QUARTER 2

Language Arts:

• Reading:
  • With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
  • With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
  • With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each.
  • With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear.
  • Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
  • Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
  • Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
• Writing:
  • Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
  • With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
• Speaking and Listening
  • ​Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
  • Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification is something is not understood.
  • Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
  • Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
  • Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
  • Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.​

Math:

• Count to 100 by ones and tens.
• Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).
• Write numbers 0-20.  Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20.
• Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities.
• Given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects.  Use counting to answer questions such as “How many objects are there?”
• Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group.
• Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 when presented as written numerals.
• Describe measurable attributes of objects (length, weight).
• Directly compare two objects to decide which object has more or less of a common attribute and describe the difference.
• Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes and describe the positions of these objects using terms, such as: above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to.

Science:

• Identify ways in which some offspring are very much like their parents, although not exactly. 
• Identify similarities and differences between plants and animals. 
• ​Identify differences between living and non-living things. 

Social Studies:

• People observe holidays and celebrations in many different ways.
• Celebrations and observances often reflect historical events.
• Historical events can be displayed using tools such as calendars and timelines.