KINDERGARTEN
CURRICULUM
Religion
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Creation, Jesus and God’s family
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Knowledge of the Faith
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Mass and Sacramentals
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Right from wrong
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Teaching prayers
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Life, community, history of the Church
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Jesus’ mission on Earth
Language Arts
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Phonics
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Reading
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Grammar
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Handwriting
Social Studies
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Introduction to the child’s place in the family, Church and the world
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Rights and responsibilities as a creation of God
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People and events in history
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Introduction to maps
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Community helpers
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Introduction to needs and wants within a family
Science
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Forces and Interactions- push and pull
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Ecosystems- plant and animals and their environments
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Weather and Climate
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Introduction to engineering design
Math
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Counting and cardinality
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Number names and sequence
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Count to tell the number of objects
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Compare numbers
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Operations and Algebraic Thinking
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Understand addition as putting together and adding to
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Understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from
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Number and Operations in Base Ten
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Work with numbers 11-19 to gain foundations for place value
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Measurement and Data
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Describe and compare
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Classify and count objects
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Geometry
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Identify and describe shapes
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Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes
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Performance Objectives
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Make sense of problems and find solutions
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Reason abstractly and quantitatively
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Construct arguments and critique the reasoning of others
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Model with mathematics
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Use math tools
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Attend to precision
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Look for and make use of structure
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Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning
Art
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Introduction to art materials and how to safely use them
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Introduction to creativity as a gift from God
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Introduction to understanding a variety of visual arts
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Participate in the visual arts
P.E.
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Introduction to motor skills and movement patterns
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Perform movement with music
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Personal and general space
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Health
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Sharing space and following rules
Music
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Music
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Introduction to rhythm and counting beats
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Introduction to a variety of kinds of music including liturgical music