Grade Kindergarten English

Welcome to an exciting year of firsts in Kindergarten. Kindergarten is filled with many new and exciting experiences.  Your child will be exposed to a variety of learning opportunities through play-based learning.  Our kindergarten program has long-term benefits for a child’s academic and social skills, it can help them succeed in school and life.

Religion:

• Express how God is our good and loving Father (Creator0 as described in the creation story
• Identify Jesus as the Son of God
• Relate the Parable of the Found Sheep to our friendship with Jesus
• Explain that Jesus’ death, resurrection, and ascension brings us new life here and in Heaven
• Identify Mary as the Mother of God
• Share what makes them special as a unique creation of God
• Recognize the church as God’s house
• Describe Church as the family of God
• Define Mass as a time when we gather as a community with the Priest to pray, and to receive Jesus
• Connect Sunday (Lord’s Day) to the Resurrection of Jesus
• Connect the liturgical season of Christmas to the birth of Jesus
• Connect the liturgical season of Easter to the resurrection of Jesus
• Give examples of how they live Jesus’ New Commandment “Love one another as I have loved you”
• Demonstrate how we serve and help others
• Provide examples of how they say “yes” to God like Mary did
• Explore how being a friend of Jesus transformed the lives of these people: Peter the Apostle, Mary Magdalene, Joseph-His father
• Acknowledge the sacredness of the Bible as the Word of God
• Share how the parables and miracles of Jesus reveal His Love for us as His friends
• Recite the Sign of the Cross, Our Father, Hail Mary, and glory Be
• Compose spontaneous prayers of Blessings and Adoration, Petition, Intercession, Thanksgiving and Praise as a way to communicate with Jesus
• I’m a Gift from God program

Language Arts:

• Language and story can be a source of creativity and joy
• Stories and other texts help us learn about ourselves and our families
• Stories and other texts can be shared through pictures and words
• Everyone has a unique story to share
• Through listening and speaking, we connect with others and share our world
• Playing with language helps us discover how language works
• Curiosity and wonder lead us to new discoveries about ourselves and the world around us

Social Studies:

• Our communities are diverse and made up of individuals who have a lot in common
• Stories and traditions about ourselves and our families reflect who we are and where we are from
• Rights, roles, and responsibilities shape our identity and help us build healthy relationships with others

Science:

• Plants and animals have observable features
• Humans interact with matter every day through familiar materials
• The motion of objects depends on their properties
• Daily and seasonal changes affect all living things

Math:

• Numbers represent quantities that can be decomposed into smaller parts
• One-to-one correspondence and a sense of 5 and 10 are essential for fluency with numbers
• Repeating elements in patterns can be identifies
• Objects have attributes that can be described, measures, and compared
• Familiar events can be described as likely or unlikely and compared

Music:

• Singing (melodic scale, mass prep, fun songs with actions, dance game)
• Rhythms (echo clapping)
• Dance (folkdance)