Self Help Skills

• Can use the bathroom independently and complete accompanying hygiene tasks 
• Able to dress self (puts on coat, fastens snaps, buttons and zippers
• States full name and age
• Can blow nose without help and sneeze/cough into elbow.

Social/Emotional Skills

• Separates from caregivers without excessive upset
• Plays/shares with other children
• Waits his turn
• Attends to an adult-directed task for at least 5 minutes
• Recognizes and responds to other people’s feelings

Language Skills (Expressive and Receptive)

• Expresses needs and wants verbally
• Speaks in complete sentences (5 to 6 words)
• Is generally understood by adults
• Uses words, not physical action, to express emotions such as anger or disappointment
• Understands and follows two-step directions
• Understands positional vocabulary (i.e. on top of, below, next to)

Fine Motor Skills

• Able to control scissors to complete an intentional task
• Traces lines and basic shapes
• Copies basic figures such as a circle, square and a straight line

Gross Motor Skills

• Runs and skips
• Jumps with feet together and hops while balancing on one foot.
• Climbs stairs with alternating feet
• Walks backwards
• Bounces a kickball
• Attempts a two-handed catch of a kickball

Math Skills

• Counts from 1 to 10
• Recognizes/points to/identifies basic shapes (square, circle, triangle, rectangle)
• Beginning to count with one-to-one correspondence
• Can sort items by one or more attributes
• Identifies, either verbally or by pointing to colours.

Literacy/Phonemic Awareness Skills

• Enjoys being read to/listening to stories
• Recognizes environmental print (familiar logos, signs and words)
• Knows how to handle a book (i.e. holds book right side up, knows where it starts and ends)
• Recognizes own name in print
• Tries to write own name or other ideas by using symbols or letters
• Can draw a picture to express an idea

 

 

• I can turn my sleeves out of my coat.
• I can take off/put on my coat.
• I can zip up/do the buttons up on my coat.
• I can hang up my coat.
• I wear Velcro runners until I can tie laces.
• I can open and close my schoolbag.
• I can open and close my lunchbox and any lunch items (fruit, straws, yogurt etc).
• I can tidy up after myself.
• I try tasks independently so I will be able to walk into school in line with my class and teacher in September.
• I can blow my nose properly and sneeze/cough into elbow.
• I can put things into my schoolbag.
• I can wait my turn.
• I can share with my friends
• I can sit on my chair properly.
• I can recognise and write my own name (See attached page for practice).
• I can cut using a children’s scissors – thumb at the top scissors hole (see attached page for practice)
• I can colour pictures using correct colours and appropriate pencil grip (see below for diagram).
• I can look after my own belongings which my mum and dad have labelled.
• I can look after myself in the bathroom.
• I can wash my hands properly after using the bathroom.