Kindergarten Winter 2019 Term One Overview

The overview will evolve over the term:)

Science
   What are humans basic needs?
Humans interact with matter everyday. 
   What is matter?
   How do humans interact with matter? What qualities do
   different forms of matter have?

Mathematics
 compare quantities 1-10, beginning with 1-5
 recognize that there are several ways to solve a problem
 continue to develop a sense of number i.e.: one to one 
    correspondence
 orally count to ten from zero and from ten down to zero
 begin to recognize that objects have different attributes

Language for social relationships

  Listens when someone is speaking 

  Initiates conversation 

 Joins conversation 

 Takes turns in conversation 

 Uses appropriate behaviours during 

    conversation

 Joins class and small-group discussion 

 Uses appropriate social registers for different  

    settings (e.g., playground, centres, circle time, 

    hallway)

 Expresses feelings in words 

 Uses social conventions (e.g., says please and 

    thank you) 

Language for learning 

 Listens when books are being read aloud  

 Listens in group discussions 

 Joins in during shared reading 

 Pretends to read books 

 Uses vocabulary from books 

 Begins to categorize items (e.g., zoo vs. farm 

  animals, winter vs.summer clothing)

 Describes items according to size, shape,  

  colour and function

 Makes connections to personal experiences   

 Retells stories (3–4 ideas) with a beginning, 

  middle, and end 

 Asks simple, relevant questions

 Responds to simple questions 

 Explains primary experiences

 Understands and follows brief directions 

 Provides directions for others (not always in order) 

 Follows classroom routines

 Language structures 

 Uses speech that is understood by most 

 students and adults

 Uses simple sentences

 Uses and and then as oral connectors 

 Uses  appropriate vocabulary  

 Controls regular past tenses 

 Uses personal pronouns appropriately (i.e., he

  she, I, me, they, we) 

 Understands and uses appropriate relational 

 concepts (e.g., over,

Phonemic Awareness

Hear a rhyme i.e.: cat and bat rhyme

Clap, chants, and sings syllables

Orally segment some one-vowel words 

Orally segment sentences into words 

Orally stretch some words into phonemes 

Orally blend some phonemes into words 

Alphabet Awareness


Recognizes most uppercase letters 

Recognizes most lowercase letters 

Recognizes most letter sounds

Begins to print some letters

Print Awareness

Has awareness of letters, words, and sentences