Preparing for Kindergarten
Kindergarten Readiness
The following are skills that teachers hope a kindergartner can do when she/he enters school:
- Say his/her fist and last names
- Recognize (read) his/her own name
- Write his/her fist name
- Count to 20
- Recognize the numerals 1 – 10
- Identify geometric shapes
- Know 8 basic colors
- Stay on task for 10 minutes
- Sit quietly to listen to a story
- Follow two-step directions
- Initiate and sustain play with peers
- Manage his / her work space and tools
- Verbally express needs (bathroom, drink, pencil, etc.)
- Speak in complete sentences
- Verbally and appropriately respond to a topic
- Dress himself / herself
- Buckle, button, and zip clothes
- Tie own shoelaces
- Tend to personal bathroom needs
