What your child learns in Kindergarten in Saskatchewan

Big Ideas

• NK (NK.1–NK.5): Say the whole number sequence by 1s starting anywhere from 0 to 10 and from 10 to 0. Recognize, at a glance, and name familiar arrangements of 1 to 5 objects, dots, or pictures. Relate a numeral, 0 to 10, to its respective quantity. (and 2 more outcomes)
• PK (PK.1): Demonstrate an understanding of repeating patterns (two or three elements).
• SSK (SSK.1–SSK.3): Use direct comparison to compare two objects based on a single attribute. Sort 3-D objects using a single attribute. Build and describe 3-D objects.

5 units, including count to 10, make 5 and 10, more, less, same, patterns.

Big Ideas

• Comprehend and Respond (CRK.1–CRK.4): Comprehend and respond to a variety of visual, oral, print, and multimedia texts that address identity… View and interpret the basic message of visuals and objects in a variety of texts including models, photographs… Listen, comprehend, and respond to gain meaning in oral texts. (and 1 more outcome)
• Compose and Create (CCK.1–CCK.4): Compose and create various visual, multimedia, oral, and written texts that explore and present thoughts, ideas… Use and construct symbols, pictures, and dramatizations to communicate feelings and ideas in a variety of ways. Use oral language to converse, engage in play, express ideas, and share personal experiences. (and 1 more outcome)
• Assess and Reflect on Language Abilities (ARK.1–ARK.2): Reflect on viewing, listening, emerging "reading", representing, speaking, and emerging "writing" experiences in… Reflect and talk about new learning.

7 units, including letter partners, first sounds, rhyme time, clap the beat.

Big Ideas

• Life Science: Living Things in our Environment (LTK.1): Examine observable characteristics of plants, animals, and people in their local environment.
• Physical Science: Observing Forces and Energy (FEK.1): Examine the effects of physical forces, magnetic forces, light energy, sound energy, and heat energy, on objects…
• Physical Science: Materials and Objects (MOK.1): Investigate observable characteristics of familiar objects and materials in their environment.

5 units, including animal features, what living things need, push & pull, materials.

Big Ideas

• Interactions and Interdependence (INK.1–INK.2): Demonstrate an understanding of similarities and differences among individuals in the classroom. Describe the diversity of groups represented in the classroom.
• Dynamic Relationships (DRK.1–DRK.3): Describe the spatial relationships among people, places, and environments. Explore examples of promises made through actions and words, and why it is important to keep promises. Analyze ways in which place and physical systems influence daily life, including the influence of place on the…
• Power and Authority (PAK.1–PAK.2): Understand and respect the agreed-upon rules of the classroom, playground, and school, and recognize that rules… Recognize situations in which disagreement may be part of living, studying, and working together, and that…

4 units, including all about me, helpers & rules, places near me, caring for nature.