Grade K
Kindergarten English Language Arts Standards
ELA
- Language
- command of the conventions and usage when writing or speaking (words written left to right, top to bottom, spaces between words)
- Reading
- Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print
- Read common high-frequency words by sight (such as: the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does)
- Analysis of Text
- With prompting and support, students identify the main topic and retell key details of a text
- Speaking and Listening
- Students follow agreed-upon rules for discussions and continue a conversation through multiple exchanges
Math
- Counting and Cardinality
- Count numbers from 1 to 100, by ones or tens
- Write numbers from 1 to 20
- Answer questions about 'how many?'
- Compare numbers (both objects and written) as greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group
- Geometry
- Identify and describe shapes (squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres)
- Describe objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to
- Identify shapes as two-dimensional (lying in a plane, “flat”) or three-dimensional (“solid”)
- Model shapes in the world
- Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight
- Number and Operations in Base Ten
- Work with numbers 11–19 to gain foundations for place value by composing and decomposing numbers from 11 to 19 into tens and ones.
- Operations and Algebraic Thinking
- Addition as putting together and subtraction as taking apart/from by using objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds, acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations
Science
- Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
- Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
- How plants and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs and their relationships.
- Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the local environment.
- Weather and Climate
- Make observations to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface.
- Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.
- Ask questions to obtain information about the purpose of weather forecasting to prepare for, and respond to, severe weather.
- Forces and Interactions
- Investigate pushes and pulls on the motion of an object.
- Explore changes to the speed or direction of an object with pushes or a pulls.
- Engineering Design
- Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.
- Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.
- Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.
History
- Citizens
- being a good citizen involves acting in certain ways
- match simple descriptions of work that people do and the names of related jobs at the school, community, and historical accounts
- Symbols
- recognize national and state symbols and icons such as the national and state flags, the bald eagle, and the Statue of Liberty.
- Geography
- compare and contrast the locations of people, places, and environments and describe their characteristics
- Events
- put events in temporal order using a calendar, placing days, weeks, and months in proper order
- history relates to events, people, and places of other times