HIS Kindergarten Curriculum
Children are a heritage from the Lord. .......Psalm 127:3
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Bible
Instructional philosophy
As we study the Bible together, we discover and appreciate the lives of famous heroes who by example provide a foundation for living.
Children come to a greater understanding of God and His plan for their lives. Children are challenged to have a greater heart for the world and appreciate Gods power and love. Jeremiah 29:11
“I alone know the plans I have for you…”
Instructional goals
To help children appreciate the fact that God loves and cares for us.
To know that God wants to have a relationship with us.
To help children realize that they must experience salvation to be in right relationship with Him
To let children know that they need to hear the message of repentance, personal faith and acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord.
For children to know that after salvation, God's desire is that we be conformed to the character of Jesus Christ.
To let the children know that they need to be faithful to grow in knowledge and obedience to him.
To be able to apply Biblical knowledge to life problems experienced at their age levels.
To have knowledge of God and His works.
To establish a solid foundation for life.
To let children know that God has a heart for all people of the world.
To let the children know that Christians need to serve others and to share the good news of salvation in their homes, neighborhoods and in the whole world.
Instructional Objectives
Students will know that God created the world just by His word and learn the order in which everything was created.
They will understand that all people are sinful and need Jesus.
They will understand that they can serve God.
They will understand that every baby is important to God and part of His marvelous plan (including themselves).
They will understand the importance of a name and appreciate that they are precious and special to God and He wants them to be His own.
They will learn ways they can be kind to other people.
To know that God will take care of them in difficult times and to understand that without Jesus, we are lost and helpless.
They will understand that we should walk in God's ways Just as Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego did.
They will know Jesus is our best friend and will learn what makes Him happy.
They will learn that it is important to do their best in everything.
They will understand that God always keeps His promises and they should keep their word.
They will understand that it is important to obey immediately.
They will know that God leads and protects us.
They will know that Jesus loves us no matter what we have done, and will appreciate that God forgives and changes us.
They will know the Bible is God's word and will desire to choose the right way to respond to His word.
They will know that God answers prayer, and is worthy of our praise and worship.
They will understand the importance of obeying cheerfully with a good attitude and being thankful.
The students will know the way you get friends is by being kind, thoughtful and treating others the way you want to be treated.
The students will gain an appreciation and practice in prayer.
Students will be given an opportunity to accept Christ as their savior.
They will desire to do what God wants them to do.
They will know that God can help them with the problems they face.
They will realize that God has a plan for their life and they should follow Him, no matter what comes their way.
Resources
A.C.S.I. (Association of Christian Schools International) Kindergarten Bible.
Scope & sequence
1. God made my world
2. Adam and Eve
3. Baby Samuel
4. Baby Isaac
5. Baby John the Baptist
6. Mephibosheth
7. Jesus calms the storm
8. Jesus is the good shepherd
9. Daniel
10.The fiery furnace
11.David
12.The Angels
13.The shepherds
14.Simeon and Anna
15.Jesus and the children
16.Parable of the lost sheep
17.Zacchaeus meets Jesus
18.The sower
19.Peter's rescue
20.David's praise
21.Jonah
22.The good Samaritan
23.The ten lepers
24.David and Jonathan
25.Jesus and the Disciples
26.Jesus and His friends
27.The last week
28.Death, Burial, and resurrection
29.Samson
30.David and Goliath
31.Paul and Silas
32.Paul and the shipwreck
33.Joseph
34.Esther
35.Moses
Mathematics
Instructional Goals
Children become aware of numbers early in life because daily experiences involve various uses of numbers.
Instructional Objectives
Children will be able to,
1. Match sets and numbers, count backwards and by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s.
2. Order one and two digit numbers, identify equivalent sets, read and write numbers 1 – 30.
3. Compare sets of objects, numbers through 20.
4. Identify greatest, least, more, same, less, numbers before, after, between and on a hundred umber chart.
5. Estimate and count collections of objects to 100.
6. Identify ordinal position, even and odd numbers.
Resources
Saxon Math K 2003 – 2004
Scope & Sequence
NUMBER STRAND:
Concepts of Whole-Number Computation
The children will be able to,
1. Act out, draw pictures for addition and subtraction story problems.
2. Find addition and subtraction answers using pictures.
3. Combine sets by counting on forward and backward on a number line.
4. Identify one more, one less than a number and doubles.
5. Divide a set of objects into equal groups.
Fractions:
1. Identify one half and one fourth, divide a shape in half.
Money:
1. Identify and count pennies, dimes, nickels, quarters and one dollar bills.
2. Write money amounts using cent symbol (¢).
3. Select coins for a given amount.
GEOMETRY AND MEASUREMENT STRAND
Geometry and Spatial Relationships
1. Identify, sort and compare geometric shapes and common geometric solids.
2. Make, cover, copy designs using pattern blocks, geoboard, tangrams.
3. Explore slides, turns, flips (transformations) and create congruent shapes and designs.
4. Identify similar shapes, symmetry and create symmetrical designs.
5. Use positional words and phrases, identify right and left and solve spatial problems.
MEASUREMENT
Time and Calendar
1. Identify dates, today, yesterday, tomorrow the days of the week and months of the year.
2. Identify seasons, morning, afternoon, evening and night.
Measurement
1. Tell and show time to the hour, identify which of two events takes more or less time.
Temperature
1. Identify hot and cold objects.
Linear Measure
1. Compare, order objects by length, estimate, measure lengths, distance using non-standard units.
2. Measure length using standard units (inches).
3. Order objects by height and use indirect comparisons to compare the heights and lengths of
objects.
Weight (Mass)
1. Compare and order objects by weight weigh using nonstandard units.
Capacity (Volume)
1. Compare, measure the capacity of containers using nonstandard units.
2. Identify quarts – use a one cup measuring cup, follow a recipe and measure.
Area
1. Compare and order objects by size.
DATA ANALYSIS, STATISTICS, AND PROBABILITY STRAND
1. Sort objects and identify a sorting rule.
2. Graph a picture on a pictograph and make a real graph.
3. Identify most fewest, same on a graph and record data on a chart.
4. Determine questions for a survey and identify range and mode on a graph.
Probability
1. Describe the likelihood of an event.
PATTERNS, ALGEBRA, AND FUNCTIONS STRAND
Patterns, Algebra, and Functions
1. Identify, read and extend color patterns and shape patterns.
2. Identify the missing shape in a matrix and the missing number in a sequence.
3. Identify, extend and create sound and movement patterns.
4. Know that a symbol can be used to stand for a missing number in a sequence.
Phonics
Instructional Philosophy
The subject of language is a very important element of study. In order to fulfil the command of the Lord in Mark 16:15----“go out and preach to all nations and make them my disciples….”This can be accomplished through communication of which Language is a vital. In 1 Corinthians 14:10, it says,”undoubtedly there are all sorts of languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.”
Instructional goals
The overall goal of promoting Phonics and language skills at this level has the following subgoals.
-to know and try to form all the 26 letters of the alphabet
-to develop ‘alphabetic principle’ where letters correspond to sounds and later can match sound to letters
to realize there is a relationship between oral and written versions of words
-awareness that print and symbols in their environments convey meaning,
-to help children recognize that what is sad can be written and read,
-to understand left to right directionality,
-to frequently code or spell accurately the initial and final sounds in words,
-to develop an interest in participating in the explanation of patterns, sounds and rhymes of the English language during listening, speaking and shared reading and writing activities,
Instructional Objectives
The students will:
1. Know all the letter names and sounds
2. Recognize rhyming words
3. Be able to read words with one vowel
4. Be able to apply the two vowel rule to read two vowel words
5. Comprehend what is read
6. Be able to listen to stories, and then respond verbally or through art, writing, and/ or dramatization.
7. Expand oral language skills when given opportunity
8. Listen and respond to children literature
9. Build reading and writing concepts, skills and strategies
10. Be able to use simple punctuation marks
Resources
Textbooks
Letters and Sounds
A Beka Book 2000
My Blend and Word Book
A Beka 2000
I learn to read A, B, C, and D
A Beka 2000/2
Reading for fun (enrichment Library) 1979
Basic phonics flashcards,
Basic phonics Blend cards A, and B
Basic phonics charts
Scope & sequence
Names and sounds of each of the 26 letters.
Short and long vowel sounds
Sounding initial and final consonants in words
Blending a consonant with a vowel
Sounding blends and one-vowel words (using one vowel rule)
Developing reading circles
Marking short vowels and reading words
Reading short sentence with a few punctuation’s in mind, full stop, comma, question and exclamation marks
Rhyming words
Reciting poems and rhymes
Two-vowel rule, marking long, silent and short vowels
Reading short stories
Building speed in reading
Increasing smoothness and speed in reading
Science
Instructional Philosophy
As we study God’s world, we see that God has a plan for each part of His creation
and that He not only made each living thing, but He also cares for it. God’s world
stimulates children’s interest in the world that God has made for them.
Psalm 135:6-7 says the Lord does whatever pleases Him…He makes clouds rise from the
ends of the earth and sends lightning with rain and brings out the wind from His
storehouse. Mathew 6:26 Look at the birds of the air, they do not sow…your heavenly
father feeds them.
Instructional Goals
Science in Kindergarten begins to satisfy the natural curiosity of young minds about the wonders of the world around them.
Basic scientific terms, facts, concepts and principles learnt help students understand the daily workings of God.
Process skills are developed that help students explain scientific phenomena,
Thinking skills are developed too as students try to interpret results from experiments and observations.
Students discover that God has a plan for each part of His creation, and not only in creating but in taking care of them too.
Instructional Objectives
The student will
1. Appreciate the fact hat everything that is around we have because of God’s goodness
2. Know that God planned for us to have senses that help us learn more about His world.
3. Know that God made each child different
4. Know that different activities change as seasons change.
5. Know that God has a plan for taking care of each and everything He has made.
Resources
Textbook: God’s world. A Beka Book science series, 1999
Scope and sequence
God’s plan for me
God’s plan for weather,
God’s plan for seasons,
God’s plan for seeds,
God’s plan for animals,
God’s plan for the seashore.
Social Studies
Instructional philosophy
As we study the world around us, we realize the beautiful world the Lord created
and the different seasons, then we think about Joseph's story, " during the seven
years of abundance, the land produced plentifully. Joseph collected all the food
produced in Egypt and stored it in the cities..." Genesis 41:47.
Instructional goals
To help the children value the fact that they are unique and that each one of them belongs to a family.
To help children realize that they grow and change and so do their emotions.
Help the children know that neighborhoods are made of homes and different buildings in the vicinity, and their houses are part of their neighborhoods.
Find out about the different jobs people do, like doctors, policemen, postmasters' etc.
Learn safety rules at home, on the roads and at school.
Children get to learn the different modes of transport and communication.
Children learn that food comes from different places like farms, gardens before it gets to the grocery stores and on to their tables.
Help the children learn the benefits of eating right.
See the differences and similarities between living long ago and living now.
Learn about several environments, different landforms, weather, and water bodies, and their effect on people.
To let children know that different people have different special holidays that are important to them
Instructional Objectives
The students will.
1. Broaden their understanding of the world and their place in it.
2. Be able to tell time using past, present, future, now, then, after, days of the week, months of the year, seasons of the year etc.
3. Be able to name, list, and describe events, people, and places.
4. Be able to put events in order.
5. Be introduced to good behavior by learning to share, take turns, to respect the rights of others, and to take care of themselves and their possessions.
6. Learn to look outside their own experiences to other places and other times. Children can identify the differences and similarities between themselves and other people.
7. Discover that all people need love, nourishment, shelter and clothing.
8. Be able to identify similarities in people, and they will get to know and respect cultural differences and learn about the way people live, work, have fun, celebrate special holidays.
9. Gain a better appreciation of their own lives by considering what it would have been like to live long ago.
10. Be able to show respect for opinions and values of others.
Resources
Heath Social Studies Kindergarten 1991 By D.C. Heath and company
Scope and sequence
Friends and families
Our neighborhood
Neighborhood workers
Getting around
Food for our table
Living long ago
Places near and far
Rain, sun, and snow
Special days.
Children are prepared for lifelong active learning and they broaden their knowledge of the world around them.
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