Kindergarten

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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