Ready for Kindergarten

  • 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

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