Waldo Community School

On the Kindergarten Report Card for Alachua County Public Schools, children are expected to demonstrate the following:
Personal and Social Habits
Works and plays with others willingly and cooperatively
Shows respect toward children and adults
Tries to solve own problems appropriately
Follows school and class rules
Assumes responsibility for school and personal property
Stays on task
Is able to share and take turns
Uses materials appropriately and returns when finished
Listens without interrupting or distracting others
Mathematics
When using manipulatives student is able to:
Copy and complete a pattern
Create a pattern with up to 3 elements
Put objects in groups by color, size, or shape
Sort a group of objects in more than one way
Determine which object is longer, shorter, larger, and smaller
Order a set of objects long to short, short to long
Tell which objects come 1st to 5th
Create sets showing more, less, and equal
Instantly recognize sets of objects to 5
Count objects with 1 to 1 correspondence
Order numbers 0 to 10
Find possible solutions to simple story problems
Interpret simple graphs
Identify 10 basic colors
Identify 4 basic shapes
Name numerals to 10
Write numerals to 10
Recognize penny, nickel, dime, and quarter
Language Arts
Speaks in complete sentences
Listens attentively to stories read aloud
Follows verbal instructions
Follows print left-right, top-bottom
Points to words as teacher reads them in a written text
Memorizes a simple rhyme, poem, or song
Identifies words seen over and over in familiar stories, rhymes, songs, or poems
Chooses reading or writing activities on his / her own
Uses letters to represent words or messages writing independently
Uses beginning sounds to represent words or messages
Reads or tells about own writing
Names upper case letters
Names lower case letters
Knows most beginning sounds
Writes first name using capital and lower case letters