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Kindergarten
Is My Child Ready For Kindergarten?
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Skills A Child Should Bring to Kindergarten:Social and Self Help Skills
- Clean up their personal space, including toys and tools
- Know their first and last names
- Know how to unpack their backpack and put things in it
- Takes care of self in the bathroom
- Put on their coats, button or zip
- Realize there will be other children in class and they share a teacher’s time
- Cover their mouths when coughing or sneezing
- Share materials and toys with others
- Show concern about fairness
- Follow two or three part directions, such as “We’re going to put backpacks away, take
- our folders out and hang up our coats”
Academic Skills
- Hold a pencil or crayon and be able to color
- Hold scissors and be able to cut
- Print their name
- Know basic color and simple shapes
- Understand spatial words such as over, above, beside and in between
- Work on a task over a period of time
- Sustain attention for story time and sharing
- Represent simple objects through drawing
- Retell a story in sequential order
- Sort objects in categories
- Recognize some numbers
- Be able to count objects up to ten
- Identify upper and lower case letters