Author: Mary Lou Kaeppel

Almond-Bancroft Elementary
Kindergarten
“I CAN”
Statements
What should you expect your child to learn this year in kindergarten? How does his or her learning growth measure up to state standards?
This brochure has your answers.

What are “I CAN” Statements?
I Can Statements:
Are set as goals for your child’s learning at his/her grade level
Ensure that teachers instruct skills and concepts appropriate to your child’s development
Help assess student achievement throughout the year
Allow your child’s teacher to better assist your child

Writing
Use illustrations, dictation and writing to express opinions, create informational text and write life experience stories
Write so other people can read it with spaces between words, capitalizing the first word of sentences, using ending punctuation and spelling simple words phonetically
Publish my writing
Learn and understand new words and phrases
Form letters correctly using lines and spaces

Reading
Ask and answer questions
Retell stories
Identify characters, settings and events in a story
Predict what will happen next
Tell the beginning, middle and end of a story
Recognize types of text (storybooks, poems)
Define what the author and illustrator of a story do
Describe how the illustrations support the text
Read with a group and understand what I’ve read
Identify the front, back cover and title page of book
Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts
Understand that printed text is composed of letters, words, sentences, spaces and is read left to right top to bottom
Put sounds together to read a word
Read and understand text at my level

Speaking and Listening
Participate in group discussions on topic
Speak and express thoughts, feelings and ideas clearly
Talk when it is my turn
Listen when others are talking
Follow simple directions

Math
Counting and Cardinality
Count to 100 by ones and by tens
Write numbers from 0 to 30
Count objects in a group (up to 30)
Tell which group is greater than, less than, or equal
Compare two written numbers (1-10)
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Solve addition and subtraction problems within 10
Fluently add and subtract within 5
Tell different ways to make a number
Explain math sign +, -, and =
Show 1 more or 1 less
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Work with numbers 11-19 in many ways
Show the tens place and the ones place
Measurement and Data
Compare/order objects using length, weight and size
Sort objects
Make a graph to answer a question
Geometry
Identify shapes (square, circle, triangle, rectangle, hexagon, cube, cone, cylinder and sphere)
Describe everyday objects using the shape names
Identify, compare and create two and three dimensional shapes
Use shapes together to make larger shapes
Time/Calendar
Use a calendar
Tell time to the hour
Almond-Bancroft School District Almond, WI