Kindergarten

Demonstrates book-handling skills.
Distinguishes letters from words.
Uses pictures to predict meaning.
Recognizes high-frequency words.
Recognizes that pictures, symbols, letters, and words have meaning.
Knows the names, shapes, and sounds of the alphabet in any order.
Attempts to read a familiar story.
Retells a story.
Selects materials to read for pleasure.
Recognizes basic elements of a story (setting, character, and plot).
Links personal experiences to a work of literature.
Generates a list of words and ideas related to a topic.
Writes left-to-right.
Writes independently, using letters and/or pictures.
Draws or writes to show what has been learned.
Knows the difference between the spoken and written word.
Gives personal information (name, age, address, telephone number).
Connects beginning letters to the sounds they represent.
Listens and responds to stories, directions and speakers.
Speaks clearly to express ideas and needs.
Reads aloud with fluency and expression from developmentally appropriate material.
Composes simple sentences and stories.

Represents quantities with numbers up to 20, verbally, in writing and with manipulatives.
Uses cardinal and ordinal numbers to solve problems by comparing, by ordering and by creating sets up to 20.
Solves word problems involving simple joining and separating situations.
Describes, sorts, and re-sorts objects using a variety of attributes such as shapes, sizes, and positions.
Identifies names, describes and sort basic two-dimensional shapes such as squares, triangles, circles, rectangles, hexagons, and trapezoids.
Identifies names, describes, and sorts three-dimensional shapes such as spheres, cubes, and cylinders.
Describes the real world with geometric shapes using appropriate vocabulary.
Uses basic shapes, spatial reasoning, and manipulatives to model objects in the real world to build more complex shapes.
Compares and order objects indirectly or directly using measurable attributes such as length, height, and weight.
Identifies and duplicates simple numeric and non-numeric repeating and growing patterns.
Demonstrates and understands the concept of time using identifiers such as morning, afternoon, day, week, month, year, before/after, and shorter/longer.

Explores how gravity pulls objects to-ward the ground.
Recognizes the repeating patterns of day and night.
Recognizes that the Sun can only be seen in the daytime.
Observes that sometimes the Moon can be seen at night and sometimes during the day.
Sorts objects by different properties like color, shape, form and texture.
Recognizes that materials can be changed by cutting, folding, bending and mixing.
Investigates that things move in many different ways.
Observes that objects can be far away or nearby.
Observes that things that make sound vibrate.
Investigates that things move in different ways.
Observes that a push or pull can change the way an object is moving
Explains that living things need food, water, shelter and space to survive.
Recognizes that some media portray animals and plants with characteristics that they do not have.
Observes plants and animals, describes how they are alike and how they are different in the way they look and things they do.
Uses the five senses (taste, touch, smell, hearing, sight) allow us to take in and respond to information in order to learn about our surroundings.
Learns by observing, recording and sharing ideas.

Compares children and families of today with those in the past.
Recognizes the importance of celebrations and national holidays as a way of remembering and honoring people, events, and our nation’s heritage.
Recognizes the importance of U.S. symbols.
Explains that calendars represent days of the week and months of the year.
Explains that maps and globes help to locate different places and that globes are a model of the Earth.
Identifies cardinal directions (north, south, east, and west).
Describes and gives examples of seasonal weather changes, and illustrate how weather affects people and the environment.
Describes different kinds of jobs that people do and the tools or equipment used.
Recognizes that United States currency comes in different forms.
Identifies the difference between basic needs and wants.
Explains the purpose and necessity of rules and laws at home, school, and community.
Demonstrates the characteristics of being a good citizen.
Demonstrates that conflicts among friends can be resolved in ways that are consistent with being a good citizen.
Describes fair ways for groups to make decisions.
Develops an understanding of how to use a timeline.
Develops an awareness of a primary source.

Orange County Public Schools Wetherbee Elementary School