Mid Year Assessment

Students will be retaking their kindergarten readiness assessment starting the week of February 3rd. This marks the half way point of our year together. Once we return from Winter break, we will be working hard on naming letters and letter sounds. Over break it would be helpful if you could help your child practice skills that we have already covered so that we can move forward.

Skills Practiced So Far:

• Recognizing numbers 0-7.
• Counting quantities of items 0-7 and using the last number counted to answer “how many.”
• Writing numerals 0-7.
• Naming and ordering the letters in your child’s first name.
• Writing the letters in your child’s first name (using a capital letter for the first letter, and lowercase letters for the rest).
• Naming 10 colors (brown, white, purple, black, blue, red, yellow, pink, green, orange).
• Naming 6 shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, diamond/rhombus, oval)
• Finding the front cover/back cover of a book
• Recognizing the capital letters of our friends’ first names (O, A, B, S, T, M, R, N, H)
• Recognizing lowercase letters a, m, h, s

Skills introduced in January:

• Recognizing numbers 8-10
• Counting quantities of items up to 10, using the last number to indicate how many.
• Concepts of Print: reading first/last name, finding the first/last letter in first name, finding a capital letter.
• Introducing letter sounds/movements
• Naming lowercase letters in friends’ names.
• NEW sign in procedure to help children practice naming letters in first/last name.