Goals

MATH GOALS

October:
Match one-to-one
Read numbers 1-10
Count forward 0-21
Count backwards 10-1
Recognize penny

November:
Count forward 0-35
Read number 1-15
Recognize and name triangle, square, circle, rectangle

December:
Count forward to 50
Concepts of greater than/less than
Generate and copy patterns
Understand each teen number as 10

January:
Write numbers 0-10
Count 0-70
Count back 15-0
Skip count by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s
Identify nickel and dime
Group addition number stories

February:
Count 0-90
Count tally marks
Identify quarter
Count on (various starting points)

March:
Count 0-115
Count back 20-0
Make and continue 3 part patterns

April:
Write numbers 0-20
Read 3-digit numbers
Recognize and understand ½

May/June
Begin to tell time (hour, ½ hour)
Subtraction story problems

LANGUAGE ARTS GOALS

  • FIRST SEMESTER
Identify upper and lowercase letters
Pre-reading skills:
letter vs. word
Right to left motion
Top to bottom
One-to-one match
Writing:
Begin journal writing-drawing, letter strings, invented spelling, conventional spelling
Speaking and Listening:
Follow Directions
Listen/Ask appropriate questions
Recites familiar poems, songs
Retells familiar stories
  • SECOND SEMESTER
Identify letter sounds
Begins to form upper/lowercase letters
Identify list of sight words 
Conventional Spelling of some sight words
Identifies some punctuation marks (. ! ?)
Emergent reading
Identifies Rhyming words
Generates Rhyming words
Growth in writing

SCIENCE GOALS
 
FALL:
Weather
Animal Coverings
Living/Non-Living

WINTER:
Weather
Animals Coverings
Matter
Push-Pull

SPRING
Weather
Earth Science
Animal Covering
Plants

SOCIAL STUDIES
Timelines
Needs v. Wants
Maps and Globes
Exploring the Past