This kindergarten portfolio for Joseph Price contains: 1) A summary of his strengths in recognizing letters and numbers and helping in the classroom, as well as areas to develop like memorizing personal information and raising his hand. 2) Examples of his work recognizing letters and numbers, counting, sorting, telling stories, and developing gross motor skills. 3) Documentation of his participation and comprehension in class activities like retelling stories and discussing similarities and differences between classmates.

1. Kindergarten 2013/14
Portfolio of:
Joseph Price

2. Hugs & Hopes
Hugs
- Can identify 25/26
uppercase and lowercase
letters! Great job!
- Can count to 100 +
- Great helper within the
classroom
- Plays well with other students
Hopes
- Work on memorizing birthday
and address
- Work on raising hand with
ideas instead of shouting out
answers
- Begin learning letter sounds

3. Personal Knowledge
Development
I know my:
— First and last name
— Address (I know my the house number and am still
learning my street name)
— Telephone number
I am still learning my birthday
Click here to listen

4. Here are
some of the
things I like
and dislike in
Kindergarten:

5. I can print my name using
upper and lowercase letters

6. I can draw a person and
include lots of detail and
many body parts.
Self portrait:
September 2013
Family: October
2013

7. Letter recognition
I can identify 25/26 capital letters and 25/26 lowercase
letters! (click on the picture to watch the video)

8. Number recognition
I can identify all my numbers from 0-10! (click on the picture to
watch the video)

9. Counting
I can count from 1- 120!
Click here to listen:

10. I can follow directions

11. Here is an example of how I can
colour in the lines and cut with
scissors

12. Language and Communication: use picture cues to tell a
story in proper sequence with minimal prompting
Click here to listen to my story:

13. Math concepts: Creating a pattern
I can create a
repeating
pattern.
Here is a sample
I created
November 2013.

14. Math concepts: Sorting and classifying
I can sort objects and explain my sorting rule
(click on the picture to watch the video)

15. Language and Communication:
Show and Share
Click here to listen to
an example of my
show and share from
November 12, 2013:

16. Physical Development
Here are some
videos (click on
each picture)
that show my
gross motor
development. I
can balance on
one foot for 10
seconds and
skip.

17. Here are examples of some
of the activities I have done
in class

18. CRK.4 Comprehend, retell, and respond to basic ideas in
stories, poems, songs, and informational texts read to them.
After reading the story “There Was an Old Lady
Who Swallowed Some Leaves” Joseph and his
group members put the objects in the order
they were “swallowed” in the story.

19. INK.1 Demonstrate an understanding of similarities and differences
among individuals in the classroom.
— Students discussed similarities and differences and
were asked to give one example of a difference
between themselves and a partner and one
similarity.
Listen to the examples I gave by clicking here

20. Jospeh works in a group to match capital letters
with corresponding lower case letters and puts
them in alphabetical order