Academics: Lower School
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Kindergarten

Introduction

Welcome to Life Christian School's Kindergarten Curriculum Page! Here at LCS, we offer our Kindergarten students many opportunities for growth and development. Kindergarten students gain experience with a variety of subjects in an age appropriate, developmental way. Our Kindergarten students are engaged in hands-on activities that are meaningful in a loving, Christian environment. Our goal is to produce life-long learners who know and love Jesus Christ.


Art

Goals: Life Christian students will be able to:

- Produce,
- Perceive,
- Understand, and,
- Evaluate art

Produce Art
Students will be able to:

- Utilize the whole paper.
- Identify and name primary colors.
- Identify and name secondary colors.
- Identify and use types of lines
- straight
- curved
- Identify and make the five basic shapes
- diamond
- triangle
- square
- rectangle
- circle
- Define texture as the feel of things.
- Identify patterns in various art works.
- Differentiate between order and disorder and how God created order.
- Understand and use vocabulary relevant to Kindergarten art curriculum
- Primary
- Secondary
- Shape
- Repeat shapes to create a simple pattern.

Perceive Art
Students will be able to:

- Recognize the characteristics of lines, colors, textures and shapes in
nature and in human creation, through exploration, observation,
touching and recall.

Understand Art
Students will be able to:

- Recognize that art expresses feelings or emotions.
- Identify paintings, drawings, ceramics, collages as art forms.
- Recognize, through the study of related art works, how artists use
the elements and principles of design emphasized at this grade level.
- Recognize that art gives form to imagination.
- Recognize that art tells a story.
- Recognize that art can be useful and decorative.

Evaluate Art
Students will be able to:

- Recognize how the elements of line, color, shape and texture apply to
the student and the student's environment and work.
- Respond to the qualities of art (quiet, happy, exciting), and translate these
into own work.

Apply The Lesson to Personal Life
Students will be able to:

- Participate in a school beautification project
- Learn that God wants us to long for Him as we long for a cold glass of water
on a hot day
- Share a pet as one of God's living creatures
- Wear a crown that says "God Created Me"
- Know the value of worshipping together with other believers
- Know good choices bring good results and bad choices bring bad results
- Learn everyone is tempted to sin, but God gives us the help we need to do the
right thing if we obey Him.
- Know accidents may happen, but sin is always a result of a choice we make
- Know that violence is the result of a bad choice
- Solve conflicts without physical harm to one another
- Learn jealousy hurts, but sharing helps
- Learn lies make things worse and to ask God for help when you are tempted
- Learn obeying your parents is a good choice
- Know all God's promises will come true
- Remember Jesus' birth can be celebrated the whole year through
- Know Jesus grew up to do his Father's work
- Know God promises to care for our needs
- Know God hears our prayers
- Learn God promises to help us do our best
- Learn God wants us to be nice people
- Know Jesus is loving and cares for others first
- Know Jesus is honest and wants us to follow his example
- Know Jesus tells us to forgive others
- Learn how to share what we have with others
- Learn Jesus wants us to tell others about God's love

Take Responsibility For Learning
Students will be able to:

- Set personal goals
- Brainstorm possible options
- Brainstorm possible solutions

Listen and View For Understanding
Students will be able to:

- Be attentive for short periods of time
- Look at the speaker
- Face forward
- Demonstrate appropriate audience response to speakers and performers
- Begin to develop skills in understanding the speaker's facial expression
- Ask for repetition, restatement or explanation when meaning is unclear.
- Listen to others without interrupting
- Sequence the events in a story
- Follow two-step spoken directions
- Begin to show interest in and consideration for thoughts and ideas of others.

Make Effective Presentations
Students will be able to:

- Take part in class discussions
- Begin to be aware of needs and interests of audience
- Listen to and gain information from viewing
- videos
- film strips
- illustrations
- teacher-read text
- Brainstorm on a specific topic
- Illustrate presentation in a variety of ways
- posters
- dioramas
- mobiles
- Face the audience
- Speak with enough volume to be heard by an audience
- Express ideas with complete sentences
- Sort and classify information
- Begin to stay on a topic

Language Arts - Written

Reading
Goals: Life Christian students will be able to:

- use a variety of reading skills and strategies to build understanding
- read to construct meaning from a variety of text for a variety of purposes
- read to understand self, others and the world
- use reading to communicate, participate, and achieve personal goals

Use Reading Strategies
Students will be able to:

- Recognize letters in the alphabet
- Rhyme words
- Know that print is talk written down and conveys information
- Read picture books
- Recognize common words in our environment, e.g. McDonalds, stop sign
- Recognize own name and other familiar words
- Predict which word might come next using prior knowledge, syntax or graphophonic clues
- Begin to memorize familiar patterns in text
- Use information in the text and pictures to make predictions
- Recall details
- Begin to develop a reading vocabulary
- Begin to develop reading fluency
- Listen to text being read for enjoyment
- Enjoy being read to
- Join in during familiar stories
- Choose books as an independent activity
- Know front/back of book
- Hold a book and turn pages correctly
- Know where to start reading
- Follow words in print left to right
- Discriminate between letter, word, sentence
Recognize the function period, question mark, quotation marks, exclamation mark, and apostrophe
- Be able to read some basic sight words
- Begin to use context clues, pictures, syntax, initial consonants to decode unfamiliar words
- Learn sound symbol relationship to decode words with short vowel sounds
- Retell a story in approximate sequence

Construct Meaning from a Variety of Text for a Variety of Purposes
Students will be able to:

- Begin to comprehend reading
- Begin to analyze and synthesize
- Begin to think critically while reading
- Begin to read to learn
- Begin to read to access information

Understand Self, Others and the World
Students will be able to:

- Begin to respond to text
- Begin to learn about other people, cultures and times

Writing
Goals: Life Christian students will be able to:

- understand and individualize the writing process, e.g., pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing and publishing
- produce effective text
- write in a variety of forms for a variety of audiences and purposes
- write with a variety of writing tools and technologies
- write as a member of a team (e.g., class, small group, pairs)
-evaluate the effectiveness of his or her own writing and writing of others

Understand and Individualize the Writing Process
Students will be able to:

- Share orally
- Illustrate and write using conventional and transitional spelling
- Share writing with others
- Accept help from adults and peers
- Share with a familiar audience
- Brainstorm for a special topic

Produce Effective Text
Students will be able to:

- Record ideas with pictures and words
- Show an awareness of beginning, middle, end
- Communicate own feelings
- Use appropriate words to express ideas
- Know writing is speech written down
- Write initial sounds correctly
- Use conventional and transitional spelling
- Leave spaces between words
- Write a simple sentence
- Show an awareness of capitals and end punctuation
- Begin to use punctuation and capitalization
- Capitalize the pronoun I
- Capitalize own name
- Begin to capitalize the first word in a sentence
- Begin to use periods and question marks at the end of a sentence

Write in a Variety of Forms for a Variety of Audiences and Purposes
Students will be able to:

- Begin to express ideas with simple sentences
- Communicate experiences by labeling or naming
- Experience different genre, e.g., plays, poetry, songs, stories
- Use crayon, pencil and marking pens

Write in a Variety of Writing Tools and Technologies
Students will be able to:

- Begin to work in a group
- Begin to participate as a member of the class team
- Offer ideas

Evaluate the Effectiveness of His or Her own Writing and the Writing of Others
Students will be able to:

- Listen while others share writing
- Tell what they like about the writing of others

Learn to Value Mathematics
Students will be able to:

- View themselves as mathematically capable

Understand Mathematical Concepts and Processes Algebra
Students will be able to:

- Use manipulatives to show equal groups
- Math and compare sets of objects to determine more, less, and equal/same
- Use a calculator and perform simple counting activities

Geometry
Students will be able to:

- Compare objects to determine similarities and differences by shape, size and position
- Identify circle, square, triange and rectangle
- Recognize geometry vocabulary such as lines, corners, sides
- Construct two dimensionals shapes using concrete materials
- Recognize geometry in his or her environment
- Sort and identify geometric solids

Measurement
Students will be able to:

- Make and use measurements in problem everyday situations (including calendars, clocks, money)
- Estimate and measure time in non-standard units
- Sequence events
- Record time to the hour
- Identify days of the week and months of the year
- Measure length (or weight) using a variety of units
- Estimate the measurement of objects (length, volume, height, etc.)
- Compare objects using attributes of length or weight
- Identify penny, nickel and dime
- Explore value of penny, nickel, and dime

Number
Students will be able to:
- Count objects in sets from 1 to 10
- Count by 5's, and 10's to 100 and 2's to 20
- Recognize, read, and orer numbers from 1 to 30
- Use ordinal number words, "first" to "fifth"
- Created and label sets to 10
- Write numerals 0 through 10
- Estimate, identify, and create a set with more/less
- Create and solve addition and subtraction story problems
- Explore addition and subtraction sentences to 10
- Begin to group and record tens and ones

Patterns and Functions
Students will be able to:
- Sort and re-sort a collection
- Identify the sorting rule
- Explore patterns with his or her body (act, dance, move, sing)
- Look for and discover patterns in the environment
- Duplicate and extend an establishe pattern of two and three elements
- Explore patterns using calendars
- Explore patterns using manipulatives (unifix, geoboards, pattern blocks)
- Create patterns of two and three elements

Probability and Statistics
Students will be able to:
- Collect and organize data using objects from the environment
- Organize objects in 3D charts
- Read simple charts and discuss interpretations
- Use sampling to gather data
- Create and interpret a concrete graph and a pictograph

Become Mathematical Problem Solvers
Students will be able to:
- Think, reason, and apply mathematcis in meaningful ways

Learn to Communicate Mathematically
Students will be able to:
- Verbalize and write their ideas, justify their thinking, and discuss alternatives