Kindergarten Curriculum

This section provides a summary of the key kindergarten learning objectives for reading, language arts, and math. A more detailed description of each subject is provided below, including links to detailed descriptions of the hundreds of learning activities. The Time4Learning language arts and math curriculum correlate to state standards.

Kindergarten is a year of highly visible progress in reading and language arts. The major milestones in kindergarten reading and language arts are:

Developing an awareness of letters
Recognizing that letters have specific sounds
Awareness of the relationship of “letters to words” and “words to sentences”
Developing a basic vocabulary set by listening to and identifying unknown words in stories
Recognizing basic sight words in text
Kindergarten is also a year of exploration and discovery of numbers. Major milestones for kindergarten math include:

Developing a strong number sense
Identifying numbers up to twenty
Expressing different ways to represent numbers up to twenty
Ability to sort and organize objects based on different attributes
Recognizing basic shapes and units for measurement, time, and weight