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Kindergarten Readiness
Kindergarten Readiness Skills
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- Shares, takes turns and plays cooperatively with other children
- Is curious, interested and willing to try new things
- Adapts to new situations
- Takes responsibility for personal self-care routines EX. Hand washing and toileting
- Separates from caregiver to other trusted adult
- Uses four to six word sentences
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- Expresses basic emotions EX: happy, sad, mad, or scared
- Recognizes similarities and differences in self and others EX: boy or girl
- Completes a task such as working a puzzle
- Steers a tricycle, balances on a beam
- Uses Scissors correctly
- Follows basic safety rules and routines
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- Focuses and pays attention during story time
- Correctly grips the pencil, crayon, or paint brush
- Makes a variety of lines and shapes such as a circle, lay down line, square and triangle
- Using number and letter like forms and/or drawings to represent ideas
- Tosses or throws the balls
- Explores drawing with crayon and markers
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- Catches ball with hands
- Tells increasingly detailed stories or ideas
- Listens, tells, and engages in a story being read
- Participates in singing songs and saying rhymes
- Retells stories from favorite books and personal experiences
- Holds books right side up, turns pages one at a time from front to back
- Recognizes and names familiar shapes such as square, triangle, circle, and rectangle
- Recognizes and names these five colors: red, blue, yellow, green, and black
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- Kicks moving ball while running
- Recognizes bring they seen in their everyday life EX: stop sign, logos for Wal-Mart and McDonald’s
- Recognizes and names some letters of the alphabet, especially in their own name
- Is aware of familiar buildings and special places in the community such as home, school, grocery store, and park
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- Gallops, slides, hops, leaps, and skips
- Counts in sequence up to 20
- Counts objects using one number for each object
- Preforms three-step directions
- Comprehends who, what, why, and where questions
- Using four to six word sentences
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- Engages in memory games such as, “What’s Missing” and simple memory matching card games
- Produces the correct sounds for some of the letters of the alphabet
- Recognizes numerals 1-10
- Recognizes up to four objects in a group without counting
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- Pours liquid without spilling and builds with Legos or blocks
- Writes some letters correctly, especially those in own name
- Sorts objects by color, shape, and size
- Recognizes and repeats patterns such as triangle, square, triangle, square