Amherst & Pelham Public Schools

District Curriculum Overview

Subject:  Mathematics                                                                                                                                               Grade Level:  Kindergarten

Concepts/Enduring Understandings/Themes

Topics/Units

Content/Skills

Essential Activities/Agreements

Number Sense:  Numbers are used to represent quantity or position and quantities can be combined or taken apart

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recognizing, Creating, and Extending Patterns:  Patterns show order in the world, can be found in many different forms, and can be used to sort and classify objects.

 

 

 

 

Geometry:  Shapes can be described by their characteristics and they can be sorted using their attributes. 

 

 

 

 

 

Measurement:  Objects have distinct attributes that can be measured, and objects can be compared using the same attribute. 

 

 

 

 

 

Data Analysis:  Formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them.

Who Is in School Today?

 

Counting& Comparing

 

Measuring & Counting

 

How Many Do You Have?

 

 

Who Is in School Today?

 

What Comes Next?

 

Sorting & Surveys

 

Twos, Fives, & Tens

 

 

Make a Shape, Build a Block

 

 

 

 

 

 

Counting & Comparing

 

Measuring & Counting

 

How Many Do You Have?

 

 

Who Is in School Today?

 

Sorting & Surveys

*Count by ones to at least 30.

*Match quantities up to at least 10 with numerals.

*Identify positions of objects in sequences up to fifth.

*Compare sets of up to at least 10 concrete objects using appropriate language (e.g., none, more than, fewer than, same number of, one more than) and order numbers.

*Represent quantities using concrete objects.

*Understand the concepts of whole and half.

*Identify U.S. coins by names (penny, nickel, dime, quarter). 

 

 

 

*Identify, sort and classify objects by color, shape, size, number, and other properties.

*Identify, reproduce, describe, extend, and create color, rhythmic, shape, number, and letter repeating patterns with simple attributes,

*Explore skip counting by twos, fives and tens.

 

 

 

 

*Name, describe, sort, and draw simple two-dimensional shapes (circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles).

*Describe attributes of two-dimensional shapes, (e.g., number of sides,   number of corners).

*Identify positions of objects in space, and use appropriate language (e.g., beside, inside, next to, close to, above, below, apart, under, over, behind, between) to describe and compare their relative positions.

 

 

*Recognize and compare the attributes of length, volume/capacity, weight, area, and time using appropriate language, (e.g., longer, taller, shorter, equal, heavier, lighter, hold more, holds less)

*Sequence pictures of events, (e.g., before, after, next, etc.).

*Tell time to the hour on an analog clock.

*Name the days of the week and seasons.

 

 

*Collect, sort, organize, and draw conclusions about data using concrete objects, pictures, numbers, and graphs.

 

Mathematics should be embedded in common classroom routines and activities:  morning meeting, making & sharing snack, water/sand table, place in line, etc.

 

Teachers will also incorporate the activities/suggestions in the Classroom Routines section of the Implementing Investigations in Kindergarten Guide into their daily class schedule