Trimester Learning Goals in

Kindergarten
Reading
Phonemic Awareness Skills
Students will be able to:
blend and segment letters;
identify letters matched to a sound;
count, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words;
produce a rhyming word;
isolate and pronounce the first, medial vowel and final sounds in consonant-vowelconsonant (CVC) words.
Phonics
Students will be able to:
read 30 high-frequency words by sight;
read texts at their reading level accurately and fluently;
apply Beanie Baby reading strategies when decoding words.
Parents, these questions may be helpful:
Does that sound right?
Does that look right?
Does that make sense?
Look at the word, does it look like?
Look at the beginning of that word, can you get it started?
Comprehension
Students will be able to:
retell a familiar story identifying characters, setting, and major events in a story;
make text-to-self connections;
compare and contrast the adventures of characters in familiar stories;
read informational text and identify the main idea.

Writing
Students will be able to:
work as a group to research and write an informative piece;
write an opinion about a favorite book and support the opinion with a reason;
6 +1 Writing Traits: organization, conventions, and sentence fluency;
correctly print many upper and lower case letters;
capitalize the first word of a sentence;
use some punctuation so writing is easy to read.

Speaking and Listening

Students will be able to:
engage in conversations about grade-appropriate topics;
listen to what a speaker says and then ask questions to gain a better understanding;
describe familiar people, places, things, and events;
express thoughts, feelings and ideas clearly.

Math
Students will be able to:
communicate mathematical thinking when problem solving;
using words, numbers, and pictures to show thinking;
use + , -, and = symbols in a number sentence;
count to 100 by tens and fives;
count forward from any given number;
count backward along the number line;
compare and order numbers;
recognize teen numbers at 10 and some more;
add and subtract within 10.

Science
Students will be able to:
recognize the role of bioengineers;
identify the basic needs of organisms and explain how different organisms meet
those needs;
use the Engineering Design Process to design a model membrane;
study weather patterns to make an educated guess of the forecast;
investigate the effects of different strengths or different directions of pushes and pulls
on the motion of an object.

Social Studies
Students will be able to;
give examples of conflict and cooperation among individuals or groups;
identify stories about past events, people, places or situations;
identify connections between who they are as a person and their place in the world;
distinguish themselves as individuals and recognize that individual people are part of
a group;
recognize the differences between needs and wants.