Pre-Kindergartners need to know these concepts, before entering Kindergarten
Numbers:
Writes numbers
Identify and Recognizes numbers
Shapes:
Identify shapes: circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, cubes and pyramids
Counting:
Using dots or counters, count up to 20
Using dots or counters, make groups of a given number (5 dots= the # 5)
Using dots or counters represent numbers given (# 5= 5 dots)
Grouping counters in sets of a given number.
Comparing:
Groups of fewer and more
Full and Empty
Positions and Opposites Concepts:
Under and Over
Above and Below
Left and Right
Left, Middle and Right
Inside and Outside
Top and Bottom
Classifying:
By size
By Color
Same
Different
Number in the set
Sizes:
Long and Short
Tall and Short
Light and Heavy
Strong and Weak
Which holds more or less
Full and Empty
Graphing
Measuring Liquids or Items, using scales
Comparing items by height, weight, size and capacity
Wide and narrow
Money:
Identify, Recognize, and sort
Pennies and Nickels
Dimes and Quarters
Pennies, Dimes,Nickels and Quarters
Count Pennies
Adding and Subtraction:
Solve basic adding and subtraction problems, using counters