Kindergarten Registration

Social & Emotional Development

Coping Skills

• Uses the toilet independently
• Follows routines and expectations
• Manages transitions and changes in routine
• Tolerates frustration appropriately
• Consistently separates easily from parents or caregivers
• Demonstrates age-appropriate dressing and eating skills
• Respect for others
• Respects peers and adults
• Respects his or her environment
• Understands that positive and negative actions have consequences

Social Skills

• Interacts appropriately with other children in large and small groups
• Takes turns with adults and peers
• Resolves conflicts with peers

Expressive Language Skills

• Communicates with peers and adults
• Communicates personal needs
• Uses words to ask for help
• Actively participates in conversations using reciprocal dialogue
• Responds to open-ended questions

Receptive Language Skills

• Listens attentively in large and small groups
• Follows 2-step directions independently (at onset of Kindergarten)

Attention and Focus

• Sustains attention during adult-directed activities for 10 minutes
• Sustains attention during self-selected activities for 15 minutes
• Exhibits impulse control

Social & Emotional Development

• Ensure that your child uses the toilet independently; encourage your child to wipe when necessary, flush the toilet and wash his/her hands after each use

• Wear clothes that he/she can manage independently

• Encourage your child to dress him/herself in the morning; before going out to play, have your child put his/her shoes on the correct feet, put on his/her jacket and zip or button it; in snowy weather, encourage your child to put on snow pants and boots on the correct feet

• Encourage your child to use a spoon or fork for food rather than fingers

• Use meal times and car rides to encourage conversations

• Allow children to experience and resolve conflict; help your child solve problems by offering alternative ways to do something or suggesting some words to use to resolve a conflict

• Prepare your child for transitions and routines with the use of timers (practice routines on the weekend when you are not in a rush to get to school)

• Encourage your child to express him/herself with words especially when becoming upset (e.g., not having immediate access to a desired item); encourage your child to identify the problem and possible solutions and then help your child to work out a solution

• Ensure that your child uses the toilet independently; encourage your child to wipe when necessary, flush the toilet and wash his/her hands after each use

• Model the use of phrases like “May I have a turn?” when playing a game or having a conversation

• Practice 2-step directions, using words like “First, then”; ask your child to repeat the directions back to you