Grade Level Concept Map
Campus: Kerr Elementary			Grade: Kindergarten		School Year: 2008-2009
	1st Six Weeks	2nd Six Weeks	3rd Six Weeks	4th Six Weeks	5th Six Weeks	6th Six Weeks
Reading	Listening, School Vocabulary, Environmental Print, Parts of a Book, Rhyming Words, Letter ID, Vocabulary, Purpose for Reading, Respond to Stories	Know Purpose for Listening, Use Correct Grammar, Concepts of Print, Syllables, Words Make Sentences	Compare stories, participate in group discussions, dramatize stories, sequence stories, identify initial and final sounds, retell stories	Interpret and evaluate information, speaking appropriately to an audience, Isolate initial and final sounds	Retell spoken messages, use letter sounds, respond to stories and texts	Ask relevant questions, gather information from various sources, draw conclusions, compare stories from other cultures
Writing	Practice penmanship, Record ideas using pictures and words	Write all letters, Use letter sounds to write, write left to right and top to bottom, dictate messages, write labels, notes and captions	Write name and other important words, generate ideas before writing	Continue building writing skills learned previously	Continue building writing skills learned previously	Continue building writing skills learned previously
Math	One to one correspondence, concrete representations	Ordinal positions, sequencing, sorting, predicting based on patterns, mathematical vocab.	Objects in a set (through 20), attributes of real life objects, counting to 100, positional terms, graphing	Non-standard measurement, more than/less than, model add and sub problems, temperature	Scale measurement, compare events according to duration, fractions (1/2), problem solving, technology to solve problems	Problem solving strategies, logical reasoning
Social Studies	Human needs, School, rules,  American beliefs, US/TX flag, pledge TX/ US, personal attributes, jobs	Knowledge of time and culture, chronology geology terms (near, far, etc.), types of houses, customs of communities, community leaders	National patriotic holidays, family customs and traditions, create and interpret maps	Historical figures, voting	Land forms, bodies of water, national resources, weather, technology in the school and community, technology past/present	Obtaining information through oral sources, main idea from oral, visual, and print sources, problem solving process, decision making process
Science	Equipment and Safety, Five Senses, Scientific Process and Questioning, Observation	Characteristics of Objects, Magnets, Communicate Findings, Record Observations, Properties	Weather, Seasons, Cause and Effect, Day/Night, Basic Needs, Problems and Solutions	States of Matter, Simple Investigations, Weather Changes, Heat Causes Change, Part to Whole	Plants, Living and Nonliving, Organism Dependence, Rocks, Soil, Water	Life Cycle, Conservation, Earth Day
Note:  the contents of this page may change during the school year due to variations in student progress.