Grading Scale
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Kindergarten
E
S+
S
S-
N
U
Kindergarten children are expected to demonstrate the following:
Personal and Social Habits
- • Works and plays with others willingly and cooperatively
• Shows respect toward children and adults
• Tries to solve own problems appropriately
• Follows school and class rules
• Assumes responsibility for school and personal property
• Stays on task
• Is able to share and take turns
• Uses materials appropriately and returns when finished
• Listens without interrupting or distracting others
Mathematics
- When using manipulatives student is able to:
• Copy and complete a pattern
• Create a pattern with up to 3 elements
• Put objects in groups by color, size, or shape
• Sort a group of objects in more than one way
• Determine which object is longer, shorter, larger, and smaller
• Order a set of objects long to short, short to long
• Tell which objects come 1st to 5th
• Create sets showing more, less, and equal
• Instantly recognize sets of objects to 5
• Count objects with 1 to 1 correspondence
• Order numbers 0 to 10
• Find possible solutions to simple story problems
• Interpret simple graphs
• Identify 10 basic colors
• Identify 4 basic shapes
• Name numerals to 10
• Write numerals to 10
• Recognize penny, nickel, dime, and quarter
Reading & Language Arts
- Speaks in complete sentences
- Listens attentively to stories read aloud
- Follows verbal instructions
- Follows print left-right, top-bottom
- Points to words as teacher reads them in a written text
- Memorizes a simple rhyme, poem, or song
- Identifies words seen over and over in familiar stories, rhymes, songs, or poems
- Chooses reading or writing activities on his/her own
- Uses letters to represent words or messages writing independently
- Uses beginning sounds to represent words or messages
- Reads or tells about own writing
- Names upper case letters
- Names lower case letters
- Knows most beginning sounds
- Writes first name using capital and lower case letters
- • Works and plays with others willingly and cooperatively