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Kindergarten

My Goals for your Child -
Have fun and enjoy coming to school.
Feel that school is a safe place.
Develop a sense of belonging and security in the classroom.
Develop appropriate ways of responding to people.
Learn to accept limits and begin to establish them independently.
Develop an ability to express feelings
Learn to question, evaluate, compare, reason and problem solve.
To develop an interest and enjoyment of literature, art, music and science.
Cultivate an active, healthy imagination.

Social Development -
Cooperates, works and plays well with others
Helps others
Displays self control
Participates in activities
Follows rules.

Work Ethic -
Listens attentively.
Follows directions.
Work independently.
Tries to do best
Makes good use of time.
Accepts responsibility.

Reading Objectives -
Identify likes and differences in word forms.
Recognizes rhyming words.
Name upper and lower case letters of the alphabet
Name the beginning consonant sounds in spoken words.
Reads basic sight word and color words.
Indicate where a sentence starts and ends and use left to right motion when reading.
Make predictions and use picture clues to read.
Sequence a story with beginning middle and end.

Math Objectives -
Count to 100 by 1’s , 5’s, and 10’s.
Count to 10 by 2’s.
Recognize numbers to 20.
Show sequencing to 20.
Show one to one correspondence to 20.
Correctly write numerals 0—20.
Make patterns and graphs.
Sort and measure simple objects.
Do simple addition and subtraction problems to 20.


Writing Expectations -
Correctly form the capital and lower case letters of the alphabet.
Correctly write first and last name.
Apply letter/sounds as emergent writers.
Write simple sentences.