Category: Kindergarten

Yesterday, I shared the Language Arts skills and concepts that should be taught to Kindergarten students . Now, let’s review the typical Math skills and concepts that are covered in Kindergarten:

• Understands that numbers represent quantity and uses them to do so.
• Counts and writes numbers, from 1-20 (and potentially higher).
• Counts out and compare quantities, usually up to 20.
• Counts out and groups objects in order to solve single-digit addition and subtraction problems.
• Begins to recognize and understand the meaning of the plus and minus signs.
• Uses drawings, objects, actions and sounds to represent and practice addition and subtraction.
• Practices beginning measurement and graphing skills, often through the creation of class-wide graphs, such as graphing favorite snacks, or how kids get to school.
• Learns about and begin to count to 100, specifically through a tallying of the days of school and a celebration on the 100th day of school. (Many but not all kindergarten classes do something like this).
• Creates patterns.

1. NUMBER SENSE & OPERATIONS
   – Model, count, read, write, and compare cardinal numbers to 100.
   – Estimate quantities
   – Create and model simple addition (sums to 10) and subtraction stories using concrete objects and drawings.
   – Model and demonstrate an understanding of the concept of whole and half
   – Matching quantities to numbers
2. PATTERNS, RELATIONS & ALGEBRA
   – Reproduce, describe, extend, and create patterns.
   – Count by 5’s and 10’s to at least 50.
   – Sort and classify objects by color, shape, and size; identify attributes.
3. GEOMETRY
   – Identify positions of objects in space (e.g. next to – above – below – on top)
   – Name, describe, sort, & draw squares, circles, triangles & rectangles; describe attributes.
   – Name and compare 3-dimensional shapes.
4. MEASUREMENT
   – Use non-standard units and appropriate language to recognize, measure, and compare length, weight, area, and capacity.
   – Demonstrate a beginning understanding of the concept of time (e.g. duration)
   – Identify coins (pennies, nickels, dimes, quarter)
5. DATA ANALYSIS, PROBABILITY, & STATISTICS
   – Collect and organize data in lists, simple graphs, and tally charts.
   – Demonstrate a beginning understanding of the concept of chance (e.g. heads/tails, spinner parts)

Here are suggested products to master the above Math skills that you can find on My Teaching Library…

Recommended Workbooks:

• Kindergarten Math Workbook #1
• Kindergarten Math Workbook #2
• Kindergarten Math Workbook BUNDLE
• Kindergarten Language Arts – Math – Science Workbook

Additional recommended products to master skills:

• Numbers 1-20 | Kindergarten Posters – Centers – Worksheets
• Math Counters and Ten Frames | Butterfly Themed
• Numbers and Number Words 1 to120 | Butterfly Themed Cards
• Math Visuals – Manipulatives Bundle | Butterfly Themed
• Math Posters | Numbers 0 to 10
• Numbers 1-10 | Marbles in a Jar Centers and Worksheets
• Ten Frame Sets | 5 Complete Sets
• Numbers 1 to 10 | Marbles in a Jar Centers and Worksheets
• Numbers Lapbook 1-10
• Trace, Color and Count Numbers | Shapes
• Tracing Numbers 1-120

Fun holiday and seasonal products:

• Christmas Math for Kindergarten
• Christmas Bundle for Kindergarten
• Kindergarten Christmas Activities – Numbers, Letters, Colors
• New Year’s Math Center Activities | Kindergarten | 1st Grade
• Mitten Themed Literacy, Math and Science Winter Activities
• February Math for PreK to Kindergarten | Valentine Themed
• March Math for Kindergarten
• March Math Center Materials
• Kindergarten Summer Skills Review Packet
• Christmas Math 1-100 | Worksheets and Activities
• Peppermint Candy Numbers and Number Words

The above products are not the only Kindergarten Math products available on MTL – Just suggested ones to cover and master needed skills!

Here are also some fun sample activities to do with them…

• Cook with Patterns: Patterns can be used in lots of cooking. Make patterns with cereal necklaces, decorate cookies, make layered sandwiches with bread or crackers or make simple patterns using your child’s favorite colored candies.
• Tell Math Stories: Use objects or even yourselves to practice addition and subtraction. If you have a bowl of 5 apples, ask your child to help figure out how many you will have left if you take away 3.
• Build Things: Use blocks, Legos or any other building toys to construct houses, towers, vehicles etc. As your child builds, ask him to count pieces, create patterns, and talk about the shapes.
• Take a Poll: Ask family members a question and create a graph of the answers using numbers and pictures.
• Find the Sizes in Nature: Go outside and collect things in nature such as leaves, stones and pine cones. After you’ve collected things, count how many things you found and then talk about their sizes, which are larger, smaller and the largest and smallest. You can even add together objects that are the same (for example, all of the leaves).

Do you have a sweet one ready for Kindergarten? Let’s review the typical Language Arts skills and concepts that are covered in Kindergarten:

English/Reading/Writing

• Develop handwriting skills: letter formation
• Learns all of the letters of the alphabet (upper case and lower case) and their sounds.
• Begins to “read” books himself, mainly from memorization.
• Recognizes several basic sight words such as I, my, you, is and are.
• Reads and listens to stories and then talks about stories, their plots, characters and events.
• Follows words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.
• Recognizes and can produce rhyming words.
• Adds or substitutes individual sounds in simple, one-syllable words to make new words. For example, replaces the “C” in “Cat” with an “R” to create the word “Rat.”
• Writes uppercase and lowercase letters.
• Writes his/her name.
• Writes some letters and words when they are dictated.
• Uses invented or creative spelling to write a variety of words.
• Uses conventional spelling to write some words (CVC and basic sight words).
• Writes, Draws and Dictates about a variety of topics, including his opinion, a description of something or a moment or event in his life.
• Use a variety of strategies to decode and comprehend text
• se picture clues to comprehend text
• Apply phonics skills
• Acquire and apply new vocabulary
• Practice writing literacy elements daily: consonants to correspond to sounds.
• Develop oral language: answer questions; share information
• Interpret and evaluate materials read to them

If you are looking for great resources for Kindergarten, I hope you’ll take the time to go to https://myteachinglibrary.com/ to see all that we have.

Here are some recommended ones (but not all that you’ll find)…

Morning Work for Kindergarten | 1st Semester

Morning Work for Kindergarten | 2nd Semester

Learning to Read | Sight Word Bundle

Kindergarten Language Arts – Math – Science Workbook

Kindergarten Math Workbook BUNDLE

Reading Log for Kindergarten | 1st Grade | 2nd Grade

Phonics Posters | Vowel Bundle

Learning to Print | Handwriting Bundle

Numbers 0 to 20 – Handwriting Practice

Handwriting | Learning to Write My Letters | Frog Themed

Alphabet Poster | Worksheets

Write Your Name Worksheet

Dolch Sight Word Flashcards Bundle

1st 50 Fry Sight Words Workbook

Here are also some suggested Kindergarten activities:

Sample Activities

• Read and Repeat: Have your child “read” her favorite book to you, using her memory, associations and clues from the pictures.
• Alphabet Books: Use drawings or pictures from magazines to create an alphabet book which has a letter and an object that begins with that letter on each page.
• Fill in the Blank: When you read a favorite picture book to your child and you come across a short word that rhymes or is familiar to your child because he knows the book very well, stop and let him say the word. Point to the word as he says it and spell it out.
• Act it Out: Act out parts of or the whole story of your child’s favorite and well-known books.
• Label Things: Create labels with your child for different objects in your house. For example, different books, places for toys, foods or objects in the kitchen, or clothes. You or your child can write the names of the objects and your child can draw a picture to go along with it.
• Guessing Games: Draw a picture and have your child guess the spelling of that word. Give your child a few letters in a word. For example, show your child “_AT,” and ask him to make as many words as he can with it.
• Create a Photo Album: When you take pictures of events or people ask your child to label the picture. Glue the picture to a piece of a paper so your child can write a description of the event, what happened, who was there, etc. If other people were involved in the event send them a copy!
• Have a Letter Treasure Hunt: When you are in the car, at home or in the store, ask your child to find certain uppercase and lower case letters. She can keep a list of all the letters she finds and she can write them down as she finds them.