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)
☐ Kindergarten and Grade 1 Worksheets
☐ Counting
☐ Visually determine how many more or less; and then, using the verbal counting sequence, match and count 1-10
☐ Kindergarten and Grade 1 Worksheets
☐ Use and understand verbal ordinal terms, first to tenth
☐ Definition of Ordinal Number
☐ Cardinal, Ordinal and Nominal Numbers
☐ Count out (produce) a collection of a specified size 1 to 10
☐ Counting Bugs
☐ Finding Bugs
☐ Fireworks - Counting
☐ Number Block Puzzles
☐ Number Blocks Freeplay
☐ Counting
☐ Numerically label a data set of 1 to 5
☐ Counting Bugs
☐ Finding Bugs
☐ Fireworks - Counting
☐ Number Block Puzzles
☐ Number Blocks Freeplay
☐ Kindergarten and Grade 1 Worksheets
☐ Verbally count by 1's to 20
☐ Connect The Dots
☐ Fill in The Missing Numbers
☐ Counting
☐ Verbally count backwards from 10
☐ Skip Counting
☐ Skip Counting Backwards (20 to 1)
☐ Draw pictures or other informal symbols to represent a spoken number up to 10
☐ Number Block Puzzles
☐ Number Blocks Freeplay
☐ Kindergarten and Grade 1 Worksheets
☐ Draw pictures or other informal symbols to represent how many in a collection up to 10
☐ Number Block Puzzles
☐ Number Blocks Freeplay
☐ Kindergarten and Grade 1 Worksheets
☐ Write numbers 1-10 to represent a collection
☐ Kindergarten and Grade 1 Worksheets
Kindergarten | Addition
☐ Solve and create addition verbal word problems (use counting-based strategies, such as counting to ten)
☐ Kindergarten and Grade 1 Worksheets
☐ Determine sums by various means
☐ Kindergarten and Grade 1 Worksheets
☐ Math Trainer - Addition
☐ Addition Worksheets
Kindergarten | Subtraction
☐ Determine differences by various means
☐ Number Block Puzzles
☐ Number Blocks Freeplay
☐ Subtraction Worksheets
☐ Math Trainer - Subtraction
Kindergarten | Measurement
☐ Name, discuss, and compare attributes of length (longer than, shorter than)
☐ Definition of Attribute
☐ Definition of Length
☐ Compare the lengths of two objects by representing each length with string or a paper strip
☐ Activity: Compare Lengths
Kindergarten | Time
☐ Relate specific times such as morning, noon, afternoon, and evening to activities and absence or presence of daylight
☐ A Day ...
Kindergarten | Geometry (Plane)
☐ Describe characteristics and relationships of geometric objects
☐ Pattern Match - Colors
☐ Shapes Freeplay
☐ Pattern Match - Shapes
☐ Sort groups of objects by size and size order (increasing and decreasing)
☐ Definition of Increase
☐ Definition of Decrease
☐ Activity: Sorting Shapes
☐ Explore vertical and horizontal orientation of objects
☐ Definition of Vertical
☐ Definition of Horizontal
☐ Three In A Line
☐ Four In A Line
☐ Zinlock
☐ Manipulate two-dimensional shapes to explore symmetry
☐ Symmetry Artist
☐ Point Symmetry
☐ Rotational Symmetry
☐ Reflection Symmetry
☐ Shapes Freeplay
☐ Activity: Symmetry of Shapes
☐ Activity: Make a Mandala
Kindergarten | Geometry (Solid)
☐ Manipulate three-dimensional shapes to explore symmetry
☐ Definition of Cube
☐ Definition of Box
☐ Definition of Cylinder
☐ Definition of Sphere
Kindergarten | Pre-Algebra
☐ Use a variety of manipulatives to create patterns using attributes of color, size, or shape.
☐ Pattern Match - Colors
☐ Pattern Match - Shapes
☐ Shapes Freeplay
☐ Patterns
☐ Recognize, describe, extend, and create patterns that repeat (e.g., ABABAB or ABAABAAAB)
☐ Pattern Match - Colors
☐ Pattern Match - Shapes
☐ Patterns
☐ Pattern Match - Numbers
Kindergarten | Data
☐ Help to make simple pictographs for quantities up to 10, given what one picture represents
☐ Pictographs
☐ Sort and organize objects by two attributes (e.g., color, size, or shape)
☐ Shapes Freeplay
☐ Definition of Attribute
☐ Choose the Larger Block Game
☐ Activity: Sorting Shapes
☐ Identify more, less, and same amounts from pictographs or concrete models
☐ Kindergarten and Grade 1 Worksheets
☐ Pictographs
☐ Definition of Less Than
☐ Definition of Greater Than