During your child's kindergarten year he/she will have many goals to meet. He/she will have: academic goals, large and fine motor goals, and general information goals
General Information Goals:
- Print first and last name
- Know first and last name
- Know days of the week
- Know colors
Academic Goals:
Reading:
- Know the letters of the alphabet {both capital and lowercase}
- Know the sounds of each letter in the alphabet
- Know how to recall and print each letter of the alphabet
- Know how to sequence and retell a story
- Know rhyming words
- Know the 20 high frequency words taught
- Know how to build words and blend sounds to hear a word
- Know how to read 3 letter word family words
Math:
- Know shapes
- Know how to count by 5s to 1oo
- Know how to count by 10s to 100
- Know how to count by 1s to 100
- Know how to write numbers 1-31
- Recognize numbers 1-31
- Know how to count backwards from 20
- Know how to sort objects
- Know how to create and extend a pattern
- Understand concepts of more and less
- Recognize and understand value of: penny, nickel, dime, and quarter
- Recognize time by the hour
- Know how to solve simple addition and subtraction problems
Small motor skills:
- Use crayons and pencils correctly
- Holds and cuts with scissors correctly
- Forms letters and numbers from top to bottom
Large motor skills:
- Jumping
- Hopping
- Skipping
- Galloping
- For more information, please check Mrs. Maloney's website