The overall evaluation for Kindergarten focuses on student progress made based on the unique learning styles and needs of young children. A range of interactive experiences will provide practice of skills in the following areas.
Intellectual skills that promote thinking, communication, problem-solving and decision making.
Physical skills that control motor functions.
Social-emotional skills that develop moral values, promote appropriate social behaviors and self-identity.
Methods to monitor individual progress will include report card skills testing, checklists, files of children’s work and informal assessments. All monitoring methods correlate with the Indiana Academic State Standards. Parents will be kept informed of pupil progress by specified fall and spring parent conferences, report cards at the end of each grading period and additional conferences as needed.
Some of the specific skills included on the kindergarten report card for mastery are listed below. For a complete listing of all kindergarten skills, please refer to the report card.
-Mastery of all letters and sounds of the alphabet
-Ability to recognize rhyming words
-Able to identify the number of syllables in a word
-Able to identify beginning and ending sounds of words
-Draws pictures and writes words for a specific reason
-Recognize and write numbers to 20
-Count numbers to 100
-Ability to use numbers in order to make connections and identify relationships between them and real life situations.
-Able to listen and participate in the areas of Science, Social Studies and Health as they are implemented throughout the curriculum.