Listed below are the skills that should be mastered by the end of Kindergarten. We will be teaching and practicing these basic skills throughout the year in school. This information is being provided for those parents who wish to provide additional practice and support at home which is always beneficial to the students.

•  writing first name, last name and stating address
•  stating phone number and stating birthday
•  saying the days of the week and saying the months of the year
•  identifying body parts (ankle, wrist, heel, waist are always the most difficult)
•  color identification and naming shapes
•  counting 1 – 100 and counting backwards from 10
•  counting by 10s to 100 and counting by 5s to 100
•  numeral recognition 0 – 20 and writing numerals 0 – 20
•   identify and extend patterns and naming coins & values
•  upper and lower case letter recognition and writing the letters of the alphabet
•  identifying the sound of each letter and these blends; th, sh, ch, and wh
•  tracking (finger under word as it is read), recognizing and generating rhyming words
•  identify what the author/illustrator does
•  tell time to the hour using digital and analog clocks
•  add coins to a sum of  10 cents
•  add and subtract with 10 concrete items
  

Sight Word recognition:
a, the, can, at, I, am, like, is, big, in, it, but
look, see, my, we, little, have, not, do, what
here, to, up, get, and, where, you, that, go, come
said, are

Color words :
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, black
white, pink

Number words :
zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten

Students will be placed according to skill levels for reading groups.  This will allow for differentiated instruction ie: letter identification, sound association, sight word acquisition, and/or beginning reading and comprehension strategies.