Getting Ready For Kindergarten

Getting Ready For Kindergarten ~ At All God's Children's MDO Preschool in Bastrop Texas at 287 FM 20. 512-629-3014 or 512-581-7488-Ms.Vonda's Pre-K

Activities that include practicing these Skills are included in all Pre-K Daily
Lesson Plans at All God’s Children Mother’s Day Out.

The children’s days are busy. Their days include Math, Literacy, Gross
 Motor, Fine Motor, Social Development, Health & Safety, Science, Art,
Music, Dramatic Play and Social Studies

Kindergarten Readiness Skills :

• Can sit on the Circle Time Rug and participate during Circle Time
• Can walk in line with classmates
• Is able to follow learning centers rules
• Participates during music activities and finger plays 
• Joins others in Pretend Play while in Dramatic Play Center 
• Begins to develop pincer control in picking up objects 
• Holds scissors correctly
• Holds a pencil or crayon properly
• Begins to coordinate arms and legs
• Runs, jumps and skips
• Walks up and down stairs
• Shows a steady increase in listening & speaking vocabulary 
• Uses words instead of hands for hitting 
• Joins in play with other children 
• Can follow simple directions 
• Expresses feelings and needs 
• Goes to the bathroom by him or herself 
• Listens with increasing attention 
• Waits his or her turn and shares 
• Talks in sentences 
• Asks questions about things around him or her 
• Takes care of the books in the Library Center 
• Enjoys having books read to him or her  
• Can spend extended periods away from Mom and Dad 
• Recognizes shapes (square, circle, triangle, rectangle)  
• Can sort items by color, shape and size   
• Can identify six parts of his or her body 
• Understands concept words such as up, down, in, out, behind, under and over 
• Counts from 1 to 30 or higher 
• Can recognize five colors 
• Writes his or her name 
• Recognizes his or her written name
• Can say his or her full name 
• Knows how old he or she is 
• Knows his or her mother and father's first names  

• Other Skills that are Introduced :

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• Can name Months, Days, Seasons, Weather Words and can read them by the end of the school year. (can spell some words) 
• Knows Letter Sounds
• Recognizes Letters – Letter Knowledge-Print Awareness
• Recognizes Numbers
• Recognizes Some Sight Words
• Can read each other’s names 
• Knows how to use One to One correspondence
• Is writing Letters, Numbers, Wall Words, Names and more
• Recognizes Environmental Print and Other Words
• Child recites numbers from one to thirty or more.
• Phonological Awareness – begins to notice rhyming words and the sounds in spoken words.