--- {"type":"list","title":"Ready for Kindergarten Checklist","listId":4795,"canonicalUrl":"https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist","visibleItemTotal":46,"creator":{"id":"rizahope","name":"Riza Hope Molo","url":"https://listium.com/@rizahope"},"stats":{"views":1272,"likes":1},"category":"education / school","publishedAt":"2016-12-10T16:38:40.615Z","updatedAt":"2016-12-10T16:38:40.615Z","fields":[{"id":0,"name":"Skills","type":"PrimaryText"},{"id":3,"name":"Yes or No","type":"Symbols","format":"tick_cross"},{"id":6,"name":"Child's Progress","type":"Symbols","format":"harvey_balls"},{"id":4,"name":"Share Your Photo","type":"Image"},{"id":5,"name":"Write Down Notes","type":"Text","format":"long"}]} --- # Ready for Kindergarten Checklist By [Riza Hope Molo (@rizahope)](https://listium.com/@rizahope) 1272 views · 1 like Published 10 December 2016 · Updated 10 December 2016 Category: education / school 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. ## Items ### 1. [Speaks in complete sentence](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/1/speaks-in-complete-sentence) Item ID: `1` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 2. [Understands and follows directions with at least two steps](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/2/understands-and-follows-directions-with-at-least-two-steps) Item ID: `2` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 3. [Can be understood by others most of the time](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/3/can-be-understood-by-others-most-of-the-time) Item ID: `3` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 4. [Uses words to express needs and wants](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/4/uses-words-to-express-needs-and-wants) Item ID: `4` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 5. [Makes comparisons and describes relationships between objects such as:](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/5/makes-comparisons-and-describes-relationships-between-objects-such-as) Item ID: `5` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 6. [- big/little](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/44/-biglittle) Item ID: `44` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 7. [- under/over](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/45/-underover) Item ID: `45` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 8. [- first/last](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/46/-firstlast) Item ID: `46` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 9. [Makes simple predictions and comments about a story being read](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/6/makes-simple-predictions-and-comments-about-a-story-being-read) Item ID: `6` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 10. [Ask questions about how things work in the world around her/him?](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/7/ask-questions-about-how-things-work-in-the-world-around-herhim) Item ID: `7` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 11. [Sing and/or recite nursery rhymes?](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/8/sing-andor-recite-nursery-rhymes) Item ID: `8` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 12. [Matches two like pictures in a set of five pictures](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/9/matches-two-like-pictures-in-a-set-of-five-pictures) Item ID: `9` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 13. [Classifies (same/different, alike/not alike) objects by physical features like shape solor and size](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/10/classifies-samedifferent-alikenot-alike-objects-by-physical-features-like-shape-solor-and-size) Item ID: `10` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 14. [Organizes objects that go together in groups](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/11/organizes-objects-that-go-together-in-groups) Item ID: `11` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 15. [Recognizes, copies or repeats patterning sequence](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/12/recognizes-copies-or-repeats-patterning-sequence) Item ID: `12` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 16. [Demonstrates the ability to correctly put in order or sequence up to three story pictures](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/13/demonstrates-the-ability-to-correctly-put-in-order-or-sequence-up-to-three-story-pictures) Item ID: `13` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 17. [Identifies or points to five (5) colors](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/14/identifies-or-points-to-five-5-colors) Item ID: `14` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 18. [Does simple puzzles (up to four 4 pieces)](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/15/does-simple-puzzles-up-to-four-4-pieces) Item ID: `15` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 19. [Retells a simple story after listening to a story with pictures](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/16/retells-a-simple-story-after-listening-to-a-story-with-pictures) Item ID: `16` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 20. [Recognizes own name in print](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/17/recognizes-own-name-in-print) Item ID: `17` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 21. [Points to and/or recognizes letters in own name](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/18/points-to-andor-recognizes-letters-in-own-name) Item ID: `18` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 22. [Attempts to write letters in own name](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/19/attempts-to-write-letters-in-own-name) Item ID: `19` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 23. [Recognizes familiar signs, words and logos in the child’s environment](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/20/recognizes-familiar-signs-words-and-logos-in-the-childs-environment) Item ID: `20` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 24. [Enjoy getting a book as a present](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/21/enjoy-getting-a-book-as-a-present) Item ID: `21` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 25. [Recognizes familiar signs and logos, such as stop signs](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/22/recognizes-familiar-signs-and-logos-such-as-stop-signs) Item ID: `22` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 26. [Can recite the alphabet and identify most of the letters](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/23/can-recite-the-alphabet-and-identify-most-of-the-letters) Item ID: `23` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 27. [Counts from 1 to 10 without skipping numbers](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/24/counts-from-1-to-10-without-skipping-numbers) Item ID: `24` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 28. [Matches a number to a group of five or fewer items (“I see three cats and four dogs”)](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/25/matches-a-number-to-a-group-of-five-or-fewer-items-i-see-three-cats-and-four-dogs) Item ID: `25` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 29. [Understands more than and less than](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/26/understands-more-than-and-less-than) Item ID: `26` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 30. [Can name or point to the colors in a box of eight crayons](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/27/can-name-or-point-to-the-colors-in-a-box-of-eight-crayons) Item ID: `27` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 31. [Names and recognizes basic shapes (square, circle, triangle, rectangle)](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/28/names-and-recognizes-basic-shapes-square-circle-triangle-rectangle) Item ID: `28` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 32. [Knows first and last name](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/29/knows-first-and-last-name) Item ID: `29` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 33. [Knows parent’s first and last name](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/30/knows-parents-first-and-last-name) Item ID: `30` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 34. [Makes needs known](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/31/makes-needs-known) Item ID: `31` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 35. [Demonstrates independence in personal care (washing hands, dressing, bathroom use)](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/32/demonstrates-independence-in-personal-care-washing-hands-dressing-bathroom-use) Item ID: `32` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 36. [Interacts with other children](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/33/interacts-with-other-children) Item ID: `33` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 37. [Can separate from you without getting overly upset](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/34/can-separate-from-you-without-getting-overly-upset) Item ID: `34` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 38. [Uses a pencil or crayon with some control](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/35/uses-a-pencil-or-crayon-with-some-control) Item ID: `35` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 39. [Uses a pencil or crayon to make markings on paper including lines, symbols and attempts at alphabet letters](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/36/uses-a-pencil-or-crayon-to-make-markings-on-paper-including-lines-symbols-and-attempts-at-alphabet-letters) Item ID: `36` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 40. [Can use scissors](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/37/can-use-scissors) Item ID: `37` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 41. [Copies basic shapes](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/38/copies-basic-shapes) Item ID: `38` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 42. [Runs](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/39/runs) Item ID: `39` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 43. [Can jump with feet together](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/40/can-jump-with-feet-together) Item ID: `40` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 44. [Hops on one foot](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/41/hops-on-one-foot) Item ID: `41` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 45. [Climbs stairs](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/42/climbs-stairs) Item ID: `42` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: - ### 46. [Bounces and tries to catch a ball](https://listium.com/@rizahope/4795/ready-for-kindergarten-checklist/43/bounces-and-tries-to-catch-a-ball) Item ID: `43` - Yes or No: - - Child's Progress: - - Share Your Photo: - - Write Down Notes: -