Kindergarten Expectations

Many parents fear sending their child to Kindergarten because of the new demands you hear about from neighbors, friends, and media.  Kindergarten is not what it use to be twenty years ago.  What will they have to master by the time the school year ends?  How can I prepare them for the transition?  It can be especially overwhelming to new parents.  Below is a list of year end goals we want a child to achieve by the time the school year ends.

Language Arts

• Recognize all upper and lowercase letters.
• Name all letter sounds.
• Be able to isolate the beginning, middle, and ending sound in words.
• Spell consonant-vowel-consonant words (CVC words)
• Provide words that rhyme.
• Be able to read emergent level text independently.  (A book with approximately 80 words.)  

Writing

• Write a sentence beginning with a capital letter, uses finger spaces, and uses correct punctuation.
• Form letters of the alphabet correctly.

Math

• Recognize and order numbers from 0 - 30.
• Count to 100 by ones.
• Understand terms greater than, less than, and equal.
• Complete single digit addition and subtraction independently.  
• Compare sets of objects and shapes.

The attached link, also, provides some wonderful information.  I encourage you to read this short article!
http://www.education.com/magazine/article/Falling_Love_with_School_What/