ABCs
Books Rule
It's time to (hopefully) start your kindergartener's lifelong love of books. Reading fluency is not necessarily a priority for K students, but they will be exposed to the fundamentals during the school year. They will learn letter sounds, phonemic awareness, word families and to recognize words that rhyme.
Write Away
They won't be able to write their own absence notes yet but students will spend their kindergarten year learning to print capital and lowercase letters of the alphabet. They'll also learn how to print their own names, a few short words and numbers up to 20.
Add It Up
If you have two chicken nuggets and I eat one, how many do you have left? Your student will learn simple math concepts, like using objects to solve simple addition and subtraction problems. They will also learn the concepts of more and less, ordinal numbers and creating patterns. I also remember my kids' kindergarten years as the last time I was able to understand their math homework.
Science Time
Your kindergarten student will learn science basics about plants and animals, weather and seasons and perform simple science experiments to introduce them to the concept of scientific inquiry. They may observe and record the weather, plant seeds, watch them grow, and observe animals and insects.
Get Social
For kindergarteners, social studies starts off with the focus on "me"—learning about their families and extended families, their personal information like addresses and phone numbers and their own interests. Their study then broadens to include the study and understanding of different families, cultures and communities.
Shape Up
The visual understanding of shapes is crucial to many other studies like math and science, so your kindergartener will learn how to name and describe common shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle) and also to identify, sort and classify objects by color, size and shape.
