3. Beginning of Year Kindergarten
Readiness ChecklistSocial
• Able to play, take turns, and share with others
• Able to take care of self in bathroom
• Able to put on coat, tie shoes, etc.
Emotional
• Able to separate from parents
• Able to adjust to new situations
School Skills
• Able to sit and listen to a short story
• Able to listen while others are speaking
• Able to color in the lines
• Able to hold scissors and start to cut on the lines
• Able to recognize colors
• Able to listen to two or three step directions
• Able to organize belongings in a folder
• Able to focus on a task for at least 10 minutes
Carpool
• Able to open and close the car door
• Able to buckle the seatbelt
4. Readiness Skills for Success in
Kindergarten
• Name 15 letters (capital & lower case) in random order
• Identify and produce corresponding letter sounds for 15
letters
• Say the beginning sound of words
• Say words that rhyme
• Clap the syllables in words
• Tell what happens in a story that is read to them
• Print first name (1st letter should be capital and the rest
should be lower case)
• Know the difference between letters and numbers and letters
and words
• Count in order to 20
• Count objects to find how many (up to groups of 10)
• Recognize four basic shapes (square, circle, triangle,
rectangle)
5. Foundational Skills
• Recognize & print all capital and lower case
letters
• Recognize corresponding letter sounds,
including long and short vowel sounds
• Read 8 color words with automaticity
• Read 40 sight words with automaticity
• Read CVC word families (kit, bit, sit)
• Read CVCe words (kite, bite, site)
• Demonstrate comprehension of fiction and
nonfiction texts
Kindergarten English Language Arts Curriculum
6. Kindergarten English Language Arts Curriculum
Writing
• Capitalize first word in sentence
and pronoun I
• Recognize and use end punctuation
• Spell simple words phonetically
• Use drawing, dictating, and writing
to compose narrative, informative, &
opinion texts
• Participate in research projects
7. Kindergarten English Language Arts Curriculum
Phonemic Awareness is a recognition that spoken words
are composed of several individual sounds. Phonemic
Awareness focuses on sound units (phonemes).
• Recognize & produce rhyming words
• Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in
spoken words
• Blend and segment onset and rime of single-syllable
spoken words
• Isolate and pronounce the first, medial vowel, and
final sound in CVC words
Note: Phonemic Awareness can be done in the dark!
8. Kindergarten Math Curriculum
• Recognize & construct 2 and 3
dimensional shapes
• Count, recognize, name and print
numbers 0-20
• Identify numbers 0-30
• Count to 100 by ones and tens
• Compare numbers and sets of objects
• Identify place value for numbers 11-19
• Solve addition equations within sums of
10 (memorize facts 0-5)
• Solve subtraction equations within
differences of 10 (memorize facts 0-5)
9. Donaldson Kindergarten Supplies
Please do not put your
name on...
* 4 boxes of 24 count
Crayola crayons
(please make sure they
are Crayola brand)
* 4 large glue sticks
*1 box of tissues
* 1 box of sandwich size
ziploc bags
*1 box of one gallon
ziploc bags
*One bottle of hand
sanitizer
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*Folder(needed daily)
* Pencil Box(5in x 8in)(will
remain at school)
* Large Backpack(needed
daily)
Paint Shirt-will remain in
backpack for Art Days
