Kindergarten Goals/Lesson Plans 2011

Kindergarten Goals/Lessons for 2011

By the end of the Kindergarten year we are hoping to have accomplished the following things that I researched and put together based on my daughters age and grade.

Learns the Sight Words “The” and “You” and Reviews Other Words

Recognizes and Describes Volcanoes and Geysers

Acts Out a Character in a Dramatic Play

Adds to Five Using Manipulatives

Adds to Ten Using Manipulatives

American holidays

Awareness of others

Basic needs of animals

Basic chart and graph concepts

Basic human needs

Basic Measurement

basic platn anatomy

Basic problem-solving strategies

basic tools

Be kind and helpful to each other

Beginning experimentation

Beginning writing process

Begins to understand day, week, month, year

Benefits of fresh air and excersize

Calendar and clock

Can count basic change

Can cut on line with a scissors

Can Print All Lowercase Letters

Can Print All Uppercase Letters

Can retell stories in own words

Can spell familiar names (Dad, Mom, Conor, Tuda)

Can tell between liquid and solid matters

Can tell the hour and 1/2 hour times

Can tell time

Catches and Throws a Ball

Choral reading

Classification of living things

Classifies Plants and Animals

Common animals and plants

Compares objects according to their physical properties

Compares Objects on a Balance or Scale

Completes Projects Requiring More than One Sitting

Concepts of more, less than, same

Constructing visual images while listening

Cooperation in play

Copies (Mimics) Actions of Others

Correctly Uses a Video Cassette or a DVD and a Television as well as a CD Player

Correspondence of quantities

Counts 1-20 correctly

Counts by 2's

Counts by 5's

Counts Items and Sets the Table

Counts to Twenty‐Five Rotely / Counts to Thirty

Creates Own Stories With a Beginning, Middle, and End

Denominations of money

Describes Attributes of Common Objects

Describes the Antarctica Continent and Locates it on a Globe and Map

Describes the Arctic Region and Locates it on a Globe or Map

Describes the Tropical Rainforest

Diagram of home and school

Dials and Using the Phone Properly

Distinguish fantasy from reality

Distinguishes Between Real and Make Believe

Distinguishes Past, Present, and Future

Draws a Person Including Basic Body Parts

Draws or Copies Basic Shapes

Draws, Cuts and Glues in a Project

Earth as man's physical home

Earth, moon, stars, planets

Empathizing with characters in predicaments

Endangered plants and Animals

Estimation

Experience stories

Explains Who the Pilgrims Were and Why They Made Journey to America

Explores a Variety of Coin Combination's to Make 5¢ to 25¢

Explores effects of heat and cold on liquids and solids

Explores energy, force, motion

explores the meanings of key words in stories

Explores weight and length

Explores, Recognizes, and creates simple patterns

Exploring effects of weather on plants

Exploring light and sound

Exploring Magnets

Exploring Rocks

Exploring the feelings and emotions of story characters

Farm animals

Following and giving directions

Giving and Responding to 3 step directions

Group problem solving

Helps to Plan and Take Trips

Hits a Stationary Softball with a Bat

Holds crayons and pencils correctly

Identification of basic plant life

Identifies #'s 1-20 in order and at random

Identifies a Desert

Identifies Africa on a Globe or Map and Describes It

Identifies and Compares a Peninsula and a Gulf

Identifies and Describes a Duckbill Platypus and Wombat

Identifies and Describes the Anteater

Identifies and Describes the Macaw and Toucan

Identifies and Describes the Sloth

Identifies and Traces a Trapezoid and Hexagon

Identifies and Traces an Isosceles Triangle and Pentagon

Identifies and Writes Numbers (Numerals) to Thirty

Identifies and Writes Numerals to Twenty

Identifies Asia on a Globe or Map and Describes It

Identifies Australia on a Globe or Map and Describes It

Identifies North America on a Globe or Map and Describes It

Identifies One More and One Less for a Given Number

Identifies Squanto and How He Helped the Pilgrims to Survive

Identifies the Characters in the Story and Describes Them

Identifies the Continent on Which the Child Lives; Locates the Country in Which He or She Lives

Identifies the Coral Reef and Sea Anemones

Identifies the Mayflower Ship and Explains the Difficult Journey at Sea

Identifies the Missing Number in the One through Fifteen Sequence

Identifies the Story Setting

identify Foods

Imagination Art

Individual's role in family, home, school, and community

Introduction to number line

Jumps Rope

Keep your surroundings neat, clean, and organized

Know Address

Know Phone Number

Knows 5 physical senses

Knows basic computer terms as keyboard, monitor, mouse, space bar, return key, boot

Knows denominations of money and value

Knows difference between fiction and non-fiction

Knows Even and Odd Numbers

Knows Fractions ‐ Wholes, Halves, Quarters

Knows greater than or less than

Knows How and Why to Use 911

Knows how to take care of books

knows left from right

Knows Spanish Colors

Knows Spanish Days of Week

Knows Spanish Family

Knows Spanish Months

Knows the Days of the Week as well as Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow

Laces and Ties Shoes

Learns and Records the Stages to Becoming a Butterfly

Learns to Dribble and Pass a Ball

Lifestyles of the olden days

Light

Like and unlike plants

Listening to literature, music, poetry

Locates and Describes the Amazon Rainforest

Locates and Names the Countries which are the Neighbors to the United States of America

Locates and Traces the Amazon River

Locates the Rainforest in South America and Finds the Equator

Makes Actual Figures from Clay

Makes Introductions

Makes Predictions as to What Will Happen Next in the Story

Manuscript handwriting

Meaning of addition and subtraction

Meanings of holidays, traditions, and customs

Names and Locates the Seven Continents on a Globe or a World Map

Names the Families of Instruments in the Orchestra

natural resources to meet human needs

Need for rules

Nonstandard means of measuring

Number-numeral relationship

Nursery rhymes, fairy tales, fables

Observation as a scientific method

Observation of everyday, familiar things

Observes Own Backyard and Draws, Records or Discusses Discoveries

One-to-one relationship

Oral Comprehension

Oral Problem Solving

Orally practicing correct English language

Ordinal-cardinal relationship

Organizing ideas

Paraphrasing and summarizing

Performs Simple Measurement

Phonics

Plans and Completes Projects

Pollution

Possesses Awareness of the Environment

Posture

Presenting Show and Tell

Primary and secondary colors

Print Address

Print Phone Number

Prints upper and lower case letters

Read 50 sight words

Reads a Sentence and Draws a Picture

Reads and Spells Words Containing the “Sh” Sound

Reads Number Words

Reads Sentences and Draws a Picture

Recites 1-20 correctly

Recognizes #'s 1-20

Recognizes and Describes an Island and a Lake

Recognizes and Describes the Properties of a Mountain and a Valley

Recognizes Own Name and Can Spell It

Recognizes penny, nickel, dime, and quarter and amounts

Recognizes the Brass Family of Instruments and Names Two or More of the Instruments

Recognizes the Geometric Shapes of a Cube, Cylinder, and Cone

Recognizes the Percussion Family of Instruments and Names Two of the Instruments

Recognizes the String Family of Instruments and Names Two or More of the Instruments

Recognizes the Woodwinds Family of Instruments and Names Two or More of the Instruments

Recognizes clock as a tool to measure time

Relates the First Thanksgiving Celebrated in the New World and the Pilgrims’ Special Guests

Relating events and experiences using complete sentences

Relationship of the individual to the group

Remembering details in a story

Respect each other's property and his/her right to privacy

Responding to stories in ways such as music, skits, readings, and discussions

Retells Stories Using a Beginning, Middle, and End

Rhythms

Role play

Self-respect and self-awareness

Sequencing events in a story

Shoots Mini‐Basketballs at a Junior Size Hoop

Similarities and Differences between plants

Simple keyboarding skills

Simple tumbling

Sorts and Groups by Different Characteristics

Spell 50 sight words

Spend along time reading picture books

Strings Beads to Match a Pattern

Subtracts from Five or Less Using Manipulatives

Subtracts from Ten or Less Using Manipulatives

survival needs of plants

Tell the truth

Temperature

Ties Simple Knots and Braids

Treat others with respect

Understanding and appreciating other cultures

understanding terms of story characters, author, and illustrator

Understands a calendar

Understands Cause and Effect

Understands Concept of Maps

Understands Ordinal Numbers First through Sixth

Understands that the World is Made Up of Various Land Forms and Can Identify Them

Understands the Concept of the Sea and Oceans

understands the function of a librarian

Understands the Stages in the Growth of a Frog

Understands yesterday, tomorrow, and today

Unusual Animals

Use of an outdoor thermometer

Uses a Map to Trace Trip Route

Uses Computer Games with Minimal Supervision

Uses Mental Calculations to Add Numbers to Five

Uses Mental Calculations to Subtract Numbers from Five or Less

uses of money

Uses Verb Tenses Correctly

Uses Words to Settle Differences

Work and jobs

Writes as a leisure activity