Watch the kindergarten prep video series to learn and understand how you can help prepare your child for kindergarten and the beginning of their educational career!

 

The skills below provide a strong foundation for learning and success in kindergarten:

• Enthusiasm for learning: Is your child eager to explore and discover? Comfortable asking questions? Able to persist when a task is difficult?
• Demonstrates independence: Does your child take responsibility for personal belongings? Use the bathroom by him or herself?
• Functions in a group situation: Can your child take turns in a small or large group? Successfully change from one activity to another? Get attention appropriately? Follow a routine?
• Works and plays cooperatively with other children and adults.
• Uses a variety of words in talking with others: Does your child use complete sentences with four to six words? Communicate needs and feelings appropriately? Try to use new words?
• Listens and understands: Does your child respond appropriately to simple statements, questions, and stories? Can your child follow simple instructions? Listen to an entire story? Recall parts of a story?
• Shows an interest in books and reading.
• Holds and uses markers, pencils, crayons, and scissors.
• Names upper and lowercase letters: Can your child name 10-20 uppercase letters and 10-20 lowercase letters?
• Recognizes and prints their own name.
• Explores and uses numbers: Can your child count forward to 20 and count backward from five? Count 10-20 objects accurately? Does your child understand "more" and "less" when looking at a group of objects? Recognize some printed numbers? Quickly recognize one to five objects in a group without counting?
• Recognizes basic shapes and colors: Can your child name and recognize a circle, square, triangle, and rectangle? Can your child name and identify a variety of colors?
• Moves safely and purposefully from one place to another: Does your child avoid people, furniture and objects while moving? Play safely on a playground?

• Turn five years of age on or before September 1.
• Complete an early childhood screening. (Required by the state of Minnesota. Schedule an Early Childhood Screening appointment online.)
• Have up-to-date immunizations or proper documentation of exemption from immunizations.

Anoka-Hennepin Schools kindergarten enrollment

Kindergarten enrollment

Educational Service Center

2727 N. Ferry St., Anoka, MN 55303

Phone: 763-506-1000