This program will help students prepare for Grade K.

R7 -Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words (in our case participate in hands-on activities and experiments that result in observations and conclusions).

SL1 – Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively (in our case working in groups, sharing ideas and communicating ideas and findings with others).

SL4 – Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience (in our case working in groups, sharing ideas and communicating ideas and findings with others).

This program will help students prepare for Grade K.

• Goal CD-14: Children observe and describe characteristics of living things and the physical world.
• Goal CD-15: Children explore the natural world by observing, manipulating objects, asking questions, making predictions, and developing
  generalizations.
• Goal APL-1: Children show curiosity and express interest in the world around them.
• Goal APL-2: Children actively seek to understand the world around them.
• Goal APL-3: Children engage in increasingly complex play.
• Goal APL-4: Children demonstrate creativity, imagination, and inventiveness.
• Goal APL-5: Children are willing to try new and challenging experiences .
• Goal APL-6: Children use a variety of strategies to solve problems.
• Goal APL-7: Children demonstrate initiative.
• Goal APL-8: Children maintain attentiveness and focus.
• Goal APL-9: Children persist at challenging activities.
• Goal LDC-1: Children understand communications from others.
• Goal LDC-2: Children participate in conversations with peers and adults in one-on-one, small, and larger group interactions.
• Goal LDC-3: Children ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
• Goal LDC-4: Children speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly
• Goal CD-1: Children use their senses to construct knowledge about the world around them.
• Goal CD-2: Children recall information and use it for new situations and problems.
• Goal CD-3: Children demonstrate the ability to think about their own thinking: reasoning, taking perspectives, and making decisions.

This program compares different types of the same animal (i.e. different types of dogs, different types of cats, etc.) to determine individual differences within a particular type of animal (K.L.1.1).

This program compares characteristics of living and nonliving things in terms of their structure, growth, changes, movement and basic needs (K.L.1.2).

This program gives examples of different ways objects and organisms move (K.P.1.2).