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Early Learning Goals for Homeschool

Browse the Goals below, or CLICK on the links listed to be taken to a specific category.

LanguageArtsGoals

Reading

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  • listen to and answer questions about a story

  • explain her favorite part of a story

  • reenact stories during playtime

  • hold a book correctly and turn pages

  • clap out syllables

  • identify letters and sounds

  • gradually develop reading skills

  • occasionally point out letters and model what sounds they make

  • buy letter magnets and lose within one month

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Writing (fine motor)

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  • color inside the lines (mostly)

  • draw illegible handwriting

  • trace letters

  • draw loops, sticks, circles

  • trace a stencil

  • attempt real letters

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Phonics, Decoding, & Word Recognition (Kindergarten and up)

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  • Know upper-and lowercase letters of the alphabet

  • Know letter sounds for all of the consonants and short vowels (a,e,i,o,u)

  • Be able to blend short sequences of phonemes to form words

  • Understand syllabication - count number of syllables in a word

  • Know simple VCC, CVCC, and CCVC words (Vowel Consonant Consonant)

  • Recognize their own names in print

  • Know age appropriate sight words

MathGoals

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​Math Goals (Kindergarten and up)

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  • Be able to group objects into sets

  • Identify and continue simple repeating patterns

  • Be able to count from 1 to 31

  • Understand one-to-one correspondence

  • Identify ordinal positions from first to fifth

  • Given a number, be able to identify one more than one less

  • Understand the concept of one-half

  • Know the meaning of the plus and minus signs

  • Be able to add and subtract numbers from 1 to 10

  • Solve simple story problems

  • Identify pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and dollar bills

  • Know what a thermometer is

  • Know the days of the week in order

  • Identify basic two-dimensional shapes

ScienceGoals

Science & Technology

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  • Basic life cycle of humans and animals

  • Different animals eat and behave differently

  • some animals change or transform in their life cycle - butterflies & caterpillars

  • Kindergarten and up-

    • Know the 3 states of matter - solid, liquid, gas

    • Investigate Forces of Motion

    • Experiment with light and shadow

    • Difference in living and non-living things

    • Basic introduction to animals

    • Human body systems and the 5 senses

    • Know basic composition of the Earth and the basic features of the sun and moon

    • Be familiar with different types of weather

History&SocialStudiesGoals

History & Social Studies

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  • Discuss holidays

  • Identify and discuss significant people from history

  • people lived, worked, and ate differently in the past

  • maps and globes show where people live

  • money helps people trade for what they want

  • American History

    • Before Europeans arrived: Native Americans

    • Early European exploration and settlement of North America

    • Overview of the Revolutionary War

    • Slavery, the underground railroad, and the Civil War

    • Moving West and Pioneer Life

    • Recognize national symbols, like the flag

  • World History

  • Geography

    • be familiar with maps and globes

    • draw simple maps of areas like bedrooms or yard

    • Learn about the 7 continents

Character&SocialEmotionalGoals

Health & Safety Goals

  • healthy personal habits like sleep, nutritious meals, and personal hygiene

  • purpose of the 5 senses

  • illness is caused by germs- wash hands and cover mouth when sneezing

  • safety rules like seat belts, helmets, crossing street with an adult and in a cross walk

  • how to call for help from an adult or how to dial 911

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Character Goals

  • Name their own feelings

  • notice feelings of others

  • understand right from wrong

  • modify behavior with reminders

  • share with others

  • play alone for short periods of time

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Physical Goals

  • Dress self

  • Take care of bathroom needs

  • scribble

  • paint

  • cut with scissors

  • brush their own teeth

  • kick ball

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Mental Development Goals

  • understand concepts of time- yesterday and tomorrow

  • identify colors

  • follow one-step instructions

  • sort objects by one attribute (color or size)

  • speak in sentences with a subject and verb

  • play with simple puzzles

  • ask to read and pretend to read

  • try to write

  • count objects

  • recognize some letters

  • put toys and materials away

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