Children should enter kindergarten able to do the following tasks.
- Recognize and print your name using upper case for the first letter and lower case for the remaining letters
- Identify beginning sounds in spoken words
- Identify rhyming words
- Name many upper and lower case letters out of order
- Recognize numerals 1-10
- Create sets and count objects 1-10
- Name and recognize colors and basic shapes (square, circle, triangle, rectangle)
Children should leave kindergarten able to do the following tasks.
- Read and comprehend books
- Recognize 25 most common sight words found in books
- Identify letters of the alphabet and most of the sounds associated with the letters of the alphabet
- Generate rhyming words
- Count and write numerals 0 -31
- Understand greater than and less than
- Use the proper pencil grip
Kindergarten Language Arts Goals
- Use strategies to decode words
- Read 25 high frequency words
- Read and comprehend books
- Recognize and generate rhyming words
- Create ideas in written form
Kindergarten Math Goals
- Identify, create and describe patterns
- Match and sort objects
- Identify circle, triangle, square and rectangle
- Identify and count numbers through 31
- Add and subtract to 10
- Identify coins and their values
- Graphing
Kindergarten Science Goals
Children will learn science
concepts through reading,
observations, explorations and
investigations.
Kindergarten Social Studies Goals
Children will learn about people of the
world, geography, economics and political
science as it pertains to their world.
