Standards of Learning

The following Standards of Learning are what is expected for children in Kindergarten in Virginia.  This exhaustive list shows what our curriculum addresses and that we meet or exceed Virginia SOL’s for our Preschool II classes.  Our children are going to be advanced and more confident Kindergarten students.

Lesson Plans/SOL

Oral Language

* Listen to a variety of Literary Forms

-Books at every circle time

* Participate in Choral Speaking

-Good morning song

-Treasure Chant

-Class Song

-Days of the week song

-Meal Song

* Creative Dramatics

-Housekeeping/Dress-Up

-Role playing activities

* Use Listening & Speaking Vocabulary

-We have the children tell their friends when they do not like something or if they are being hurtful

-Use 1-2 step directions when issuing instructions to the children

* Oral Communication Skills

-Class discussions at daily circle time

-We have family style dining where teachers engage in conversation at the table

-We teach them to listen to their friends or teachers and then they can respond

Reading and Literature

* Understand how print is organized and read

-Library center for book exploration

-Lessons on how to handle books (We have a check out policy so they can learn responsibility for books)

-Sequencing cards to teach left to right

* Understanding that Print makes sense

-Reading stories at circle time

-Drawing pictures and explaining what it is

* Basic Phonetics

-Teach the sound that each letter makes

-Letter of the week (What it looks like and what it sounds like)

* Comprehension of Stories

-We ask questions about stories after reading them

-Ask them to predict what might happen

Writing

* Name Writing

-Tracing names

-Independent opportunities to write name

-Case sensitive writing

History

* History relating to events, people, and places

-Learning how others celebrate holidays

-Martin Luther King, Presidents

-Different Holidays

Geography

* Relative location of people, places and things

-Up/down, near/far, left/right etc.

* Symbols

-Community symbols (traffic signs, street signs, etc.)

-Take walks to point out these things

Economics

* Basic needs vs. wants

Civics

* Understanding good citizen qualities

-Taking turns and sharing

-Classroom job board

-Respect surrounding

-Creating age appropriate rules and consequences

* Identifying patriotic symbols

-We do the pledge everyday

Math

* Students shall count forward to twenty and backwards to ten

-Counting during calendar

-Using one to one correspondence

-Count backwards from ten when timer is about to go off

-Sequencing cards (understanding first, next, etc.)

* The student will recognize a penny, nickel, dime, quarter

-United Way penny war

-talking about the value of each

* Geometric Awareness

-Know the basic shapes

- Geometric boards

-Pattern card/activities

* Probability/statistics

-graphing taste/testing results

-classroom voting during election time

* Sorting

-Counting bears, boys vs. girls

Science

* Investigate our senses

-Taste testing

-Feeling objects in mystery box

-Using our eyes and ears when going for a walk

* Life Processes

-Talked about our bodies and their needs during October

-Talk about plant processes during January

* Use magnets on a daily basis at center board
* Understand observation/investigation

-We do a simple science project once a week

* Earth/Patterns, Cycles, Changes

-Observe the weather each day at circle

-Schedule board in classroom

* Understanding reducing, reusing, recycling

-In April we celebrate earth day with planting

-Neighborhood trash walks, etc.

Computer/Technology

* Understanding basic use of computers

-Children manipulate the computers on a daily basis

-Understand the basic concept of a mouse, etc.