Social-emotional
• Functions as a member of a group
• Copes with mild frustration
• Takes care of personal needs (going to the bathroom, zipping jacket)
Language
• Takes turns listening and speaking
• Asks and responds to questions
• Follows two-step instructions
• Understands common directional words (below, between, above)
Academic
• Knows alphabet and capital and lowercase letters
• Knows most letter sounds• Decodes simple three-letter words
• Writes name
• Listens to stories
• Understands story concepts of beginning, middle, and end
• Can count to at least ten• Recognizes similarities and differences
• Can write a simple sentence with invented spelling
Anyone out there know if this list has changed since 2004??? Now it seems that Zack is expected to write his numbers 1-100 and be able to write a letter without spelling errors and he is midyear in kindergarten. Does anyone else find this ridiculous??? He's a smart kid who just mastered English for heaven's sake!
If you can't tell, I am slightly frustrated with the (effing) kindergarten expectations. What ever happened to the fun that kindergarten once was????
4 comments:
Zack's teacher is either crazy, or the requirements in place now are LUDICROUS! (Oh my, I hope I spelled that right!)
I feel your pain.....
Deana, that has to be a joke! I can't even believe that stuff for 1st grade, let alone kindergarten. Schooling is ridiculous now. I'm seriously tempted to homeschool my kids. What is wrong with these people?
I second that! What are they doing to our kids? What happened with learning nursery rhymes, playing "Ring around the roses" etc? Is it because all the B...S... about no child left behind? Sorry but you touched a sensitive spot.
It is quite differentthan what it used to be. I teach pre k (4 and 5 year olds) and the requirements are crazy. We use the A Beka program and one of the requirements listed on the sheet I keep by my desk is "begin cursive handwriting". I just shake my head and skip it.
Schooling is no longer about fun, but trying to keep up with the other coutries. It's very annoying.
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