Grade guides · Usually ages 5 and 6

What children usually learn in Kindergarten

What the year usually covers, subject by subject, in our own words from the curriculum you choose, with games that practise it.

Curriculum: United States · Ontario · British Columbia · England

Math

  • Counting to 100 in ones and tens, and counting out up to 20 things K.CC
  • Comparing two numbers up to 10, and two groups K.CC
  • Adding and taking away within 10, and the pairs that make 10 K.OA
  • Seeing 11 to 19 as ten and some more K.NBT
  • Comparing length and weight, and sorting things into groups and counting them K.MD
  • Naming flat and solid shapes, and building them K.G
  • Saying how they worked something out Mathematical Practice 3

Practise it with

Reading

  • Rhymes, syllables, and the separate sounds in short words RF.K.2
  • Every letter and its main sound, reading simple words, and common words on sight RF.K.1, RF.K.3
  • Retelling a story with its characters and what happened RL.K.2, RL.K.3
  • Asking and answering questions about an information book RI.K.1
  • Drawing, telling and writing to say what happened or what they think W.K.1 to W.K.3
  • Joining in a conversation, and asking for help when they need it SL.K.1

Practise it with

Science

  • Pushes and pulls, and how they change the way a thing moves K-PS2
  • The sun warming the ground, and making shade K-PS3
  • What plants and animals, people too, need to live K-LS1
  • Weather over days and seasons, watched and recorded K-ESS2
  • How living things change where they live, and how people can look after it K-ESS2, K-ESS3
  • Drawing and building a simple answer to a problem K-2-ETS1

Practise it with

Geography

  • Words for where things are, and a simple map of a room or a garden D2.Geo, K-2
  • Home, street and town, and how each fits inside the next D2.Geo, K-2
  • How weather and seasons change what people wear and do D2.Geo, K-2
  • Landmarks and routes near home D2.Geo, K-2
  • Land and water on a globe, and that the world has many places D2.Geo, K-2

Practise it with

History

  • First, next and last, in their own day and in a story D2.His, K-2
  • The days of the week, and things that happen every year D2.His, K-2
  • How things were when the grown-ups they know were small D2.His, K-2
  • Rules at home and with others, and why there are rules D2.Civ, K-2
  • What an old object tells about the past D2.His, K-2

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Where this comes from

Written in our own words from the documents below. It says what the year usually covers; it is not the official text, which the curriculum's own pages hold.

  • Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (2010), by National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers
  • Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy (2010), by National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers
  • Next Generation Science Standards (2013), by NGSS Lead States
  • College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards (2013), by National Council for the Social Studies

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