information after hearing it read
  • Recognizes the association between the spoken and written words
  • Shows an interest in books
  • Imitates reading while turning pages from front to back
  • Demonstrates left to right progression
  • Demonstrates top to bottom progression
  • Engages in group writing projects
  • Dictates stories from personal experience
  • Writes in a variety of forms to convey meaning
  • (scribbling, letter-like forms, letters)
  • Communicates full name
  • Communicates address (house number, street, city, and state)
  • Communicates birth date

Math

  • Identifies circles
  • Identifies triangles
  • Identifies squares
  • Identifies rectangles
  • Identifies ovals
  • Identifies diamonds
  • Identifies octagons
  • Demonstrates understanding of relative positions
  • (up, down, over, under, etc.)
  • Uses basic comparison words
  • (bigger, faster, longer, etc.)
  • Sorts objects using one, two, or three attributes
  • Recognizes and duplicates ABC patterns
  • (red, yellow, blue, red, yellow, blue)
  • Seriates several objects (shortest to longest, etc.)
  • Shows interest in numbers and counting
  • Participates with group counting to 30
  • Counts orally to 20
  • Uses one to one correspondence
  • Counts to recognize how many are in a set
  • Identifies numerals 0-15
  • Recognizes ordinal positions: first, second, third, and last
  • Identifies pennies
  • Identifies nickels
  • Identifies dimes
  • Identifies quarters

Science

  • Identifies the five senses
  • Uses senses to observe, classify, and order objects with a variety of characteristics
  • Identifies differences between living and nonliving things
  • (basic needs of living organisms are food, shelter, water, and sunlight)
  • Identifies basic concepts associated with night/day and seasons
  • Uses common weather vocabulary
  • (rainy, snowy, sunny, windy)
  • Expresses wonder and asks questions about natural happenings

Social Studies

  • Recognizes self and others as having shared and different characteristics
  • Demonstrates an awareness of likenesses and differences in families
  • Recognizes community workers and increases awareness of the jobs they perform
  • Understands beginning geographic concepts
  • Recognizes maps
  • Knows that the globe is a model of the Earth
  • Distinguishes between land and water masses on globe and maps

Personal and Social Development

  • Separates from parents without reluctance
  • Exhibits appropriate emotional behaviors
  • Uses materials purposefully and respectively
  • Takes responsibility for own behavior and actions
  • Follows rules and routines
  • Manages transitions
  • Sustains attention to task over a period of time
  • Participates as part of the classroom community
  • Takes turns
  • Cooperates with children during group physical activities
  • Shows empathy and caring for others
  • Uses socially acceptable ways to resolve conflict
  • Respects adult authority
  • Uses appropriate skills when expressing needs, wants, and feelings


Physical Development

  • Uses balance and control to perform gross motor tasks:
  • runs
  • jumps
  • hops
  • skips
  • throws and catches a ball
  • Performs fine motor tasks
  • Begins to practice self-help skills (buttoning, zipping, etc.)
  • Manipulates small objects
  • Cuts with scissors
  • Begins to control drawing and writing tools
  • Takes care of personal hygiene

The Arts

  • Use a variety of art materials to express ideas and feelings
  • Shows interest and appreciation for work of others
  • Participates in group music experiences
  • Sings a variety of simple songs
  • Participates in creative movement and drama activities

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