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Ready for Kindergarten Checklist

Is your child ready for kindergarten? Here's a checklist to help you figure out if your child has the physical, academic and social skills he or she needs to start kindergarten.

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10th December 2016

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Skills

Skills

Yes or No

Child's Progress

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Expressive and Receptive Language Skills

Speaks in complete sentence

Understands and follows directions with at least two steps

Can be understood by others most of the time

Uses words to express needs and wants

Makes comparisons and describes relationships between objects such as:

- big/little

- under/over

- first/last

Makes simple predictions and comments about a story being read

Ask questions about how things work in the world around her/him?

Sing and/or recite nursery rhymes?

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Approach to Learning and Cognition

Matches two like pictures in a set of five pictures

Classifies (same/different, alike/not alike) objects by physical features like shape solor and size

Organizes objects that go together in groups

Recognizes, copies or repeats patterning sequence

Demonstrates the ability to correctly put in order or sequence up to three story pictures

Identifies or points to five (5) colors

Does simple puzzles (up to four 4 pieces)

Retells a simple story after listening to a story with pictures

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Phonological Awareness and Reading Readiness Skills

Recognizes own name in print

Points to and/or recognizes letters in own name

Attempts to write letters in own name

Recognizes familiar signs, words and logos in the child’s environment

Enjoy getting a book as a present

Recognizes familiar signs and logos, such as stop signs

Can recite the alphabet and identify most of the letters

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Math Skills

Counts from 1 to 10 without skipping numbers

Matches a number to a group of five or fewer items (“I see three cats and four dogs”)

Understands more than and less than

Can name or point to the colors in a box of eight crayons

Names and recognizes basic shapes (square, circle, triangle, rectangle)

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Social and Emotional Skills

Knows first and last name

Knows parent’s first and last name

Makes needs known

Demonstrates independence in personal care (washing hands, dressing, bathroom use)

Interacts with other children

Can separate from you without getting overly upset

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Fine Motor Skills

Uses a pencil or crayon with some control

Uses a pencil or crayon to make markings on paper including lines, symbols and attempts at alphabet letters

Can use scissors

Copies basic shapes

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Gross Motor Skills

Runs

Can jump with feet together