Four-year-old Kindergarten is an exciting beginning for young children. It is the start of our little ones’ educational journey. In this year, your child’s learning will blossom and become the foundation by which he or she continues to grow and learn.

Kindergarten students at this age level will come to school either for full days Monday and Thursday, or Tuesday and Friday, with one additional Wednesday per month. The school day lasts from 8:15 a.m. until 3:15 a.m., giving teachers ample time to work with children and develop their skill sets.

Your involvement in your child’s education is essential for the experiences he/she has in school. Please work with your child at home on the skills listed in this curriculum guide website. We hope the ideas listed here will help you understand the milestones your child will be pursuing this year and the ways you can help your child achieve much success.

The Delavan-Darien School District has adopted the Common Core State Standards as its curriculum guideline. Within this standards-based curriculum document, 4-year-old kindergarten teachers have identified what Delavan-Darien kindergarten students should know and be able to do in all subject areas (see below).

Four-year-old Kindergarten teachers also follow Wisconsin Model Early Learning Standards, which are designed to guide instruction for children birth through first grade. There are five domains outlined within the standards including:

• Health and Physical Development
• Social and Emotional Development
• Language Development and Communication
• Approaches to Learning
• General Knowledge and Cognition

Within these domains are sub-domains that give developmental expectations and key examples of evidence of growth in each area.

For more information, download the Wisconsin Early Learning Standards guidebook.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

What your child will learn and know in 4-year-old Kindergarten:

4-Year-Old Kindergarten Skills

• Using scissors and glue with control
• Using proper pencil grip
• Coloring within the lines and creating own original artwork
• Listening to stories
• Participating in classroom activities
• Using manners

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Working and Living in the Classroom

• Sharing, getting along, and respecting others
• Listening attentively
• Following oral directions
• Following school rules
• Expressing needs
• Dressing self independently

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Reading

• Identify front, back, title page, author and illustrator
• Follow words from left to right and top to bottom
• Name all upper and lower case letters and know all letter sounds
• Recognizing capital letters
• Recognizing lower case letters
• Checking out library books
• Listening to stories
• Sequences events in the correct order

You can increase your child’s understanding of reading concepts by:

• Reading daily
• Discussing parts of the book
• Showing your child a word or a letter within a story
• Finding letters within the text of a story
• Using flash cards to review letters in isolation

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Language Arts - Writing

• Writes name using the correct letter formation

You can increase your child’s understanding of writing concepts by:

• Coloring in one direction and staying in the lines
• Writing the letters in the alphabet
• Writing their first and last name using upper and lowercase letters
• Writing using both paper and Zaner Bloser handwriting strokes

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Math

• Patterning
• Counting up to 30
• Sorting like objects
• Understanding 1:1 correspondence
• Counting sets of 3
• Counting sets of 5
• Counting sets of 10
• Counting sets of 20
• Recognizing shapes: circle, star, triangle, square, rectangle, oval, heart and diamond
• Sequencing
• Recognizing numerals 1—10
• Working puzzles
• Computer experience

You can build your child’s math skills at home by:

• Making counting part of your daily life (count cars at the stoplight or steps when you are walking)
• Helping your child notice and name simple patterns in clothing
• Using the words more and less, above and under, in and out, between and beside
• Finding and identifying various shapes in your home (circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, ovals)

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Science

• Classify living & nonliving things
• Identify parts of a plant and what plants need to survive
• Identify the five senses and how people use their senses
• Identify the body part/organ associated with each sense
• Identify the day and night sky: i.e. earth, moon, and sun
• Identify and describe some internal and external body parts: i.e. heart, stomach, brain, lungs, skin.
• Identify colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, white, black, gray and brown.

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