QUARTER 3

Language Arts:

  • Reading:
    • With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
    • With prompting and support, retell familiar stories including key details. 
    • With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
    • With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words. 
    • 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.
    • With prompting and support, compare and contrast texts on the same topic and characters in familiar stories. 
    • 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).
    • Decode grade level words and read high frequency words by sight. 
    • Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding 
  • 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, add details to strengthen writing in response to questions and suggestions from peers. 
    • 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.​
  • Language
    • Use grade appropriate conventions of standard English grammar, punctuation, and usage when writing or speaking. 

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.
  • Represent addition and subtraction in a variety of ways. 
  • Solve addition and subtraction word problems and add and subtract within 10. 
  • Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way and record each pair using a drawing or equation. 
  • Find the number that "makes 10" when added to a given number and record the answer with drawing or equation. 
  • Fluently add and subtract within 1-5.
  • Describe measurable attributes of objects (length, weight).
  • Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or size.
  • Identify shapes as two-dimensional or three-dimensional.
  • Analyze and compare two- and three-dimensional shapes and describe their similarities and differences.
  • Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components and drawing shapes. 

Science:

  • Identify similarities and differences between plants and animals. 
  • ​Identify differences between living and non-living things.
  • Identify different types of technologies at home, in the classroom, and/or in the world.

Social Studies:

  • Celebrations and observances often reflect historical events.
  • People observe holidays and celebrations in may different ways.
  • Point out and talk about objects on maps and globes (land, water, roads, cities)
  • Use words to describe location (above/below, near/far, left/right, north/south/east/west)