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Kindergarten Readiness

Kindergarten Readiness Skills

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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