Kindergarten students will be screened on the following items - all of which parents can help their children master before they enter kindergarten:
~ Use scissors to cut simple shapes.
~ Hop on each foot and skip.
~ Identify body parts
(head, shoulder, chin, arms, elbow, wrist, hips, waist, legs, knees, ankle ,feet)
~ Identify colors
( red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, brown, pink, black, white)
~ Accurately state first and last name, age and birthday, address and phone.
What is my child learning in Kindergarten?
Reading
Kindergarten is a critical time to lay the foundation for becoming a successful reader. Your child will learn to:
~ Recite the alphabet ~ Recognize both upper and lower case letters ~ Learn basic concepts of print
~ Identify initial and final sounds in spoken words ~ Identify rhyming and non-rhyming words
~ Determine meaning's meaning ~ Make story predictions ~ Follow two & three-step directions
Kindergarten writing objectives involve:
~ Generating story ideas as a class and drawing pictures to match ~ Working as a group to draft a story.
~ Writing from left to right and showing space between words.
~ Writing the alphabet in both upper and lower case letters.
~ Writing first and last name on school papers.
Mathematics
~ Count to 20 ~ Identify and write numbers through 20 ~ Identify penny, nickel, dime, quarter, and dollar.
~ Understand the concepts above/below/between/smaller/larger/longer/shorter.
~ Identify, copy and create models of various shapes.
~ Sort objects by size, color and shape.