Kindergarten: Math CALIFORNIA CONTENT-STANDARD CHECKLIST

Student Name: ___________________________ Student Number: ___________________

General Standard	Sub-Standard	Standard Notation	Standard Description	Planned (X)	Date Mastered
NUMBER SENSE (NS)	1.0 Relationships between numbers and quantities	K.NS.1.1	Compare two or more sets of objects (up to ten objects in each group) and identify which set is equal to, more than, or less than the other
		K.NS.1.2	Count, recognize, represent, name, and order a number of objects (up to 30)
		K.NS.1.3	Know that larger numbers describe sets with more objects in them than the smaller numbers have
	2.0 Simple addition and subtraction	K.NS.2.1	Use concrete objects to determine the answers to addition and subtraction problems (for two numbers that are each less than 10)
	3.0 Estimation	K.NS.3.1	Recognize when an estimate is reasonable when computing and solving problems with numbers in the ones and tens places)
ALGEBRA AND FUNCTIONS (AF)	1.0 Sort and classify objects	K.AF.1.1	Identify, sort, and classify objects by attribute and identify objects that do not belong to a particular group (e.g., all these balls are green, those are red)
MEASURE-MENT AND GEOMETRY (MG)	1.0 Concept of time and units to measure it; objects have properties (e.g., length, weight, etc)	K.MG..1.1	Compare the length, weight, and capacity of objects by making direct comparisons with reference objects (e.g., note which object is shorter, longer, lighter, holds more).
		K.MG.1.2	Demonstrate an understanding of concepts of time (e.g., morning, evening, today, yesterday, tomorrow, week, year) and tools that measure time (e.g., clock, calendar)
		K.MG.1.3	Name the days of the week
		K.MG.1.4	Identify the time (to the nearest hour) of everyday events (e.g., lunch time is 12 o’clock; bedtime is 8 o’clock at night)
	2.0 Identify common objects in their environment and describe their geometric features	K.MG.2.1	Identify and describe common geometric objects (e.g., circle, triangle, square, rectangle, cube, sphere, cone)
		K.MG.2.2	Compare familiar plane and solid objects by common attributes (e.g., position, shape, size, roundness, number of corners)
STATISTICS, DATA ANALYSIS, AND PROBABILITY (SDP)	1.0 Collect information about objects and events in their environment	K.SDP.1.1	Pose information questions; collect data; and record the results using objects, pictures, and picture graphs
		K.SDP.1.2	Identify, describe, and extend simple patterns (such as circles or triangles) by referring to their shapes, sizes, or colors
MATHEMATICAL REASONING (MR)	1.0 Make decisions about how to set up a problem	K.MR.1.1	Determine the approach, materials, and strategies to be used.
		K.MR.1.2	Use tools and strategies, such as manipulatives or sketches, to model problems
	2.0 Solve problems in reasonable ways and justify their reasoning	K.MR.2.1	Explain the reasoning used with concrete objects and/or pictorial representations
		K.MR.2.1	Make precise calculations and check the validity of the results in the context of the problem

Kindergarten: English-Language Arts CALIFORNIA CONTENT-STANDARD CHECKLIST

Student Name: ____________________ Student Number: ______________________

General Standard	Sub-Standard	Standard Notation	Standard Description	Planned (X)	Date Mastered
READING (“R”)	1.0 Reading	K.R.1.1	Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book
		K.R.1.2	Follow words from left to right and from top to bottom of a printed page
		K.R.1.3	Understand that printed materials provide information
		K.R.1.4	Recognize that sentences in print are made up of separate words.
		K.R.1.5	Distinguish letters from words
		K.R.1.6	Recognize and name all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet
		K.R.1.7	Track and represent the number, sameness/difference, and order of two and three isolated phonemes (e.g., /f, s, th/, /j, d, j/)
		K.R.1.8	Track and represent changes in simple syllables and words with two and three sounds as one sound is added, substituted, omitted, shifted, or repeated
		K.R.1.9	Blend vowel-consonant sounds orally to make words or syllables
		K.R.1.10	Identify and produce rhyming words in response to an oral prompt
		K.R.1.11	Distinguish orally stated one-syllable words and separate into beginning or ending sounds
		K.R.1.12	Track auditorily each word in a sentence and each syllable in a word
		K.R.1.13	Count the number of sounds in syllables and syllables in words
		K.R.1.14	Match all consonant and short-vowel sounds to appropriate letters
		K.R.1.15	Read simple one-syllable and high-frequency words (sight words)
		K.R.1.16	Understand that as letters of words change, so do the sounds (alphabetic principle)
		K.R.1.17	Identify and sort common words in basic categories (e.g. colors, shapes, etc)
		K.R.1.18	Describe common objects and events in both general and specific language
	2.0 Reading Comprehension	K.R.2.1	Locate the title, table of contents, name of author, and name of illustrator
		K.R.2.2	Use pictures and context to make predictions about story content
		K.R.2.3	Connect to life experiences the information and events in texts
		K.R.2.4	Retell familiar stories
		K.R.2.5	Ask and answer questions about essential elements of a text
	3.0 Literary Response and Analysis	K.R.3.1	Distinguish fantasy from realistic text
		K.R.3.2	Identify types of everyday print materials
		K.R.3.3	Identify characters, settings and events
WRITING (W)	1.0 Writing Strategies	K.W.1.1	Use letters &phonetically spelled words to write about stories, people, objects, or events
		K.W.1.2	Write consonant-vowel-consonant words
		K.W.1.3	Write by moving from left to right and from top to bottom
		K.W.1.4	Write uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet independently, attending to form and proper spacing of the letters
W/O LANGUAGE (L)*	1.0 W/O Language	K.L.11	Recognize and use complete, coherent sentences when speaking
		K.L.1.2	Spell independently using pre-phonetic knowledge, alphabet sounds & knowledge of letter names
LISTENING & SPEAKING (LS)	1.0 Listening & Speaking	K.LS.1.1	Understand and follow one- and two-step oral directions
		K.LS.1.2	Share information and ideas, speaking audibly in complete, coherent sentences

* Written and Oral Language Conventions

Kindergarten: Science CALIFORNIA CONTENT-STANDARD CHECKLIST

Student Name: ____________________ Student Number: ______________________

General Standard	Standard Notation	Standard Description	Planned (X)	Date Mastered
PHYSICAL SCIENCE Properties of matter can be observed, measured, and predicted	K.1.a	Objects can be described in terms of the materials they are made of (clay, cloth, paper, etc.) and their physical properties (color, size, shape, weight, texture, flexibility, attraction to magnets, floating and sinking, etc).
	K.1.b	Water can be a liquid or a solid and can be made to change back and forth from one form to the other
	K.1.c	Water left in an open container evaporates (goes into the air), but water in a closed container does not.
LIFE SCIENCE Different types of plants and animals inhabit the Earth	K.2.a	Observe and describe similarities and differences in the appearance and behavior of plants and of animals (e.g., seed-bearing plants, birds, fish, insects).
	K.2.b	Stories sometimes give plants and animals attributes they do not really have
	K.2.c	Identify major structures of common plants and animals (e.g., stems, leaves, roots, arms, wings, legs)
EARTH SCIENCE The Earth is composed of land, air, and water	K.3.a	Characteristics of mountains, rivers, oceans, valleys, deserts, and local land forms
	K.3.b	Changes in weather occur from day to day and across seasons, affecting the Earth and its inhabitants
	K.3.c	Identify resources from the Earth that are used in everyday life and know that many of them can be conserved
INVESTIGATION AND EXPERIMENTATION Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations. (relates to three other standards)	K.4.a	Observe common objects using the five senses
	K.4.b	Describe the properties of common objects
	K.4.c	Describe the relative positions using one reference (e.g., above or below)
	K.4.d	Compare and sort common objects based on one physical attribute (including color, shape, texture, size, weight)
	K.4.e	Communicate observations orally and in drawings.

Kindergarten: History-Social Science: Learning and Working Now and Long Ago CALIFORNIA CONTENT-STANDARD CHECKLIST

Student Name: ____________________ Student Number: _______________________

General Standard	Standard Notation	Standard Description	Planned (X)	Date Mastered
K.1 Being a good citizen involves acting in certain ways	K.1.1	Examples of rules, such as sharing and taking turns, and the consequences of breaking them
	K.1.2	Examples of honesty, courage, determination, individual responsibility, and patriotism in American and world history, in stories and in folklore
	K.1.3	Know the beliefs and related behavior of characters in stories from times past, and understand the consequences of the characters actions
K.2 Symbols	K.2.1	Recognize national and state symbols and icons such as the national and state flags, the bald eagle, and the Statue of Liberty
K.3 Work that people do	K.3.1	Match simple descriptions of work that people do and the names of those jobs with examples from the school, local community and historical accounts
K.4 Compare and contrast the locations of people, places, and environments	K.4.1	Determine the relative location of objects using near/far, left/right, behind/in front
	K.4.2	Distinguish between land and water and locating general areas referenced in historically-based legends and stories on maps and globes
	K.4.3	Identify traffic symbols and map symbols (legend references to land, water, roads, and cities)
	K.4.4	Construct maps and models of neighborhoods, incorporating such structures as police and fire stations, airports, banks, hospitals, supermarkets, harbors, schools, homes, places of worship, and transportation lines
	K.4.5	Demonstrate familiarity with the school’s layout, environs and the jobs people do there
K.5 Put events in order	K.5.1	Put events in temporal order by using a calendar, placing days, weeks, and months in proper order
K.6 History relates to events, people, and places of other times	K.6.1	Identify the purposes of, and the people and events honored in, commemorative holidays, including the human struggles that were behind the events (e.g., Thanksgiving, Independence Day, Washington’s and Lincoln’s Birthdays, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, and Veteran’s Day)
	K.6.2	Know the triumphs in American legends and historical accounts through the stories of such people as Pocahontas, George Washington, Booker T. Washington, Daniel Boone, and Benjamin Franklin
	K.6.3	Understand the different ways people lived in earlier days and how their lives would be different today (e.g., the process of getting water from a well, growing food, making clothing, having fun, the type of organizations, rules, and laws)