Author: Heidi Legner

St. Mary’s School
Kindergarten Curriculum
414 N Main Street
Pontiac, IL 61764
815-844-6585

Kindergarten Curriculum Map
Language Arts
Identify all letters and sounds
Apply phonemic awareness strategies such as phonics, word patterns, rhyming
Make predictions and connect parts of a story to previous experience
Recognize the elements of a story such as characters and setting
Identify and answer questions related to the main idea
Express ideas in simple, complete sentences
Listen to an oral message and answer questions
Retell a story that has been read orally
Read sight and decodable words
Write a complete sentence by the end of the year.
Write first and last name correctly
Use correct formation of letters as taught

Religion
Recognize that God created the world
Pray Hail Mary, Our Father, Angel of God, and Grace before meals
Participate in Lent/Advent activities
Introduce Bible stories
Discuss the lives of saints
Develop an awareness of home and church family
Prepare for and participate in weekly School Masses
Learn about the Rosary
Participate in service projects
Math
Identify and write whole numbers to 100
Count by 1’s, 5’s, and 10’s to 100
Count by 2’s to 50
Demonstrate one-to-one correspondence
Identify and solve simple addition and subtraction problems within 10.
Organize and compare graphic data
Understand place value (ones, tens, and hundreds)
Identify days of the week and months of the year
Understand greater than, less than, and equal
Measure with standard and non-standard units
Identify 2-dimenstional shapes and 3-dimenstional solids

Social Studies
Identify attributes of responsible citizenship
Identify community helpers and the ways in which they serve others.
Describe and respect customs and holidays
Recognize American symbols such as the flag and White House
Recite the Pledge of Allegiance
Use maps to locate places
Identify what city, state, and country we live in.
Science
Compare and contrast living and non-living things
Identify stages in the life cycles of selected living things
Identify the five senses and describe their functions
Name the four seasons and describe seasonal and weather changes
Describe the differences between solids and liquids
Explore simple forces around us (magnets, wind, gravity, and vibrations).

Revised May 2016