- Last year 19% of our kindergarten students started school needing intensive support to achieve grade level work. Children before the age of five years old can easily learn basic skills. 95% of parents can teach 95% of children basic entry level skills. We have staff that will help any child care provider or parent to teach these skills.
The District is going to focus on creating a community awareness of the need for entry level skills in kindergarten.
- Creating widespread awareness of appropriate kindergarten and age level targets among parents and child-care providers increases the number of students entering kindergarten with grade-level skills
- 12 to 15 alphabet letters and their sounds
- Identifying beginning and ending sounds in words
- 12 to 15 alphabet letters and their sounds
- Identifying beginning and ending sounds in words
- Counting to 20
- Knowing quantities to 10
- Reading to child 20 minutes per day
- Five minutes a day playing simple age appropriate activities
- Name 12 to 15 lower case letters including first name
- Sing and chant the ABC and number song, while pointing to letters and numbers
- Recite 5 to 10 nursery rhyme
- Beginning, middle and ending sounds
- Mastering social skills
- Like settling into a group
- Focusing on a task for five minutes
- Following three part instructions
- School Districts spend twice as much per child per year on students who need remediation.
- 95% of the parents can teach 95% of the incoming kindergarten students basic grade level skills