Learning Objectives

Here
is a list of learning objectives that I think Alysa should know by the
end of the year.  Most of these are taken off the Michigan Dept.
of Ed. website.  Most of them are actually kindergarten goals, but
I picked all the ones that I thought she should/could know.  This
is more to give me an idea of what to work on casually with her, and
not really have it be an intense learning experience.

Reading

• Recognize colors.
• Recognize and name capital and lower case letters and sounds.
• Comprehend beginning sound-symbol relationships.
• Identify opposites.
• Match letters, words and designs.
• Recognize rhyming words.
• Develop listening and speaking skills.
• Follow directions.
• Sequence events.
• Develop ability to print letters and copy words.
• Recognize that literature comes in many forms.
• Recognize that writing goes from left to right.
• Acquire emergent (beginning) reading skills.
• Recognize a few  basic sight words.
• Follow familiar written text while pointing to matching words.
• Identify a variety of narrative genre including
  —stories
  —nursery rhymes
  —poetry
  —songs.
•  Discuss simple story elements in narrative text
  —setting
  —characters
  —events
• Form upper and lower case letters.
  

Math

• Identify basic shapes.
• Complete patterns.
• Identify and reproduce sets 1-10.
• Classify by shape, color, and size.
• Print numbers 0-20.
• Understand the concept of addition and subtraction.
• Develop problem solving skills.
• Develop concepts and comparisons of measurement.
• Read and write numerals to 30 and connect them to the quantities they represent.
• Count orally to 100 by ones. Count to 30 by 2s, 5s and10s using grouped
  objects as needed.
• Create, describe, and extend simple number patterns.
• Know and use the common words for the parts of the day (morning, afternoon,
  evening, night) and relative time (yesterday, today, tomorrow, last week, next year).
•  Identify tools that measure time (clocks measure hours and minutes; calendars
  measure days, weeks, and months).
• Compare two or more objects by length, weight and capacity, e.g., which is
  shorter, longer, taller?
• Compare length and weight of objects by comparing to reference objects, and
  use terms such as shorter, longer, taller, lighter, heavier.
• Identify, sort and classify objects by attribute and identify objects that do not
  belong in a particular group.
• Create, describe, and extend simple geometric patterns.
• Know and understand money values
  

Science

• Identify characteristics associated with the four seasons.
• Understand the importance and functions of the five senses.
• Observe and discuss concept of change.
• Describe seasonal changes in weather.