Colorado Calvert Academy Kindergarten Virtual School
Kindergarten Course Materials
What Your Child Will Learn in Kindergarten
Reading
• Emphasizing phonics to teach short vowels and consonant sounds
• Logical/chronological sequencing
• Auditory/visual discrimination
• Classifying
• Rhyming
• Reading 20 phonics storybooks
Spelling & Vocabulary
• Identifying word beginnings and endings
• Controlled vocabulary of short vowel words
• Key words
Writing/Composition
• Developing fine motor control
• Option of printing letters, words, and simple sentences
• Use of graphic organizers
Grammar
• Developing oral expression
• Constructing asking/telling sentences
• Capital letters to start sentences and punctuation
Mathematics
Featuring Calvert Math
• Number ideas from 1 to 31
• Patterns, shapes, and understanding data from pictures
• Properties of addition and subtraction
• Problem solving
• Graphing
• Ordering numbers
• Matching sets
• Probability, time concepts
• Fraction concepts
Science
• Seasons
• Five senses
• Space
• Differences among land, air, and water
• Weather
• Plants and Animals
• Natural Resources
• Health
Technology
Application lessons, activities, and online interactive learning tools integrated with curriculum:
• Keyboard and Mouse basics
• Parts of a computer
• Introduction to word processing
• Beginning graphics skills
Poetry/Music
• Enjoying and memorizing poems, rhymes, traditional children’s songs
• Finger plays
Discussion
• Famous people and events (i.e., U.S. Presidents, Martin Luther King, Jr., Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, etc.)
• Where people live, families, communities, and animal habitats
Art
• Painting
• Drawing with crayons and chalk
• Clay
• Craft activities
All art supplies are included!
