Early Literacy Goals for Constructive Kinder Curriculum
By engaging in play and hands on activities, children will be able to achieve these goals at a pace that is natural and comfortable for them and their development.
Goals and Objectives:
Time Frame: Kindergarten School Year (August/September - June)
Time Frame: Kindergarten School Year (August/September - June)
- Reads logos and environmental print
- Identifies parts of a book
- Rhymes words
- Writes from left to right and from top to bottom
- Speaks in complete understandable sentences
- Communicates wants, needs and desires effectively
- Cooperates with teachers and peers
- Identifies upper cases and lower case letters of the alphabet
- Matches lower case to their upper case letter
- Knows and recites Alphabet
- Spells name
- Distinguishes words among sentences
- Knows sounds for letters and combinations
- Retells a story using own words and acting out
- Reads beginning books
- Draws pictures to represent stories
- Makes predictions about events etc.
- Demonstrates knowledge of beginning sounds by writing correct letter for picture
- Knows syllables in words and their sounds
- Makes up own stories
- Asks appropriate questions
- Prints letter of alphabet without a model
- States orally the days of the week and the months of the year
- Identifies primary and secondary colors and reads the words
- Understands and follows directions
- Completes worksheets
- Participates in circle time
- Role plays
Early Math Goals for Constructive Kinder Curriculum
Goals and Objectives:
Time Frame: Kindergarten School Year (August/September - June)
Time Frame: Kindergarten School Year (August/September - June)
- Patterning – AB, AA BB and ABC
- Identifies numerals 1-20 or 1-50
- Counts to 100 by 1’s and by 10’s
- Demonstrates 1:1 correspondence
- Completes 25 piece puzzle
- Builds with Legos and blocks
- Sorts objects by color, size, shape, etc
- Identifies and draws the basic shapes
- Recites days of the week and months of the year
- Labels sets with appropriate numeral 1-10
- Matches and coordinates written number to quantity
- Counts backwards from 1-10
- Recognizes coins- penny, dime, nickel and quarter
- Compares sizes- small, medium and large
- Measures self and items with non-traditional tools
- Divides objects into equal portions
- Recognizes halves and wholes
- Uses positional words such as left, right, longer, shorter etc,