KindergartenKindergarten is such an exciting year. We are so thankful to join with you in making your child love school and continue to develop their skills!
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Readiness Skills
The Columbia Great Start Readiness Program uses a research based, high quality curriculum focusing on all areas of children's development. Parents and teachers partner together support children throughout these crucial first years.
Parents are a child's first teacher. Parents can help support children in their learning by talking, reading, and playing. Phones and tablets can never replace the impact of one on one time spent with your child.
Skills for Kindergarten Readiness
- Self Help Skills - Foster Independence
- Learn to use the bathroom independently
- Play and share with others
- Take turns
- Attend to a task for at least 5 minutes
- Recognize and respond to other people's feelings
- Uses words, not physical reaction, to express emotions such as anger and disappointment
- Clean up toys and belongings
- Can be redirected by an adult
- Express needs and wants verbally
- Speaks in 4-6 word sentences
- Understands and follows two step directions
- Understands positional words (on top, below, next to)
- Holds and pencil/crayon in a non-fist grip
- Able to control scissors
- Traces lines and shapes
- Copies basic shapes such as a circle, square, and a straight line
- Run, hop, jump and skip
- Bounce and catch a ball
- Count to 10
- Recognize basic shapes (square, circle, rectangle, triangle)
- Beginning to count objects
- Can sort objects by one or more attributes (color, shape, size)
- Identify and name colors
- Enjoy listening to stories
- Recognize environmental print (logos and signs)
- Knows how to handle a book
- Recite the alphabet
- Recognize and name letters and numbers
- Able to discern whether two words rhyme
- Tries to write own name or other ideas using symbols or letters
- Can draw a picture to express an idea