Success in Kindergarten

Here are some things your child should be able to do to help him/her excel in Kindergarten at SHM. Your child can...

*Write his/her name correctly (first letter is capitalized and the rest are lowercase letters ex: Annie)

*Go beyond the "ABC" song (able to recognize letters in isolation and out of sequence)

*Identify letter sounds (long and short vowels)

*Write the letters of the alphabet (uppercase and lowercase)

*Write words by sound-spelling (writes the letters that represent the sounds heard in words)

*Draw a picture and label it

*Color a picture using at least 3 different colors

*Use pencils, scissors and glue correctly

*Dictate a story to you

*Identify and create rhyming words

*Read simple sight words (found on web site)

*Read and spell cvc (consonant-vowel-consonant) words

*Identify greater than, less than or equal to when comparing sets up to 10 items

*Copy, extend, and create patterns

*Identify shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, rhombus, hexagon, trapezoid, cube, cylinder, cone, sphere)

*Create and draw shapes

*Sort by color, size and shape,

*Count by rote to 30+ (add on when mastered)

*Identify numerals to 30+ (in or out of sequence)

*Write numerals to 30+

*Count sets of objects up to 20

*Recognize coins and their values

*Use fine motor skills to tie shoelaces, open lunch items, zip, button, etc.

*Understand and follow simple and multi-step directions

*Stay on task and work independently at least for 10 minutes