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Today’s Date: 24th April 2024
Daily Assignments will begin on September 3rd for the 2013/2014 school year.
The following is a preview of: Kindergarten
Grade Level – If you are not on the correct grade level, please contact us.
Help – Read the help section to familiarize yourself with the system
Course Pages – We recommend visiting each of the Course pages. These are located on the right hand side of this page under “My Courses.”
School Supplies – We recommend getting the following
- Lined paper appropriate for your grade level
- Pens and pencils
- Colored pencils
- Crayons and markers (grades K-6)
- Paint supplies such as watercolors, acrylics, brushes, small canvases
- Drawing Paper
- Scissors
- Ruler
- Protractor (grades 7-12)
- Construction Paper
- Printer paper
- Word processor such as Microsoft Word
- Slide Presentation software such as Power Point
- Email account, network, or online storage/file system for sharing work between student and parent/teacher
- A drawing program such as Photoshop, Corel Draw, GIMP, or FireAlpaca
This Years Curriculum
Palomar K12 curriculum for Kindergartners is a rewarding experience for both students and parents featuring wonderful literature, science and performing arts. Below is an outline of the curriculum.
Reading/Literature K
- Ask/Answer questions about key details in a text
- Retell stories and details
- Identify characters, settings and events in a story
- Recognize types of text (storybooks, poems, fiction, etc.)
- Name the author and illustrator of a story
- Describe relationship between the illustrations and the story
- Identify the front and back covers, and title of a book
- Follow words from left to right and page by page
- Understand that words are separated by spaces
- Blend two to three phonemes into recognizable words
- Grade level phonics
Language Arts K
- Be able to use drawings, dictating, and writing to express their opinion
- Use drawings, dictating, and writing to narrate an event
- Describe people, places, things, and events
- Express ideas clearly
- Print upper and lowercase letters
- Use basic nouns and verbs
- Form basic plural nouns (dogs)
- Form basic complete sentences (The boy ran.)
- Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun “I”
- Recognize end punctuation (a period)
- Recognize the long and short vowel sounds
- Grade level spelling and frequency words
- Sort objects into categories
Math K
- Know number names and the count sequences
- Count the number of objects
- Compare numbers
- Understand addition is adding and subtraction is taking away
- Work with numbers from 0 to 19
- Classify objects
- Identify shapes
- Compare and compose shapes
- Count to 100 by ones and tens
- Write numbers from zero to twenty
- Solve basic addition and subtraction word problems
History/Social Studies K
- Follow rules, such as sharing and taking turns
- Learn about honesty, courage, determination, and responsibility
- Recognize American symbols such as the flag and statue of liberty
- Distinguish between land and water on maps
- Learn about north, south, east, west on a map
- Learn about what’s in a community (neighborhoods, police and fire stations, supermarkets, banks, hospitals, etc.
- Learn about the Calendar and days, weeks, months in proper order
Science K
- Observed, measured, and predict the properties of physical materials
- Plants and animals that inhabit the earth
- Earth is composed of land, air, and water
- Understand that the scientific progress is made through investigations and experimentations
Visual and Performing Arts K
- Dance
- Music
- Art