The kindergarten has changed dramatically over the past few years. Higher level skills are now taught in kindergarten.
Fine Motor Skills:
- Holds scissors correctly and can cut on a straight or curved line
- Holds a pencil or crayon correctly
- Button shirts, pants, coats, and zip zippers
- Know how to use a computer mouse
- Tie your shoes (Students unable to tie shoes will need Velcro)
Academic Skills:
- Recognizes shapes (square, circle, triangle, rectangle)
- Identify/name alphabet letters (all uppercase letters and all lowercase letters when shown out of order)
- Identify the beginning sound of some words
- Can sort items by color, shape, and size
- Understands concept words such as up, down, in, out, behind, over
- Counts from 1-10
- Can write the numbers 0-5 correctly
- Recognize groups of one, two, three, four, and five objects
- Recognizes colors (blue, green, red, orange, yellow, blac brown, purple, white, pink, gray)
- Write his/her first name (first letter capital, rest of the letters lowercase)
- Recognize his/her written name
- Listen to stories without interrupting
- Show understanding of general times of day
Social Skills:
- Follow simple directions
- Express feelings and needs
- Pay attention for a period of time to adult-directed tasks
- Understand actions have both causes and effects
- Manage bathroom needs independently
- Share with others
- Follow rules
- Be able to recognize authority
- Control one-self
- Separate from parents without being upset
- Speak understandably
- Talk in complete sentences of at least five to six words
Personal Information:
- Knows his/her full name
- Knows how old he/she is and birthday
- Knows his/her address and phone number
- Knows his/her mother and father’s first names