Express ideas and needs in complete sentences.

1. KG1 Learning Objectives By the end of the year, students should be able to: 1 - Language Arts • Recognize letter sounds of vowels, consonants and combination of sounds (ex: diagraphs) • Recognize and trace lower case letters. • Identify beginning , middle and ending sounds • Recognize some high frequency words. • Recognize and decode some three letter (CVC) words. • Express ideas through drawings. • Identify rhyming words. • Respond to stories by acting, retelling, or identifying characters. • Express ideas and needs in complete sentences. • Develop and use new vocabulary and actively participate in conversations. • Recognize and trace own name. • Display book handling knowledge. • 2-Math • Sort, classify, display, and compare a variety of concrete objects according to their size, shape and color. • Demonstrate an understanding of numbers using concrete materials to explore and investigate counting, quantity, and number relationships. •  Match numbers to sets. • Identify order and trace numbers from 1 to 20. • Count orally from 1 to 30. • Get introduced to counting from 1 to 100. • Identify directions. • Identify 2D and 3D shapes. • Copy and create simple patterns. • Compare groups of objects. • Explore the meaning of addition and subtraction using concrete objects. • Collect and describe data in a graph. 

2. 3- Social Studies • Demonstrate a sense of identity and a positive self image. • Begin to understand surroundings and the difference in individuals, school, family, and community. • Express different feelings. • Identify family members. • Identify different jobs in the community. • Have awareness about money, buying, spending, and shopping. • Identify some animals and have awareness of farm life. • Identify seasons. • Identify and explore different cultures from around the world. • 4- Science • Recognize and use safely some tools and equipment. • Demonstrate basic scientific skills like observing and predicting. • Develop an awareness of seasonal change and weather conditions. • Name some human body parts. • Identify the five senses. • Tell the difference between living and nonliving things. • Explore and observe plants and animals and know about their care. • Explore land, air and water. • Explore how things move. • Investigate different state of matter and how it changes. • Learn how to take care of resources.

3. 5- Social/ Emotional / Physical Development • Actively engage in class discussions and class activities. • Listen carefully. • Play independently and cooperatively in pairs and small groups • Generate questions and respond to questions. • Follow simple directions and rules. • Care for materials and respect the property of others. • Begin to take responsibility in learning and other activities. • Demonstrate self help skills. • Recognize and describe a wide range of feelings. • Channel impulsive and negative feelings. • Share and take turns. • Make good decisions and choices. • Draw simple pictures and color within lines. • Control pencil well. • Cut and paste with relative ease. • Use and control scissors .