Kindergarten Curriculum
Below are skills needed, with links to resources to help with that skill. We also encourage plenty of exercises and book work. Curriculum Home
Important: this is a guide only.
Check with your local education authority to find out their requirements.
Kindergarten | Counting
Count the items in a collection and know the last counting word tells how many items are in the collection (1 to 10)
Visually determine how many more or less; and then, using the verbal counting sequence, match and count 1-10
Use and understand verbal ordinal terms, first to tenth
Count out (produce) a collection of a specified size 1 to 10
Numerically label a data set of 1 to 5
Verbally count by 1's to 20
Verbally count backwards from 10
Draw pictures or other informal symbols to represent a spoken number up to 10
Draw pictures or other informal symbols to represent how many in a collection up to 10
Write numbers 1-10 to represent a collection
Kindergarten | Addition
Solve and create addition verbal word problems (use counting-based strategies, such as counting to ten)
Determine sums by various means
Kindergarten | Subtraction
Determine differences by various means
Kindergarten | Measurement
Name, discuss, and compare attributes of length (longer than, shorter than)
Compare the lengths of two objects by representing each length with string or a paper strip
Kindergarten | Time
Relate specific times such as morning, noon, afternoon, and evening to activities and absence or presence of daylight
Kindergarten | Geometry (Plane)
Describe characteristics and relationships of geometric objects
Sort groups of objects by size and size order (increasing and decreasing)
Explore vertical and horizontal orientation of objects
Manipulate two-dimensional shapes to explore symmetry
Kindergarten | Geometry (Solid)
Manipulate three-dimensional shapes to explore symmetry
Kindergarten | Pre-Algebra
Use a variety of manipulatives to create patterns using attributes of color, size, or shape.
Recognize, describe, extend, and create patterns that repeat (e.g., ABABAB or ABAABAAAB)
Kindergarten | Data
Help to make simple pictographs for quantities up to 10, given what one picture represents
Sort and organize objects by two attributes (e.g., color, size, or shape)
Identify more, less, and same amounts from pictographs or concrete models