A few people were wondering if what their children were doing was normal so I thought I'd use my son's Kindergarten report card to show what has to be known here by the end of the year. This might show you what most 5 year olds are learning.

I'm just going to list everything:


  • Alphabet recognition (upper and lower case)
  • letter sounds (haven't started yet this year)
  • Sight words (haven't started yet): I, of, was, on, here, it, to, me, like, we, and, see, she, come, am, he, are, go, a, in, can, the, said, is, at, my, up, look, you, have
  • Beginning sounds in words (start after winter break)
  • recognize numbers 0-20
  • rhyming words
  • word awareness (awareness of words in a sentence)
  • sound blending (blends sounds into a word)
  • segments words (separates sounds in a word)
  • identifies parts of a book
  • identifies basic punctuation
  • directionality (left, right, top, bottom)
  • one-to-one matching (when asked to point to printed text as it is read orally)
  • differentiates between letters, words and spacing in written text
  • retells a story
  • oral language (understands and uses age appropriate language)
  • prints first and last name
  • counts to 20
  • knows basic colors
  • identifies circle, square, triangle, rectangle
  • sequences numerals 0 to 10
  • identifies, continues and creates patterns
  • sort sets by color, shape and size
  • count number of objects in a set to 10
  • knows forward/backward, in/out, front/back, right/left, above
  • graphing
  • knows longer, heavier, straight, ordinal positions
  • time - morning, afternoon, night, yesterday, today, tomorrow, telling time to the hour
  • money - names of coins and values
  • using up to 10 concrete objects the student demonstrates the concepts of addition and subtraction