Smyrna Primary Kindergarten

Learning Goals 3rd Nine Weeks

These are the standards that will be taught in class .Some standards will be taught throughout the course of the school year. This
follows the Rutherford County curriculum guide for kindergarten.
Reading: Literature and Informational Text

Language:

Math:

With prompting and support

Retell familiar stories with key details
Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text
Describe the relationship between illustrations and the story
Identify characters, settings and major events in a story
Describe the connection between two individuals, events or
ideas in a text
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Actively engage in groups reading activities
Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text
support, identify basic similarities in and differences between
two texts on the same topic (illustrations, descriptions etc)

Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the

pronoun I
Print many upper- and lower-case letters
Write a letter to letters for most consonant and
short vowel sounds
Spell simple words phonetically
Produce and expand complete sentences in
shared language activities
Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs
Use the most frequently occurring prepositions
(e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with).
Understand and use question words

Identify whether the number of objects in one

group is greater than, less than, or equal to the
number of objects in another group, e.g., by using
matching and counting.
Compare two numbers between 1 and 10
presented as written numerals.
Understand addition as putting together and
adding to, and understand subtraction as taking
apart and taking from.
Represent addition and subtraction with objects,
fingers, mental images, and drawings.
Solve addition and subtraction word problems
within 10 by using objects or drawings to represent
them.
Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into
pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects
or drawings, and record each decomposition by a
drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1).
Classify objects and count the number of objects
in each category.
Classify objects inti given categories; count the
numbers od objects in each category and sort
objects by count.
Identify shapes as two-dimensional (lying in a
plane, "flat") or three-dimensional ("solid").
Analyze and compare two- and three-dimensional
shapes, in different sizes and orientations, using
informal language to describe their similarities,
differences, parts and other attributes.
For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that
makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by
using objects or drawings, and record the answer
with a drawing or equation.

Writing:
Reading: Foundational Skills:
Recognize that spoken words are represented by a specific
sequence of letters
Count, produce, blend and segment syllables in spoken words
Follow words from left to right and top to bottom
Understand that words are separated by spaces in print
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in
decoding words
Recognize and name all upper and lower case letters in the
alphabet
Recognize and produce rhyming words
Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings
(graphemes) for the five major vowels.
Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single syllable words
Read common high-frequency words by sight
Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding
Science:
Identify objects and materials as solid or liquid
Collect daily weather data
Explore different ways an object moves

Use a combination of drawing, dictating and

writing to tell about a single event in a story and
tell about the events in order
With support from adults, use information from
experiences to answer questions
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and
writing to compose an opinion piece of writing
(My favorite book is)
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and
writing to compose an informative/explanatory
piece of writing(How to ).

Social Studies:
Explain why people work and recognize different types of
jobs
Identify Tennessee as the state on which students live
Locate Tennessee and the United States on a map
Recognize and name the current President of the United
States and describe the role of the President
Participate in shared research projects about state and
national holidays (Martin Luther King, Jr Day, Presidents'
Day)