Kindergarten Expectations:

By the end of the Kindergarten year, all kindergarten

students should be able to master the following skills:
-Name all upper and lower case letters in random order.
-Segment words into phonemes (cat = /c/ /a/ /t/).
-Blend phonemes into words ( /p/ /l/ /a/ /y/ = play).
-Identify letter/sound relationships (b = /b/).
-Identify beginning and ending sounds.
-Understand the meaning of author, illustrator, main idea,
setting, characters, sequence, retelling, and predicting.
-Recognize sight words (80% or 40/50).Count to 100 by 1s and 10s.
-Read, write, order, and compare numbers to 20.
-Use basic addition and subtraction facts up to 10.
-Identify shapes (circle, oval, rectangle, square, triangle).
-Describe objects in position (above, below, beside, in
front of, behind, next to).
-Identify colors.
-Recite Days of the Week and Months of the Year.
-Compare weather (four seasons, types of weather)

Kindergarten Word List

I

find
from

said

have

am

was

one
every

red

the

came

yellow

and

but

ate

help

on

could

ask

like

good

blue

orange we

see
will

she
walk

black
green

be

over

to

into

very

brown

come

her

look

that
all

their
when
out

pink

with
my

purple

who

me

some

your

saw

white

go
away

he

put

of

one

what

our
are

you

for

here

must

two

they
soon

by

zero

no

day

three

take

four

is

up

how
of

make

now

there

too
five

them

went

do

at

show

seven

six

so

give

only
it

eight

many

play

down

in

nine
where

say

just

yes

little

help

ten

this

new