The Creative Curriculum for Kindergarten Digital Sampler - Flipbook - Page 9
What are The Creative Curriculum for Kindergarten
Objectives for Development and Learning?
®
The 38 research-based objectives are the heart of our curriculum and define the path teachers
take with the students in their classroom. They will help kindergarten teachers focus on
supporting the development of the whole child as they plan each day and make decisions about
what to teach, the materials they select, and how they scaffold students’ learning. They inform
every aspect of teaching, include predictors of school success, and are aligned with state early
learning standards.
The Creative Curriculum® for Kindergarten
features objectives for development
and learning from birth through third
grade. Color-coded progressions enable
teachers to see children’s development
and learning along a continuum across
the whole of the early childhood years.
Kindergarten teachers can look ahead
to first grade expectations and beyond,
or look back at pre-K expectations, in
order to scaffold children’s development
and learning, as appropriate.
LITERACY
MATHEMATICS
15. Demonstrates phonological awareness, phonics skills,
and word recognition
20. Uses number concepts and operations
a. Notices and discriminates rhyme
b. Notices and discriminates alliteration
SOCIAL–EMOTIONAL
1.
Regulates own emotions and behaviors
a. Comprehends language
b. Follows limits and expectations
b. Follows directions
9. Uses language to express thoughts and needs
c.Notices and discriminates discrete units of sound
d.Applies phonics rules and knowledge of word structure to
decode text
16. Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet
b. Speaks clearly
a. Uses and appreciates books and other texts
c. Uses conventional grammar
b. Uses print concepts
c. Interacts with peers
d. Tells about another time or place
a. Balances needs and rights of self and others
b. Solves social problems
PHYSICAL
b. Uses social rules of language
COGNITIVE
11. Demonstrates positive approaches to learning
4.
Demonstrates traveling skills
a. Attends and engages
5.
Demonstrates balancing skills
b. Persists
6.
Demonstrates gross-motor manipulative skills
c. Solves problems
7.
Demonstrates fine-motor strength and coordination
d. Shows curiosity and motivation
a. Uses fingers and hands
e. Shows flexibility and inventiveness in thinking
b. Uses writing and drawing tools
12. Remembers and connects experiences
a. Recognizes and recalls
b. Makes connections
13. Uses classification skills
14. Uses symbols and images to represent something not present
a. Thinks symbolically
b. Engages in sociodramatic play
d. Understands and uses place value and base ten
e. Applies properties of mathematical operations
and relationships
21. Explores and describes spatial relationships and shapes
b. Responds to emotional cues
a. Engages in conversations
c. Connects numerals with their quantities
b. Identifies letter-sound correspondences
a. Forms relationships with adults
10. Uses appropriate conversational and other communication skills
b. Quantifies
f. Applies number combinations and mental number strategies
in mathematical operations
a. Uses an expanding expressive vocabulary
Participates cooperatively and constructively in group situations
a. Counts
a. Identifies and names letters
Establishes and sustains positive relationships
d. Makes friends
3.
8. Listens to and understands increasingly complex language
a. Manages feelings
c. Takes care of own needs appropriately
2.
LANGUAGE
The objectives cover 10 areas of development
and learning, including broad developmental
areas, content areas, and English language
acquisition. Many objectives also include
dimensions that guide teachers’ thinking
about various aspects of that objective
and help clarify what it addresses.
17. Demonstrates knowledge of print and its uses
18.Comprehends and responds to books and other texts
a.Interacts during reading experiences,book conversations,
and text reflections
b. Uses emergent reading skills
c.Retells stories and recounts details from informational texts
d.Uses context clues to read and comprehend texts
e. Reads fluently
19. Demonstrates writing skills
a. Understands spatial relationships
b. Understands shapes
22. Compares and measures
a. Measures objects
b. Measures time and money
c. Represents and analyzes data
23. Demonstrates knowledge of patterns
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
24. Uses scientific inquiry skills
25. Demonstrates knowledge of the characteristics of living things
a. Writes name
26.Demonstrates knowledge of the physical properties of objects
and materials
b. Writes to convey meaning
27. Demonstrates knowledge of Earth’s environment
c. Writes using conventions
28. Uses tools and other technology to perform tasks
SOCIAL STUDIES
29. Demonstrates knowledge about self
30. Shows basic understanding of people and how they live
31. Explores change related to familiar people or places
32. Demonstrates simple geographic knowledge
THE ARTS
33. Explores the visual arts
34. Explores musical concepts and expression
35. Explores dance and movement concepts
36. Explores drama through actions and language
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
37. Demonstrates progress in listening to and understanding
English
38. Demonstrates progress in speaking English
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