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What your child should know by the end of Kindergarten
Matching upper & lower case letters
Matching upper & lower case letters
- Name the letters of the alphabet
- Connect sounds with letters
- Recognize sight words (such as I, a, me, are, see, like, and, etc)
- Read 25 books for pleasure and to get information
- Understand how words work by following along while he or she listens to simple books
- Follow simple directions
- Write independently
- Tell stories
Writers Workshop
Writers Workshop
or ideas to an adult
- Print numbers, letters of the alphabet and a few simple words.
- Write numbers from 0 to 21 in order
- Count aloud to 100, backwards from 10, and by 10's to 100
- Build addition and subtraction families to 5 (for example, 2+3=5, 1+4=5, 5-3=2, etc.)
- Recognize the names of squares, rectangles, circles and triangles
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Reading
Reading
Measure objects using non-standard units (for example, the table is four teddy bears high)
- Use the terms "longer", "shorter", "equal", "more", and "less."
- Recognize and name pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and their values.
- Recognize simples patterns (such as a/b/a/c or red/yellow/red/blue)
- Read and interpret graphs