Mrs. Townsend's Kindergarten

Progress reports are sent home at the end of each 9-week grading period. The assessments are designed to align with the State of Tennessee Curriculum guidelines and the Cleveland City Schools Pacing Guide for curriculum.

The skills assessed at the end of the school year are listed below.

1st Nine Weeks - Green, 2nd Nine Weeks - Blue, 3rd Nine Weeks - Red, 4th Nine Weeks - Purple

Language Arts/ Reading

• Spells own first name, both orally and written.
• Sequences events in a story
• Recites poems, stories and songs from memory.
• Names all uppercase letters
• Names all lowercase letters
• Builds vocabulary by participating in whole-class shared reading and discussions
• Follows 2-step directions to develop listening skills
• Speaks clearly, properly, and politely and recognizes the difference between formal and informal language. (e.g. "I will play with her" rather than "Me go with you."
• Uses appropriate capitalization when writing names.
• Recognizes and produces rhyming words
• Uses sound stretching of one syllable words to identify each sound (dog = /d/, /o/, /g/)
• Uses sound blending to make words (/p/,/a/,/t/ = pat)
• Recognizes words that have the same beginning sounds
• Produces letter sounds in correspondence with appropriate letters
• Recognizes the need for capitalization at the beginning of sentences.
• Spells own last name, both orally and written.
• Uses discussions and illustrations to preview text, make predictions and to comprehend basic story elements (main idea, character, setting and plot.)
• Recognizes words that have the same ending sounds
• Uses letter-sound matches to decode simple words
• Reads 25 of the 100 most frequent sight words with ease
• Reads simple text containing familiar letter-sound correspondences and high frequency words
• Recognizes the need for punctuation marks for statements, questions, and emotions.
• Spells simple words using knowledge of letters and letter sounds.
• Demonstrates that words are made up of one or more syllables, (e.g. student claps syllables in words.)

Writing

• Forms legible upper and lower case letters, without the use of a model.
• Writes on a page using correct directionality (left to right and top to bottom)
• Use creative spelling to write independently.

Math

• Sorts objects and describes how they are sorted.
• Names, identifies and describes arributes of shapes: Circle Square Triangle Rectangle Hexagon Trapezoid
• Identifies positional words (right, left, over, under, on, inside, outside, above, below, between, forward, backward, top, middle, bottom, near and far.)
• Names and creates patterns
• Counts sets of objects to 25.
• Counts backward from 10 to 1.
• Recognizes numbers 0 - 25.
• Matches quantities up to 25 with numerals.
• Orders numbers 0 - 25.
• Identifies "equal to", "more than", and "less than" using 10 or fewer objects.
• Collects and counts data using a graph
• Names, identifies and describes characteristics of solid figures: Sphere Cube Cone Cylinder
• Uses words to describe time (day, night, morning, yesterday, etc.)
• Recognizes the calendar as a way to measure time and days.
• Applies the language of ordinals from first to tenth.
• Counts by ones to 50.
• Counts by tens to 50.
• Counts by twos to 20.
• Writes numbers in order to 25, without a model.
• Tells time to the hour.
• Names and identifies coins and their values.
• Uses words to describe temperature.
• Recognizes a thermometer as a way to measure temperature.
• Compares length, weight, and capacity of two objects.
• Matches quantities zero - ten with written number words.
• Orders number words zero - ten.
• Adds single digit numbers with a sum beween 0 and 10.
• Subtracts using numbers 10 or less.
• Solves simple story problems involving numbers 0 - 10.