Stepping Stones Home Child Care, Inc.

Kindergarten Checklist

Here are some suggestions for ways you can help prepare your child/ren for kindergarten.
 
*Provided by Plainfield School District #202

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Illustration: In the schoolyard

At the age of 4, we help your child/ren prepare for kindergarten using the "check list" below.  We periodically add the following activities using books, flashcards, and music:
 
 ~ Phonemic awareness
 ~ Rhyming words
 ~ Syllable segmentation
 ~ Sound substitution
 ~ Sound isolation
 ~ Phonemic segmentation, and
 ~ Reading comprehension
 
 

Getting ready for kindergarten!
 
As your child shows you s/he can do things, check them off the list!

By Myself

___  Use the bathroom independently

___  Use good health skills (independently use a Kleenex, cover my mouth with elbow when I cough or sneeze)

___  Say my address and phone number

___  Puts away materials before starting a new activity

 

Social Skills

___  Share and take turns

___  Keep my hands to myself

___  Manage my own feelings appropiately for school (calm myself down when angry)

 

Language

___  Tell about books, movies, TV shows

___  Listen to you tell me how to make cookies, build a toy, play ball, ride a bike, etc. and talk to you about it

___  Tell you a story

 

My Name

___  Say my name (first and last, including formal and nicknames e.g. Jenny for Jennifer)

___  Write my name

___  Find my name

 

Alphabet Letters

___  Say the letters in my name

___  Know many upper and lower case letters

___  Make letters on paper, with playdough, on sand

 

Alphabet Sounds

___  Beginning to know words that begin with the same sound (baby, ball, boy)

___  Tell you some sounds that letters make (M = mmm; J = juh)

___  Tell you the first sound of a picture

 

Writing Skills

___  Draw a picture and tell a story about it

___  Pretend to write a story using scribbles or strings of letters

___  Tell you what I wrote

___  Write using a pencil, crayon, marker

 

Motor Skills

___  Hold and use scissors correctly

___  Hold a pencil with a 3-finger grip

___  Practice independently zipping, buttoning, and tying

 

Listening

___  Sit and listen to a story

___  Follow 3 steps directions:
                     1. Go get your crayons.
                     2. Go to your seat.
                     3. Begin to work.

___  Tell you what words mean (example: a flashlight helps you see in the dark, umbrella keeps you dry in the rain, etc)

 

Books

___  Hold a book right side up

___  Turn pages in a book

___  Know where the words and pictures are in a book

 

Math

___  Count to 20 or higher

___  Count things around me (example: How many forks are on the table?)

___  Know shapes in my environment

___  Know and understand simple patterns (fork, spoon, fork, spoon, etc)


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