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Standard 1:

Students read and understand a variety of materials.

Kindergarten students will:

By the end of Kindergarten, students will be emergent readers with a foundation of reading

strategies that prepare them for reading at higher levels. This requires knowing:

a sense of story that shall include, but not necessarily limited to, students being able to:

- tell a simple story with a beginning, middle, and end;

- retell a known story in sequence.

concepts about print that shall include, but not necessarily limited to, students being

able to:

- handle books correctly;

- understand directionality of print;

- focus on word after word in sequence (voice-print match);

- use pictures to predict print;

- realize that print carries meaning.

phonological and phonemic awareness that shall include, but not limited to, students

being able to:

- recognize patterns of sound in oral language (i.e., rhyming words);

- follow written text when the text is read aloud;

- hear and repeat initial sounds in words.

some letter and word recognition that shall include, but not limited to, students being

able to:

- know letters in their names;

- know own name in print;

- recognize the differences between numerals and letters;

- recognize the difference between lower and upper case letters.

 

Standard 2:

Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.

Kindergarten students will:

relate a narrative, creative story, or other communication by drawing, telling, and

writing;

create a narrative by drawing, telling, and/or emergent writing;

create a message by drawing, telling, and/or emergent writing.

 

Standard 3:

Students write and speak using conventional grammar, usage, sentence

structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.

Kindergarten students will:

spell simple words;

apply letter/sound relationships as emergent writers;

copy the 26 letters of the alphabet.

 

Standard 5:

Students read to locate, select, and make use of relevant information from a

variety of media, reference, and technological sources.

Kindergarten students will:

create a message by drawing, telling, and/or emergent writing.

 

Standard 6:

Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience.

Kindergarten students will:

identify and compare characters, settings, and events in story or picture;

tell a simple story with a beginning, middle, and end.

 

Standard 1:

Students develop number sense and use numbers and number relationships in

problem-solving situations and communicate the reasoning used in solving

these problems.

GRADES K-4

In grades K-4, what students know and are able to do includes

1.1 Demonstrating meanings for whole numbers, commonly-used fractions and decimals (for

example, 1/3, 3/4, 0.5, 0.75), and representing equivalent forms of the same number through

the use of physical models, drawings, calculators, and computers.

Kindergarten students will:

using objects and pictures, represent whole numbers from 0 to 50 in a variety of ways

using two or more sets of objects, demonstrate which set is equal to, less than, or

greater than the other set

using concrete materials, demonstrate the meaning of wholes and parts (for example,

halves)

name pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and dollars

 

1.2 Reading and writing whole numbers and knowing place-value concepts and numeration

through their relationships to counting, ordering, and grouping.

Kindergarten students will:

read and write numerals from 0 to 10 in meaningful contexts

group objects into sets of ten

 

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1.3 Using numbers to count, to measure, to label, and to indicate location.

Kindergarten students will:

count from 1 to 50

use one-to-one correspondence to count and compare sets of objects containing 0 to 10

members

starting with any whole number less than 50, count forward to 50

use ordinal positions for first through tenth

sequence whole numbers from 0 to 10 (for example, 5 is before 7; 5 is after 4)

 

1.4 Developing, testing and explaining conjectures about properties of whole numbers, and

commonly used fractions and decimals (for example, 1/3, 3/4, 0.5, 0.75).

Kindergarten students will:

describe the concept of zero

 

1.5 Using number sense to estimate and justify the reasonableness of solutions to problems

involving whole numbers, and commonly used fractions and decimals (for example, 1/3, 3/4,

0.5, 0.75).

Kindergarten students will:

estimate a reasonable quantity for a given number of objects less than 20

describe a relationship between two sets of quantities with more, less, or equal numbers

of objects

 

Standard 2:

Students use algebraic methods to explore, model and describe patterns and

functions involving numbers, shapes, data, and graphs in problem-solving

situations and communicate the reasoning used in solving these problems.

GRADES K-4

In grades K-4, what students know and are able to do includes

2.1 Reproducing, extending, creating, and describing patterns and sequences using a variety

of materials (for example, beans, toothpicks, pattern blocks, calculators, unifix cubes, colored

tiles).

Kindergarten students will:

recognize, construct, and extend patterns in a variety of motions, colors, designs,

sounds, rhythms, music, positions, sizes, or quantities

 

2.2 Describing patterns and other relationships using tables, graphs, and open sentences.

Kindergarten students will:

sort, classify, describe, and order collections of objects in a variety of ways (for

example, sorts buttons into two groups and explains why he/she sorted them this way)

 

2.3 Recognizing when a pattern exists and using that information to solve a problem.

Kindergarten students will:

recognize when a pattern exists, describe the pattern verbally, reproduce that pattern,

and create a new pattern (for example, describes red, blue, red, blue as an AB, AB

pattern)

 

Standard 3:

Students use data collection and analysis, statistics, and probability in

problem-solving situations and communicate the reasoning and processes

used in solving these problems.

GRADES K-4

In grades K-4, what students know and are able to do includes

3.1 Constructing, reading, and interpreting displays of data including tables, charts,

pictographs, and bar graphs.

Kindergarten students will:

read and display simple picture and real object graphs

gather data relating to familiar experiences by counting and tallying

 

3.2 Interpreting data using the concepts of largest, smallest, most often, and middle.

Kindergarten students will:

use "more" and "fewer" or "most," "same," and "fewest" to describe sets of

manipulatives, pictures, or object graphs

 

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3.3 Generating, analyzing, and making predictions based on data obtained from surveys and

chance devices.

Kindergarten students will:

flip a two-colored counter or coin to generate and tally results

 

Standard 4:

Students use geometric concepts, properties, and relationships in problemsolving

situations and communicate the reasoning used in solving these

problems.

GRADES K-4

In grades K-4, what students know and are able to do includes

4.1 Recognizing shapes and their relationships (for example, symmetry and congruence) using

a variety of materials (for example, pasta, boxes, pattern blocks).

Kindergarten students will:

place manipulatives on pictures of shapes congruent to the manipulatives

 

4.2 Identifying, describing, drawing, comparing, classifying, and building physical models of

geometric figures.

Kindergarten students will:

recognize and identify circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, ovals (ellipses), and

diamonds (rhombuses)

using manipulatives (for example, straws or string loops), build circles, triangles,

squares, rectangles, ovals (ellipses), and diamonds (rhombuses)

 

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4.3 Relating geometric ideas to measurement and number sense.

Kindergarten students will:

measure the lengths of the sides of triangles, squares, and rectangles using non-standard

units (for example, cubes or paper clips)

 

4.4 Solving problems using geometric relationships and spatial reasoning (for example, using

rectangular coordinates to locate objects, constructing models of three-dimensional objects).

Kindergarten students will:

use geometric shapes to solve a problem (for example, use geometric shapes to create a

house)

indicate positions of three or more objects or pictures (for example, left to right, top to

bottom, next, last)

combine triangular manipulatives to make a square, and square manipulatives to make a

rectangle

 

Standard 5:

Students use a variety of tools and techniques to measure, apply the results in

problem-solving situations, and communicate the reasoning used in solving

these problems.

GRADES K-4

In grades K-4, what students know and are able to do includes

5.1 Knowing, using, describing, and estimating measures of length, perimeter, capacity,

weight, time, and temperature; and

5.3 Demonstrating the process of measuring and explaining the concepts related to units of

measurement.

Kindergarten students will:

tell time to the nearest hour, using an analog and digital clock

describe the units for measuring time

estimate and measure length in non-standard units (for example, use cubes to measure

the length of a hand)

estimate the measurement of weight by "heavier" and "lighter"

 

5.2 Comparing and ordering objects according to measurable attributes (for example, longest

to shortest, lightest to heaviest).

Kindergarten students will:

compare objects according to the measurable attributes of length and weight

order objects according to the measurable attributes of length and weight

compares and order various times (for example, morning comes before lunch)

 

5.5 Selecting and using appropriate standard and non-standard units of measurement in

problem-solving situations.

Kindergarten students will:

select the appropriate units of measurement of time and length

 

Standard 6:

Students link concepts and procedures as they develop and use computational

techniques, including estimation, mental arithmetic, paper-and-pencil,

calculators, and computers, in problem-solving situations and communicate

the reasoning used in solving these problems.

GRADES K-4

In grades K-4, what students know and are able to do includes

6.1 Demonstrating conceptual meanings for the four basic arithmetic operations of addition,

subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Kindergarten students will:

add and subtract whole numbers by combining and separating objects

draw pictures to form sets of up to ten items

 

6.4 Constructing, using, and explaining procedures to compute and estimate with whole

numbers.

Kindergarten students will:

add and subtract whole numbers by combining and separating objects

draw pictures to form sets of up to ten items