Kinder Goals

Although we are planning to school off & on throughout the summer, the warm weather & lake callin’ my name has made me start to take into consideration my plans for the Mustangs for next year. At the beginning of this school year I started PreKinder – a mix of Preschool & Kindergarten. I just didn’t feel that Tucker was completely ready for Kindergarten. As our year progressed, Trevor blew my mind when he started grasping all the concepts I was hoping to teach Tucker. At first, Tucker didn’t care – he had fish to catch & goats to chase. Slowly, he realized though that his little brother was passing him up. The competitiveness in him got the better of him & he began to learn with leaps & bounds. I realize that a lot can change in the next 3 months, but at this point it is looking like both my boys will be moving into mostly 1st grade work. ((sniff)) ((sniff))

Last year I made a L-O-N-G list of goals for our “PreKinder” school year. Here is where we currently stand:

Language:
Recognizes capital letters
Recognizes lower-case letters
Matches at least half capital letters with lower-case letters
Copies/Writes letters
Recognizes letter sounds
Recognizes sight words
Recognizes beginning sounds of words
Identifies & writes first & last name in print
Names time of the day
Names days of the week
Names months of the year
Simple rhyming
Repeats simple 8-10 word sentences
Retell stories/events (first, middle, end)
Tells what's happening in a picture
Understands basic parts of a book (front, back)
-Illustrator, Author
-Holds book correctly
-Indicates where to begin reading
Memory Work
-Easy poems, nursery rhymes, scriptures (ABC scriptures)
Personal Info:
Address
Phone number
Birthday
Age
Parents Names
"About Me"
Boundaries at home
Motor Skills:
Zip
Button
Snap
Tie shoes
Catch/throw ball
Maintain balance
Skip
Pull/Push
Bending
Stringing Beads
Cutting
Puzzles
Hold a pencil
Social Skills:
Understands Rules
Listens w/o interrupting (LOL)
Stays involved in self-selected activity for 15-20 minutes
Follows simple verbal directions
Recognizes dangerous situations
Understands cause & effect
Sharing
Independence - CHORES!
Self-control
Identifies feelings
Social Studies/Geography/History:
Holidays
Common occupations
What is a family - family members
Understanding of city/town, state, country, continent
Recognizes Texas on a state map
Understanding of a globe & maps
Directions (N,S,E,W)
Understanding of lake, river, pond, island
Our World
-Space
-Oceans & Continents
American History
-Our country
-American Flag
-President
Science:
Seasons
Weather
Earth
Plants
Animals (simple life-cycles)
Human Body (sensory)
Magnetism
Science Opposites (sink/float, solid/liquid, etc)
Math:
Recognizes numbers
Counts to 20
Copies numbers w/o reversal
Pairs & counts objects
Counts objects in sets from 0-10
Constructs objects in sets from 0-10
Matches objects in sets from 0-10
Pairs
Understands concepts of addition & subtraction
Adds to 10
First - Fifth
Identifies, names, & draws basic shapes when shown an example
Identifies left & right
Sorts objects (classifying)
Places objects in order
Demonstrates with objects: on, above, below, beside, under, on top of, behind, over
Understands: more than, less than, equal, one more, one less
Patterns of at least 3
Halves
Full, Half Full, Empty
Identifies size, length
Identifies money (penny, nickle, dime, quarter)
Tells simple time
Understands a calendar
Simple graph
Counting by 2's, 5's, & 10's