Content Connections: Kindergarten
Summary: definitions across all grades
OrderOrder involves the understanding of sequence, succession, steps, and arrangement of events, actions, objects and details. Kindergarteners work toward understanding the concept of order to build toward the larger concepts of patterns, task completion, and organization. This essential and foundational concept is the basis for life-long sense making.
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Similarities and DifferencesSimilarities and differences are concepts grounded in simple use of comparison and classification to organize and make sense of the world. Identifying similarities and differences provides the foundation for sorting, organizing, and contrasting according to attributes and characteristics. Understanding similarities and differences is a fundamental cognitive process, which enables kindergarteners to link, connect, and integrate ideas as they build upon prior knowledge and create new learning.
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ExpressionExpression is the ability of an individual or group to represent or convey thoughts, ideas, and feelings through words and nonlinguistic representation. Kindergartners are working on how to use the different means of expression to relay their thoughts, learning, thinking, and feeling to others. Their expression is becoming more social and less egocentric.
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RepresentationRepresentation is a complex concept requiring kindergartners to begin the work of understanding that something stands for, take the place of, or symbolizes something else. A fundamental component of communication is understanding representation. The use of symbols to represent ideas is a life-long skill supporting deeper cognitive understanding and is essential to accessing the world.
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