Kindergarten
Kindergarten Curriculum Overview
Reading and Writing- Hominy Valley Elementary uses Wit & Wisdom, which is a comprehensive K-8 English Language Arts curriculum crafted to help students build the knowledge and skills they need to be successful readers, exceptional writers, and effective communicators. Students will build knowledge of topics such as the five senses, the seasons of the year, how the country has changed over time, and the continents. After learning their letters, students will begin to label illustrations with beginning letter sounds and continue throughout the year to write a paragraph.
Phonics - Kindergarten uses a program called Fundations that makes learning to read fun while laying the groundwork for lifelong literacy, through the systematic and explicit instruction of phonemic awareness and phonics.We begin with looking at each letter of the alphabet individually learning the correct sounds and proper letter formation. As we move through the year we will build on this knowledge teaching students to blend sounds into words, and form basic sentences.
Mathematics - The mathematics curriculum is organized into five strands:
(1) number and operations; (2) measurement; (3) geometry; (4) data analysis and probability; and, (5) algebra. Problem-solving strategies are embedded into each of the five strands.
Kindergarten standards include subitizing, adding and subtracting within 10, counting by 1s and 10s to 100 (including starting from any number within 100), recognize, write and decompose numbers up to 20, different story problem types, nonstandard measurement, and geometry and basic shapes.
Social Studies - The big idea in Kindergarten for Social Studies is “The World Around Us”. Students will identify and compare cultural practices of people in local communities and around the world, explain the need for rules and consequences, differentiate between needs and wants, distinguish the difference between goods and services, use maps and globes to locate places, identify physical features of places, explain why people around the world use natural resources, and exemplify ways that people change over time.
Science - The focus for kindergarten centers on students using all of the five senses to make observations of events in both indoor and outdoor settings that make up their world. Science Concepts: Plants and Animals, Use of Tools, Weather, Properties/Movement of common objects, and organisms.