Kindergarten+Essential+Skills

Kindergarten Essential Skills

// Below are our Kindergarten Essential skills. These are the skills that the School District of Black River Falls feel need to be meet by the end of a student’s kindergarten year. (Please remember these are end of the year goals.) //

__Reading __  Identify all upper and lower case letters.  Produce all 21 consonant sounds in isolation.  Isolate beginning sounds.  Isolate ending sounds.  Identify sight words.  Produce and identify rhyming words orally.  Sequence pictures to tell a story.  Demonstrate the concept of progression from top to bottom and left to right.  Understand concepts of print.  Visually discriminate with pictures, letters and words.  Be aware of character-setting-author-illustrator.  Show interest in literature.  Be able to make predictions and inferences. __Writing__ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Write first and last name with correct upper and lower case letters. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Begin to write upper and lower case letters with proper formation. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Understand the concept of a sentence (capital letters, punctuation, spacing, etc.). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Understand the concept of writing – the spoken word can be written down. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Begin to use phonemic spelling and sight words to convey thoughts through <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">words and simple sentences. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Recognize the difference between letters and words. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">__Math__ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Count to 100. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Demonstrate 1:1 correspondence to 20. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Make and name patterns (AB, ABB, ABC). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Sort by size, color, and shape. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Order numbers 1 - 20. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Identify shapes (circle, rectangle, square, triangle, oval, diamond). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Write numbers to 20. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Recognize numbers to 20. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Understand value of numbers to 6.

<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 25.3333px; text-align: center;">Kindergarten Behaviors and Expectations At Forrest Street we use the Love and Logic approach with our students. Love and Logic® is a method of working with students which was developed by educational expert Jim Fay, child psychiatrist Foster W. Cline, M.D. and Charles Fay, Ph.D. Love and Logic has many tools for educators, principals and districts that promote healthy parent/teacher and teacher/student relationships and positive school wide discipline. Love and Logic.com