Kindergarten Curriculum Overview

Language Arts

• Recognizing and naming all uppercase and lowercase letters
• Mastery of letter - sound relationships
• Blending vowels and consonants
• Learn vowel rules
• Introduction to sight words
• Read and write 3-5 letter words
• Comprehension of vocabulary and concept development
• Identifying the basic facts and ideas in what children read, hear, and view
• Writing uppercase and lowercase letter of alphabet independently
• Recognize and use complete, coherent sentences
• Spell independently
• Enjoy independently reading simple books
• Journal writing, daily writing, and writing process will be introduced
• Grammar (introduction to nouns, verbs, sentences, and paragraphs)
• Dramatization
• Public speaking
• Reading comprehension skills including predicting, summarizing, and following directions
• Recognize facts and opinion
• Sequence of events
• Recall and retell
• Reading stories and making books to develop recognition of characters, problems, and setting

Mathematics

• Graphs
• Patterns
• Measurements
• Time
• Money
• Shapes
• Solids
• Ordinal positions
• Classification and grouping
• Exploring numbers 0 to 100
• Simple addition and subtraction
• Solve problems in reasonable ways and justify the reasoning
• Skip counting by2's, 5's, and 10's

Science

• Observe, experiment, and investigate:
• Living and non-living things
• Plants
• Animals
• Land, air, and water
• Weather
• Phases of matter
• Human body
• Conservation
• Earth science

Social Skills

• Introduction to being a good Muslim citizen
• Learning National and State symbols
• Families
• Communities
• Professions
• Holidays
• Learning about people and placed of other times

Islamic Studies

• Steps of wudu and prayer
• Prayer times
• Seerah of Prophet Muhammad (SAW)
• Quranic studies of the last 10 surahs of the Holy Quran including meaning
• Grade appropriate Fiqh and Ibadah
• Islamic morals and manners

Arabic

• Learn to read and write Arabic letters and numbers up to 20
• Introduction to basic vocabulary
• Reading simple words with tashkeel
• Arabic nasheeds
• Memorization of Allah's 99 Names
• Simple dialog