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Kindergarten Performance Standards, Second Nine Weeks-- Revised 09-10

Reading/English/Language Arts

Concepts of Print: ELAKR1: The student demonstrates knowledge of concepts in print.

Recognizes that print and pictures (signs and labels, newspapers, and informational books) can inform, entertain, and persuade
Demonstrates that print has meaning and represents spoken language in written form
Tracks text read from left to right and top to bottom
Distinguishes among written letters, words, and sentences
Recognizes that sentences in print are made up of separate words
Begins to understand that punctuation and capitalization are used in all written sentences

Phonological Awareness: ELAKR2: The student demonstrates the ability to identify and orally manipulate words and individual sounds within spoken words.

Identifies and produces rhyming words in response to an oral prompt and distinguishes rhyming and non-rhyming words.
Identifies component sounds (phonemes and combinations of phonemes) in spoken words
Blends and segments syllables in spoken words
Segments the phonemes in high-frequency words

Phonics: ELAKR3: The student demonstrates the relationship between letters and letter combinations of written words and the sounds of spoken words

Demonstrates an understanding that there are systematic and predictable relationships between print and spoken sounds
Recognizes and names all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet
Matches all consonant and short-vowel sounds to appropriate letters
Blends individual sounds to read one-syllable decodable words

Fluency: ELAKR4: The student demonstrates the ability to read orally with speed, accuracy, and expression

Reads previously taught grade level text with appropriate expression

Vocabulary: ELAKR5: The student acquires and uses grade-level words to communicate effectively

Listens to a variety of texts and uses new vocabulary in oral language
Discusses the meaning of words and understands that some words have multiple meanings

Comprehension: ELAKR6: The student gains meaning from orally presented text.

Listens to and reads a variety of literary (short stories and poems) and informational texts and materials to gain knowledge and for pleasure
Makes predictions from pictures and titles
Asks and answers questions about essential narrative elements (beginning-middle-end, setting, characters, problems, events, and resolution) of a read-aloud text
Connects life experiences to read-aloud text
Retells important facts in the student’s own words
Retells familiar events and stories to include beginning, middle, and end

Writing: ELAKW1: The student begins to understand the principles of writing

Writes or dictates to describe familiar persons, places, objects, or experiences
Uses drawings, letters, and phonetically spelled words to create meaning
Accurately prints name, all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet, and teacher-selected words.
Uses left-right patterns of writing

Listening/Speaking/Viewing: ELAKLSV1: The student uses oral and visual strategies to communicate

Listens and speaks appropriately with peers and adults
Follows 2-part oral directions
Repeats auditory sequences (letters, words, numbers, and rhythmic patterns)
Recites short poems, rhymes, songs, and stories with repeated patterns
Describes people, places, things, locations, and actions
Increases vocabulary to reflect a growing range of interests and knowledge
Communicates effectively when relating experiences and retelling stories heard
Uses complete sentences when speaking
Begins to use subject-verb agreement and tense correctly

Math

NUMBER AND OPERATION: MKN1: Students will connect numerals to the quantities they represent.

Count a number of objects up to 30.
Produce models for number words through ten.
Write numerals through 20 to label sets.
Compare two or more sets of objects (1-10) and identify which set is equal to, more than, or less than the other.
Estimate quantities using five and ten as a benchmark. (e.g. 9 is one five and four more. It is closer to two fives or one 10 than it is to one five.).
Use informal strategies to share objects equally (divide) between two to three people or sets
Sequence and identify using ordinal numbers (1st-10th).

NUMBER AND OPERATION: MKN2: Students will use representations to model addition and subtraction.

Build number combinations up to 10 (e.g., 4 and 1, 2 and 3, 3 and 2, 4 and 1 for five) and for doubles to 10 (3 and 3 for six).

GEOMETRY: MKG1: Students will correctly name simple two and three-dimensional figures, and recognize them in the environment.

Recognize and name the following basic two-dimensional figures: triangles, rectangles, squares, and circles.
Observe concrete objects in the environment and represent the objects using basic shapes, such as drawing a representation of a house using a square together with a triangle for the roof.
Combine basic shapes into basic and more complicated shapes, and will decompose basic shapes into combinations of basic shapes.
Compare geometric shapes and identify similarities and differences of the following two and three-dimensional shapes: triangles, rectangles, squares, circles, spheres, and cubes.

Process Standards: MKP1: Students will solve problems (using appropriate technology).

Build new mathematical knowledge thorough problem solving.
Solve problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts.
Apply and adapt a variety of appropriate strategies to solve problems.
Monitor and reflect on the process of mathematical problem solving

Process Standards: MKP3: Students will communicate mathematically.

Organize and consolidate their mathematical thinking through communication.
Communicate their mathematical thinking coherently and clearly to peers, teachers, and others.
Analyze and evaluate the mathematical thinking and strategies of others.
Use the language of mathematics to express mathematical ideas precisely.

Process Standards: MKP4: Students will make connections among mathematical ideas and to other disciplines.

Recognize and use connections among mathematical ideas.
Understand how mathematical ideas interconnect and build on one another to produce a coherent whole.
Recognize and apply mathematics in contexts outside of mathematics.

Process Standards: MKP5: Students will represent mathematics in multiple ways.

Create and use representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas.
Select, apply, and translate among mathematical representations to solve problems.
Use representations to model and interpret physical, social, and mathematical phenomena.

Science

Physical Science: SKP1: Students will describe objects in terms of the materials theyare made of and their physical properties.

Compare and sort materials of different composition (common materials include clay, cloth, paper, plastic, etc.).
Use senses to classify common materials, such as buttons or swatches of cloth, according to their physical attributes (color, size, shape, weight, texture, buoyancy, flexibility).

Physical Science: SKP2: Students will investigate different types of motion.

Sort objects into categories according to their motion. (straight, zigzag, round and round, back and forth, fast and slow, and motionless)
Push, pull, and roll common objects and describe their motions.

Physical Science: SKP3: Students will observe and communicate effects of gravity on objects.

Recognize that some things, such as airplanes and birds, are in the sky, but return to earth.
Recognize that the sun, moon, and stars are in the sky, but don’t come down.
Explain why a book does not fall down if it is placed on a table, but will fall down if it is dropped.

Social Studies

Historical Understandings: SSKH1: The student will identify the purpose of national holidays and describe the people or events celebrated.

Columbus Day (Christopher Columbus)
Veterans Day
Thanksgiving Day

Historical Understandings: SSKH3: The student will correctly use words and phrases related to chronology and time to explain how things change.

Now, long ago
Before, after
Past, present, future

Geographic Understandings: SSKG1: The student will describe American culture by explaining diverse community and family celebrations and customs.

Geographic Understandings: SSKG2: The student will explain that a map is a drawing of a place and a globe is a model of the Earth.

Differentiate land and water features on simple maps and globes.
Explain that maps and globes show a view from above.
Explain that maps and globes show features in a smaller size.

Geographic Understandings: SSKG3: The student will state the street address, city, county, state, nation, and continent in which he or she lives.

Economic Understandings: SSKE1: The student will describe the work that people do (police officer, fire fighter, soldier, mail carrier, baker, farmer, doctor, and teacher).

Economic Understandings: SSKE2: The student will explain that people earn income by exchanging their human resources (physical or mental work) for wages or salaries.

Economic Understndings: SSKE3: The student will explain how money is used to purchase goods and services.

Distinguish goods from services.
Identify various forms of U.S. money (coins, currency).

Economic Understandings: SSKE4: The student will explain that people must make choices because they cannot have everything they want.

Map and Globe Skills:

Use cardinal directions

Information Processing Skills:

Compare similarities and differences
Organize items chronologically
Identify issues and/or problems and alternative solutions

Motor Skills

Gross Motor Skills:

Walk
Run
Hop

Jump
Chase
Dodge

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