Standards of Learning

Kindergarten

Social-Emotional Development

Independence

• Demonstrates increasing independence
• Demonstrates self-help skills
• Expresses feelings in appropriate ways that match the situation
• Assumes responsibility for actions

Social Skills

• Demonstrates interest & participates in classroom activities
• Respects differences in ability and appearance
• Accepts responsibility for maintaining the classroom environment

Cognitive Development

Receptive and Expressive Language

• Relates own experiences clearly
• Expresses ideas in complete sentences
• Participates in group discussions

Literacy

• Recognizes that pictures are related to text in books
• Retells a story in sequence
• Shows an interest in books and environmental print
• Understands print carries meaning
• Acquiring skills as an emerging reader

Problem Solving

• Shows curiosity and desire to learn
• Shows persistence in approaching tasks
• Observes and makes discoveries
• Applies information or experience to a new context

Math

• Counts forward and backwards
• Uses and writes numbers
• Generates and continues a pattern
• Sorts sets of mixed objects using various attributes
• Participates in verbal number stories
• Verbally counts 20 or more objects randomly arranged
• Skip counting by 2’s, 5’s &10’s
• Understands the basics of addition and subtraction in real situations, oral problems or on number lines
• Estimates comfortably
• Identifies and uses measuring tools for linear, weight and volume measures
• Performs simple data collecting and graphing
• Knows the value of a penny, nickel, dime; recognizes quarter 

Physical Development

Gross Motor Skills

• Defines his or her personal space
• Maintains control in play
• Moves safely and freely without interfering with others
• Climbs up and down equipment without falling
• Walks up and down steps using alternate feet

Fine Motor Skills

• Handles small manipulatives with ease
• Uses pincer control in picking up small objects
• Uses small muscles for self-help skills (i.e., buttons, zips, etc.)
• Uses writing and drawing tools with increasing control
• Right or left handedness is established
• Uses scissors appropriately
  • following a line
  • turning paper