St. Paul Lutheran   School

 Kindergarten Topics

Religion

· Apply God’s love to their daily life

· Realize that God has called His children to be helpers that tell others about Jesus

· Understand that God’s blessings are all around them

· Realize that God is always near

Language Arts

· Match upper-case letters with the lower-case letters

· Begin to use initial and ending consonant sounds

· Read level appropriate books

· Decode certain word families

· Begin to understand story structure: beginning, middle and end

· Begin to recognize high-frequency words

Social Studies

· Develop an understanding of city/town, state, country

· Identify the four seasons and their changes

Science

· Observe and describe characteristics of weather

· Observe and describe the sequence of simple life cycles

· Discuss basic health needs of human beings

· State properties of objects

Math

· Sort objects

· Create Patterns

· Use numbers 1-12

· Calendars and clocks

· Measurement and Money

· Addition concepts

· Subtractions concepts

· Introduction of geometry and fractions

· Introductions of greater numbers

Sept. 22, 2017

What can my child expect at St. Paul?

· Christ centered instruction

· Learning centers

· Creative and age appropriate experiences

· Caring and loving atmosphere

· Well prepared for first grade and beyond (most students are reading by end of the year)

· Full day sessions.