A lot of this list comes from the Iowa educational standards, although I added some things and took away others. I also used the lists of goals that accompany his Right Start Math and All About Spelling programs. I tried to find academic goals that were a natural progression from his current abilities. For better or worse, most of those came from the kindergarten level (which is why I labeled it both preschool and kindergarten goals). I'm not sure what that will mean when he is school age and has to go to school , but we will cross that bridge when we come to it. For now, I'll just work on keeping him stimulated and LOVING learning.
Literacy Goals
- Alphabetizing
- From beginning to end
- What letter comes next from a random point in the alphabet
- With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
- With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
- With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
- Understand beginning, middle, & ending sounds in words
- Sequence events from a story
- Be able to write all of the letters
- Identify basic punctuation(period, exclamation, question mark, comma, quotes)
- Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.
- Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.
- Recognize and produce rhyming words.
- Identify number of syllables
- Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words.
- Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how).
- Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I.
Math Goals
- Numeration
- Can count out 31 objects and arrange in groups of tens
- Can recognize quantities 1-100 and represent them on abacus
- Can represent quantities 1-100 with numbers (if not physically)
- Counting to 100
- By ones
- By fives
- By tens
- Count to 20 by 2s
- Knows ordinal numbers to 1st-10th
- Knows even numbers to 20
- Knows odd numbers to 19
- Money
- Can identify penny, nickel, dime, quarter, dollar
- Place value
- knows 10 ones is 1 ten
- knows 10 tens is 1 hundred
- knows, for example, 45 as 4-ten 5
- Addition
- Understands addition as combining parts to form a whole or putting together
- Knows number combinations equal to 10
- knows number combinations up to 10
- Subtraction
- Understands subtraction as missing addend
- Understands subtraction as separating or taking apart
- Problem Solving
- Can solve addition problems
- Can solve missing addend problems
- Geometry
- Knows mathematical names of triangle, rectangle, and circle
- Recognizes 3D shapes
- Knows parallel and perpendicular lines
- Can continue a pattern
- Mentally rotate a 2D shape (tangrams)
- Time
- Knows days of the week
- Knows months of the year
- Can tell time to the hour
- Identify math symbols +, -, =, <, >
- Compare numbers (greater than, less than, equal to)
- Compare attributes
- Which holds more, takes up more space, is longer, is wider, etc
- Sort by categories
Science Goals
- Asking questions and defining problems
- Making observations
- Making and testing predictions
- Understanding cause and effect
- Identifying and continuing patterns
- Scale, Proportion and Quantity
- use relative scales (e.g., bigger and smaller; hotter and colder; faster and slower) to describe objects
Practical Life
- Tying shoes
- Sweeping
- Cleaning table
- Hanging towels/wash cloths
- Dressing and undressing by himself
