TK Grade Curriculum Overview

March 12, 2021

Core Knowledge at a Glance

Transitional Kindergarten

Language Art/English
1. Upper and Lower Case Letter Recognition
2. Letter Sounds & Phonics
3. Enhancing Vocabulary
4. Rhyming Words & Opposite Words
5. Share-Time
6. Sight Words
7. Literature: Stories: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poems, Fairy-Tales, Fables, and Folk-Lore

History and Geography
World
1. Types of Land and Water Sources
2. Planet Earth and Space
3. Children’s Address, City and State
4. Jungle, Desert, Arctic, Forest, City, etc.
American
1. American Holidays
2. Children round the World
3. Native Americans and Pilgrims
4. Our Flag

Visual Arts
1. Applying Art skills with Fine Motor Development
2. Viewing different Pictures of Art
3. Working with a variety of Mediums
4. Making Flat and 3 Dimensional art
5. Examining Colors and Textures
6. Free Art and Directed

Music
1. Singing
2. Dancing with Rhythm and Movements
3. Using Basic Instruments
4. Voice Tones and Projection

Mathematics
1. Writing Numbers 1-20
2. Counting 1-100
3. Patterns
4. Calendar
5. Shapes
6. Grouping
7. Matching
8. Basic Graphs
9. Recognizing Same and Different
10. Rote Counting
11. More or Less
12. Basic Addition
13. Dot to Dot
14. Sequencing by
15. Size or Order

Science
1. Our Five Senses
2. Our Bodies and what’s Inside
3. Eye Colors and Parts
4. Parts of a Plant
5. Animals and Their Habitats
6. Weather and Seasons
7. Planets and Solar System
8. Daytime and Nighttime
9. Insects
10. Ocean Life
11. Human Growth Stages; Infant-Adult
12. Dinosaurs

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