Kindergarten · the first full year of school, run for readiness not pressure
Kindergarten in New Jersey
New Jersey public schools are overseen by the New Jersey Department of Education. This is the Kindergarten view of one honest K-12 platform, from the state capital of Trenton to the smallest district in between.
Schools across New Jersey
State capital
Trenton
Schools statewide, from the capital to every district beyond it.
Serving schools in
Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, Elizabeth, Trenton, and Edison
and the towns in between — the small schools, not only the big ones.
What Kindergarten looks like here
The first full-day school year; a child learning to be a student before learning subjects -- letters, numbers, colors, and how a school day works.
The roster is how a five-year-old is known by name on day one -- imported once, the child is on the class list, the guardian is the contact of record, before any photo or page exists.
From preschool / at-home / daycare into the first graded-school building; the platform's early-learning keepsake posture (preschool) carries forward, now on a real school roster.
Standards
The standards Kindergarten lessons align to in New Jersey
In New Jersey, the New Jersey Department of Education sets the standards a public school must teach. We are not the New Jersey Department of Education, and we are not endorsed, approved, or affiliated with it -- or with the organizations that steward the frameworks below. We write each Kindergarten lesson against published national standards frameworks that many states draw on, and we tell you which ones, so you can check them against what New Jersey requires.
At Grades K-2, Kindergarten focuses on the foundational years -- learning to read with phonics, building number sense, and counting. The lessons run in these subject lanes: Reading & writing, Mathematics, Science, Social studies & civics, and The arts.
CCSS
Common Core State Standards
Shared expectations for English language arts and mathematics adopted by many states.
Stewarded by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers. We align our materials to it; we are not endorsed or approved by it.
NGSS
Next Generation Science Standards
Science expectations organized around practices, core ideas, and crosscutting concepts.
Stewarded by Achieve, on behalf of the lead states. We align our materials to it; we are not endorsed or approved by it.
C3
the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards
An inquiry-driven framework for civics, economics, geography, and history.
Stewarded by the National Council for the Social Studies. We align our materials to it; we are not endorsed or approved by it.
NCAS
the National Core Arts Standards
Expectations for creating, performing, responding to, and connecting with the arts.
Stewarded by the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards. We align our materials to it; we are not endorsed or approved by it.
What that looks like, subject by subject
Reading & writing
Kindergarten Reading & writing
Close reading, vocabulary, and clear writing built on original worksheets and public-domain texts.
Kindergarten Reading & writing lessons here align to Common Core State Standards.
Mathematics
Kindergarten Mathematics
Number sense, operations, and problem-solving practice sets you can print or assign.
Kindergarten Mathematics lessons here align to Common Core State Standards.
Science
Kindergarten Science
Hands-on observation, measurement, and inquiry activities for the classroom or the kitchen table.
Kindergarten Science lessons here align to Next Generation Science Standards.
Social studies & civics
Kindergarten Social studies & civics
Primary-source reading and civics built around the public-domain founding documents.
Kindergarten Social studies & civics lessons here align to the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.
The arts
Kindergarten The arts
Looking, listening, and making activities that pair with public-domain works of art and music.
Kindergarten The arts lessons here align to the National Core Arts Standards.
Standards vary by state. New Jersey sets its own academic standards through the New Jersey Department of Education, not through us; its own site is the place to check the exact documents and codes it currently requires for each subject above.
We do not reproduce the standard text here; the steward’s site is the place to read it in full. “Aligned to” is a claim we make about our own work, not a stamp from someone else.
Honest by default
The school stays the FERPA custodian of student records; a rep-scoped view reads zero grade rows at the database engine. Money, pricing, and checkout are honest-off on this page, and any school count above is an NCES Common Core of Data reference figure, never a claim of adoption in New Jersey.
Where these numbers come from
Data from the NCES Common Core of Data, 2023-2024. Schools may have opened or closed since publication.
More on Kindergarten
The Kindergarten overview
The full Kindergarten view of the platform — the capabilities that lead at this grade, each marked honestly as shipped or early access.
schoolsoftware.app
The plain-language K–12 module catalog front door. Every grade page is one grade’s view of that same platform.
homeroom.software
The flagship platform home, with the full product story behind every module and every grade.