Reading

At the end of Kindergarten your child should:

Identify all uppercase and lowercase letters;

Know the sounds of all consonants;

Recognize that a, e, i, o, and u are vowels and they have two sounds;

Demonstrate Concepts About Print (How a Book Works)

Left to right orientation

A group of letters form a word

Spoken words correspond with written words;

Print conveys meaning

Identify basic sight words (list available upon request);

Use pictures, sentence structure, and sense of story to construct the meaning of text;

Retell a story;

Tell what happens in the beginning, middle, and end of a story;

Connect text to personal experiences;

Answer specific questions related to text;

Point to words he/she reads (Voice Print Match);

Begin to read simple text and/or pattern stories.

Writing

At the end of Kindergarten your child should:

Use knowlege of letters and sounds to form words (temporary spellings focus on beginning and ending sounds);

Use the conventional spelling of Kindergarten spelling words

Write letters from dictation;

Write to tell about an experience

Begin writing with an uppercase letter

Use spaces between words

Use punctuation at the end

Create illustrations that convey meaning and details of his/her written work.

Spelling Words

The following words are our 11 kindergarten spelling words. Students are expected to be able to read and write these words by the end of kindergarten.

I is the a my at

and in you to it

Math

At the end of Kindergarten your child should:

Count by 1's to 10;

Count by 2's to 10, 5's to 30, and 10's to 100;

Count backwared from 10 to 0;

Count with one-to-one matching;

Read and write numerals 0-20;

Be able to correspond a set of objects to a given numeral;

Recognize geometric shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, rhombus, trapezoid, and hexagon);

Construct and extend patterens;

Understand positional concepts (first, last, top, and bottom);

Sort and classify by two attributes;

Tell time to the hour;

Identify coins (penny, nickel, dime, and quarter);

Use ordinal numbers from first to tenth;

Build fact families to sums of five using manipulatives;

Add and subtract sums and differences to 10 using manipulatives.