Kindergarten -
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"What should my child know and be able to do at the end of Kindergarten?"
Importance of
Communication and Math Skills
No subjects in school are more important to a student’s future
success than reading, writing, and mathematics. Without these skills,
students will have a more difficult time learning in the next grade.
They must know how to use reading, writing, and math in all their school
subjects, including art, music, science, social studies, health, and physical
education. Our district has identified the most important for success in
the next grade.
This page describes what we want your child to learn in
reading, writing, and math by the end of the year. It may give you some
ideas about specific skills you would like to help your child practice.
As you will see, our expectations are high. There may be content, such
as geometry, that you would not have expected so early in your child’s
education. There may also be terms which are unfamiliar to you.
If there are parts you are unsure of, please ask your child’s teacher for more
information.
One of our goals as a school district is to have as many
children as possible reach these expectations – or learn even more – by the end
of each school year.
Communication Skills –
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By the end of Kindergarten, a student should know the following:
Develop word knowledge and reading strategies (skills to
help understand what is read)
- Show awareness of books and print.
- Hear and recognize sounds in words.
- Recognize most upper case (capital)
and lower case letters.
- Read and understand simple signs,
very common words, and captions.
Understand the meaning of what is read
- Retell stories read to him/her and
identify the beginning, middle and end.
- Discuss characters from books or
stories.
- Connect events and characters in
stories to personal experience.
Build habits of a thoughtful reader
- Explore a variety of books
- Write and draw about stories and
books read to him/her
Write clearly and effectively (These skills will prepare the
kindergartner for actual writing)
- Express ideas on a single topic
- Add details to a story with some
help
- Begin to form letters
- Connect meaning to own invented
symbols
- Understand some concepts of print,
for example, top-to-bottom, left-to-right, spaces between words.
- May write his/her own name and a few
simple words.
Use processes and habits of a thoughtful writer
- Attempt writing
- Draw stories; express feelings in art
work
- Dictate stories to another writer.
- Retell own stories.
- Share stories/writing with others
Math Concepts and Skills
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By the end of Kindergarten, a student should know the following:
Number Sense and Computation
- Count up to 20 objects.
- Read numerals up to 20.
- Write numerals up to 12.
- Show understanding of number
concepts by breaking apart numbers up to and including 5 (4+1, 2+3).
Use this web
site, with parent guidance, to help teach the concepts above
Measurement
- Compare objects by size.
- Measure length using non-standard
units not ordinarily used for measurement, for example, toothpicks or Popsicle
sticks.
Use this web
site, with parent guidance, to help teach the concepts above
Geometric Sense
- Know names for basic shapes, for
example, circle, square, triangle, rectangle.
- Describe the location of such
objects using words such as under, over, next to.
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Probability and Statistics
- Show information about oneself, for
example, height, on a graph of the class.
- Make comparisons of collected data
in response to teacher’s questions, for example, which is more? Which is less?
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Algebraic Sense – (Patterns and Functions)
- Copy and extend a simple repeating
pattern, such as ABB, ABB, and represent it in a different way.
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