Grade Kindergarten English
Welcome to an exciting year of firsts in Kindergarten. Kindergarten is filled with many new and exciting experiences. Your child will be exposed to a variety of learning opportunities through play-based learning. Our kindergarten program has long-term benefits for a child’s academic and social skills, it can help them succeed in school and life.
Religion
The Profession of Faith:
- Express how God is our good and loving Father (Creator) as described in the creation story
- Identify Jesus as the Son of God
- Explain that Jesus’ death, resurrection, and ascension brings us new life here and in Heaven
- Identify Mary as the Mother of God
- Share what makes them special as a unique creation of God
Celebration of the Christian Mystery:
- Recognize the church as God’s house
- Describe Church as the family of God
- Define Mass as a time when we gather as a community with the Priest to pray, and to receive Jesus
- Connect Sunday (Lord’s Day) to the Resurrection of Jesus
- Connect the liturgical season of Christmas to the birth of Jesus
- Connect the liturgical season of Easter to the resurrection of Jesus
Life in Christ:
- Give examples of how they live Jesus’ New Commandment “Love one another as I have loved you”
- Demonstrate how we serve and help others
- Provide examples of how they say “yes” to God like Mary did
- Explore how being a friend of Jesus transformed the lives of these people: Peter the Apostle, Mary Magdalene, Joseph-His father
- Acknowledge the sacredness of the Bible as the Word of God
- Share how the parables and miracles of Jesus reveal His Love for us as His friends
Christian Prayer:
- Recite the Sign of the Cross, Our Father, Hail Mary, and glory Be
- Compose spontaneous prayers of Blessings and Adoration, Petition, Intercession, Thanksgiving and Praise as a way to communicate with Jesus
Language Arts:
Oral Language:
- Speaking and listening to express and inquire
- Developing vocabulary
- Making connections and asking questions
- Using meaningful syntax
- Beginning to demonstrate phonological awareness
Reading and Viewing:
- Engaging in reading or reading-like behaviour
- Connecting with prior knowledge
- Developing printing concepts
- Developing familiarity with the alphabet, alphabetic sounds, and common words
Writing and Representing:
- Creating messages (e.g. using pictures, symbols, letters, and words)
- Using invented spelling and word copying
- Printing most letters and simple words
Social Studies:
- Our communities are diverse and made up of individuals who have a lot in common
- Stories and traditions about ourselves and our families reflect who we are and where we are from
- Rights, roles, and responsibilities shape our identity and help us build healthy relationships with others
Science:
- Plants and animals have observable features
- Humans interact with matter every day through familiar materials
- The motion of objects depends on their properties
- Daily and seasonal changes affect all living things
Math:
- Numbers represent quantities that can be decomposed into smaller parts
- One-to-one correspondence and a sense of 5 and 10 are essential for fluency with numbers
- Repeating elements in patterns can be identifies
- Objects have attributes that can be described, measures, and compared
- Familiar events can be described as likely or unlikely and compared
Music:
- Singing (melodic scale, mass prep, fun songs with actions, dance game)
- Rhythms (echo clapping)
- Dance (folkdance)