Elementary Standards and Resources
A Note to Kindergarten Parents
Kindergarteners learn best by active, hands-on exploration and discovery.
They make sense of the world by experiencing it physically.
Teachers read a variety of poems, stories, and non-fiction books aloud to children.
Kindergarten children learn that letters and sounds go together to form words,
and how to identify alphabet letters and their sounds. Many kindergarten children
are expected to read words by the end of the year. Kindergarteners have grown
a lot since their preschool days. They've grown bigger and are becoming more
graceful and coordinated. They've grown intellectually
and can focus on tasks for longer periods of time. They've grown socially and
have a better handle on the skills needed to make friends and work in a group.
They've become complex thinkers and are better able to understand detailed
answers to the many "why" questions they have about the world.
Parents
may receive their child's first poem, as kindergartners will be asked
to do more writing than preschoolers. Your kindergartener's
journal may look
like a combination of letter strings and scribbles to most people, but
it carries a most important message - that he can write to create his
own stories, to
tell about his experiences, and to share information.
Counting cubes, number
rods, and other math materials help kindergartners work with a larger
set of numbers. Children also begin to use physical
materials to solve simple addition and subtraction problems, like how
many cookies
they'll
have left after they've shared some with a friend. They'll learn about
time, using tools like clocks and calendars regularly in the classroom.
While they're
not fully able to tell time or even realize exactly what a month or a
second is, they'll begin to understand that one measures a longer amount
of time,
and
the other a short amount.
Click on the links below in order to see the
specific skills your child will learn this year:
Resources:
Parents: Kindergarten - First - Second - Third - Fourth - Fifth Students: Kindergarten - First - Second - Third - Fourth - Fifth
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