Getting Ready For Kindergarten Checklist

·   Listen to stories without interrupting

·   Recognize rhyming sounds

·   Pay attention for short periods of time to adult-directed tasks

·   Understand actions have both causes and effects

·   Show understanding of general times of day

·   Cut with scissors

·   Trace basic shapes

·   Begin to share with others

·   Start to follow rules

·   Be able to recognize authority

·   Manage bathroom needs

·   Button shirts, pants, coats, and zip up zippers

·   Begin to control oneself

·   Separate from parents without being upset

·   Speak understandably

·   Talk in complete sentences of five to six words

·   Look at pictures and then tell stories

·   Identify rhyming words

·   Identify the beginning sound of some words

·   Identify some alphabet letters

·   Recognize some common sight words like "stop"

·   Sort similar objects by color, size, and shape

·   Recognize groups of one, two, three, four, and five objects

·   Count to ten

·   Bounce a ball

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  • Have strong self management skills

  • works independently

  • makes his/her own choices without teacher or parent interaction

• show willingness to try something new, is not apprehensive about new situations after a short adjustment period
• wait his/her turn in a group situation in play, during snacks, sharing materials
• interacts well with other children on an equal footing
• negotiate most of his/her own social problems fairly successfully
• express his/herself well to communicate what he/she does and does not understand
• has strong self-confidence and self-esteem