• ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN  LANGUAGE ARTS

   

  Reading

   

  1. Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development
  Students learn about letters, words, and sounds in Russian and English. They apply this knowledge to read simple sentences.

  2. Reading Comprehension
  In Russian and English students learn to identify the basic facts and ideas in what they have read, heard, or viewed. They use comprehension strategies (e.g., generating and responding to questions, comparing new information to what is already known).

  3. Literary Response and Analysis
  In Russian and English students listen and respond to stories based on well-known characters, themes, plots, and settings.

Writing

In Russian and English students learn to write words and brief sentences that are legible.

Written and Oral Language

Students write and speak with a command of Standard English and Russian:

• Recognize and use complete, coherent sentences when speaking.
• Spell independently by using pre-phonetic knowledge, sounds of the alphabet, and knowledge of letter names ( English).

Listening and Speaking

 

In Russian and English students listen and respond to oral communication. They learn to speak in clear and coherent sentences.

• Understand and follow one-and two-step oral directions.
• Share information and ideas, speaking audibly in complete, coherent sentences.
• Describe people, places, things (e.g., size, color, shape), locations, and actions
• Recite short poems, rhymes, and songs.
• Relate an experience or creative story in a logical sequence.

• MATH

  By the end of kindergarten, students understand small numbers, quantities, and simple shapes in their everyday environment. They count, compare, describe and sort objects, and develop a sense of properties and patterns.

  Number Sense

  • Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities (i.e., that a set of objects has the same number of objects in different situations regardless of its position or arrangement).
  • Understand and describe simple additions and subtractions.
  • Use estimation strategies in computation and problem solving that involve numbers that use the ones and tens places.

   

  Algebra and Functions
   

  • Identify, sort, and classify objects by attribute and identify objects that do not belong to a particular group (e.g., all these balls are green, those are red).

   

  Measurement and Geometry
   

  • Compare the length, weight, and capacity of objects by making direct comparisons with reference objects (e.g., note which object is shorter, longer, taller, lighter, heavier, or holds more).
  • Demonstrate an understanding of concepts of time (e.g., morning, afternoon, evening, today, yesterday, tomorrow, week, year) and tools that measure time (e.g., clock, calendar).
  • Name the days of the week.
  • Identify the time (to the nearest hour) of everyday events (e.g., lunch time is 12 o'clock; bedtime is 8 o'clock at night).
  • Identify and describe common geometric objects (e.g., circle, triangle, square, rectangle, cube, sphere, cone).
  • Compare familiar plane and solid objects by common attributes (e.g., position, shape, size, roundness, number of corners)

   

  Statistics, Data Analysis, and Probability
   

  • Pose information questions; collect data; and record the results using objects, pictures, and picture graphs.
  • Identify, describe, and extend simple patterns (such as circles or triangles) by referring to their shapes, sizes, or colors.

   

  Mathematical Reasoning

   

  Students make decisions about how to set up a problem:

  • Determine the approach, materials, and strategies to be used.
  • Use tools and strategies, such as manipulatives or sketches, to model problems.
  • Explain the reasoning used with concrete objects and/ or pictorial representations.
     

• HISTORY – SOCIAL STUDIES

   

  Students in kindergarten are introduced to basic spatial, temporal, and causal relationships, emphasizing the geographic and historical connections between the world today and the world long ago. The stories of ordinary and extraordinary people help describe the range and continuity of human experience and introduce the concepts of courage, self-control, justice, heroism, leadership, deliberation, and individual responsibility. Historical empathy for how people lived and worked long ago reinforces the concept of civic behavior: how we interact respectfully with each other, following rules, and respecting the rights of others.

   

  1. Students understand that being a good citizen involves acting in certain ways.
   

  • Follow rules, such as sharing and taking turns, and know the consequences of breaking them.
  • Know beliefs and related behaviors of characters in stories from times past and understand the consequences of the characters' actions.

  2. Students recognize American and Russian national and state symbols and icons.

  3. Students match simple descriptions of work that people do and the names of related jobs at the school, in the local community, and from historical accounts.

  4. Students compare and contrast the locations of people, places, and environments and describe their characteristics.

   

  • Determine the relative locations of objects using the terms near/far, left/right, and behind/in front.
  • Distinguish between land and water on maps and globes and locate general areas referenced in historical legends and stories.
  • Identify traffic symbols and map symbols (e.g., those for land, water, roads, cities).
  • Construct maps and models of neighborhoods, incorporating such structures as police and fire stations, airports, banks, hospitals, supermarkets, harbors, schools, homes, places of worship, and transportation lines.
  • Demonstrate familiarity with the school's layout, environs, and the jobs people do there.

  5. Students put events in temporal order using a calendar, placing days, weeks, and months in proper order.

   

   

• SCIENCE

   

  Physical Sciences
  
  1.Students learn that objects can be described in terms of the materials they are made of (e.g., clay, cloth, paper) and their physical properties (e.g., color, size, shape, weight, texture, flexibility, attraction to magnets, floating, sinking).

  2. Students learn that water can be a liquid or a solid and can be made to change back and forth from one form to the other.

  3. Students learn that water left in an open container evaporates (goes into the air) but water in a closed container does not.

   

  Life Sciences
  
  1. Learn how to observe and describe similarities and differences in the appearance and behavior of plants and animals (e.g., seed-bearing plants, birds, fish, insects).

  2 Know stories sometimes give plants and animals attributes they do not really have.

  3. Students learn how to identify major structures of common plants and animals (e.g., stems, leaves, roots, arms, wings, legs).
  
  Earth Sciences
  
  1. Learn characteristics of mountains, rivers, oceans, valleys, deserts, and local landforms.

  2. Llearn that changes in weather occur from day to day and across seasons, affecting Earth and its inhabitants.

  3. Students know how to identify resources from Earth that are used in everyday life and understand that many resources can be conserved.

   

  Investigation and Experimentation
  
  1. Observe common objects by using the five senses.
  2. Describe the properties of common objects.
  3. Describe the relative position of objects by using one reference (e.g., above or below).

  4. Compare and sort common objects by one physical attribute (e.g., color, shape, texture, size, weight).

  5. Communicate observations orally and through drawings.

   

   

   

• PHYSICAL EDUCATION

   

  The health curriculum encompasses building self-esteem and coping skills, building decision-making and relationship skills, and body awareness. Within the physical education program, students develop fitness and wellness, experiment with creative movement, play games and develop leisure and sports skills.

   

  • Movement Concepts
  • Body Management
  • Locomotor Movement
  • Manipulative Skills
  • Rhythmic Skills
  • Fitness Concepts
  • Aerobic Capacity
  • Muscular Strength/Endurance
  • Flexibility
  • Body Composition
  • Self-Responsibility
  • Social Interaction
  • Group Dynamics

   

   

• MUSIC

   

  Music education exposes students to a wide variety of experiences that help develop an appreciation of the arts.

  • Listen & respond to music

  • Learn to sing in pitch by ear training, solfeggio tones, singing, & games

  • Develop rhythmic dexterity by echoing rhythm & melodic patterns

  • Coordination from moving to music

  • Act-out songs

• VISUAL ARTS

  Artistic perception

  • Recognize and describe simple patterns found in the environment and works of art.
  • Name art materials (e.g., clay, paint, and crayons) introduced in lessons
  • Identify the elements of art (line, color, shape/form, texture, value, space) in the environment and in works of art, emphasizing line, color, and shape/form.

  Creative expression

  • Use lines, shapes/forms, and colors to make patterns.
  • Demonstrate beginning skill in the use of tools and processes, such as the use of scissors, glue, and paper in creating a three-dimensional construction.
  • Make a collage with cut or torn paper shapes/forms.
  • Paint pictures expressing ideas about family and neighborhood.
  • Use lines in drawings and paintings to express feelings.
  • Use geometric shapes/forms (circle, triangle, square) in a work of art. 2.7 Create a three-dimensional form, such as a real or imaginary animal.

  Aesthetic valuing

  • Discuss their own works of art, using appropriate art vocabulary (e.g., color, shape/form, texture).
  • Describe what is seen (including both literal and expressive content) in selected works of art.
  • Discuss how and why they made a specific work of art.
  • Give reasons why they like a particular work of art they made, using appropriate art vocabulary.