Kindergarten Standards
KINDERGARTEN
Summary Report Information
(based on NCEE and NCTM Standards and Minnesota Academic Standards)
Personal and Social Development Personal
* Shows eagerness and curiosity toward learning
* Follows classroom rules and routines
* Accepts responsibility for own behavior
Social
* Interacts well with others, individually, and in groups
* Respects rights and property of others Resolves conflict peacefully
Work Habits
* Organizes work
* Shows initiative, works independently, and uses time productively
* Turns in completed assignments on time
* Shows commitment to quality work
Reading
* Learns and uses new vocabulary
* Speaks clearly and tells ideas
* Listens and listens and responds appropriately
* Shows knowledge of letters and their sounds
* Reads familiar words
* Understands concepts of print
* Understands what is read
* Writes, draws, or tells a response to literature
GENRES OF WRITING REQUIRED FOR KINDERGARTEN
Narrative Writing
• Creates a story that may be a single event or several events loosely linked, which the author may react to, comment on, evaluate, sum up or tie together
• Tells events in chronological order
• Includes drawings to support meaning
• Incorporates storybook language
Report/informational writing
• Gathers, collects and shares information about a topic
• Maintains a focus- stays on topic
• Excludes extraneous information when prompted
Procedure/functional writing
• Tells someone what to do
• Names or labels objects and places
Response to Literature
• Re-enacts and retells stories
• Creates stories, poems, plays, and songs
Mathematics
* Uses many ways to solve and explain thinking about problems
* Counts, reads, writes, compares, and renames numbers
* Understands and uses addition and subtraction using real objects
* Describes and completes patterns
* Sorts and compares objects
* Records and interprets data
* Sorts and describes shapes
* Finds and describes locations of objects
* Recognizes coins
* Understands concepts of time
* Estimates and measures using standard and nonstandard units
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