What Kindergarteners Learn
- Attention and social skills for large and small group interaction
- Songs, poems, and stories
- Beginning phonics, letter, and sight word recognition
- Oral language skills, both comprehension and expression
- Write all the letters and her name using proper capitalization
- Write with 'inventive' spelling
- Know his address and phone number
- Sorting, classifying, and counting with manipulative sets
- Recognize, say, and write numbers to 20
- Count by fives and tens
- Understand more than, less than, and equal to
- Addition, subtraction, and basic math problem solving with manipulative sets
- Identify and count coins
- Recognize where the big hand and little hand are on an analog clock and tell time to the hour
- Say the days of the week and the months of the year
- Facts about the seasons and holidays
- Characteristics of some plants and animals
- Parts of the body and the five senses
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Note to Parents...
Children, families, and schools vary so widely that it's possible only to state general guidelines for the skills needed to start the grade and those the child will learn in this grade. So, don't panic if your child or school doesn't match the list exactly. Just be aware of these skills and work on them with your child this year.
Child Development - The Five-Year Old
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