Kindy evaluation Q

beachbum1980 · March 2012

Just signed my dc up for his kindergarten evaluation. Do you have an idea what your district tests? There's even a physical part in my district, so maybe they will do jumping jacks, or hop on one foot? lol. I am not sure, just curious what other districts do.

Can't believe how quickly this snuck up on us.

Angela814 · March 2012

We didn't have one. DD went to the local public 4K, and there was no evaluation prior to entering either. I'm curious to find out what's expected.

shouldbworkin · March 2012

Ours does an en masse eval during KG roundup. The kids answer a few questions re: counting and letters, color in a picture and the teachers observe them as they take them to the classrooms and on a bus ride. they come back in Aug for a more formal assessment of letters/numbers/beginning sight words to see where they fall in the class.

jlw2505 · March 2012

In my area kids can get the eval done anytime from age 3 until they start school. They do vision and hearing, have the kids walk a straight line (looking at things like balance) and then they do a done of more educational stuff - repeating words, basic patterns, reading comprehension, letters, numbers knowledge type of stuff.

JenniC1135 · March 2012

Mine didn't test a thing before the kids showed up for school the first day. I wish they would've had some sort of eval.

AnnapolisLari · March 2012

I think ours is just vision, hearing and scoliosis.

beachbum1980 · March 2012

interesting to see all the responses. ours is an hour long. or at least that is how they scheduled them, in 1 hour increments. and they meet with 3 different teachers. my neighbors who already went through this don't really seem to know all that much bc the parents aren't allowed in there. but from what their kids told them, it's their name, address, money recognition, like penny, nickel, dime, quarter and counting. as well as some sort of physical part. that's all i found out so far.

i really think it must be more of an assessment to catch the kids who are really behind so they can help them.

patty78 · March 2012

My DDs district went to her preschool and did it. They tested fine motor skills, gorss motor skills, counting, abcs, speech. I just signed her up yesterday for kindergarten:(

Littlejen22 · March 2012

JenniC1135:
Mine didn't test a thing before the kids showed up for school the first day. I wish they would've had some sort of eval.

This.

dirtbikemom · March 2012

Ours tested to see what letters, numbers, and colors they knew. Had them follow certain steps to see how they followed directions and try to read from a sheet of paper to test their reading skills. The whole thing lasted about 15-20 mins.

StarryNight39 · March 2012

Ava had hers the week before school started. I am not sure exactly what she did, but she said they just asked her questions about letters, colors, words, etc. They took the kids one at a time while the parents filled out all the back to school paperwork.

They did use this as a tool to split the children. They only have two K classes so they were able to make them pretty even.

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