Kindergarden Readiness Eval?

I did these tests for my school system for years. They don't tell you what is on the test because they don't want you prepping your child before hand. Basically they look at motor skills like skipping, jumping, throwing, catching, building with blocks. Basic knowledge such as name, address, colors, counting, etc. And Language Skills like rhyming, pronunciation of letters,

My "scientific" conclusion is this. Kids who are raised by single parents and have spent their lives in day care do very poorly. Kids who have been exclusively home with mom do OK. Kids who have been mostly home with mom but have some classroom experience like one year of preschool or sunday school and VBS, and have some experience with others such as spending time with Grandparents or other family members do the best.

One other thing they don't tell you. Your child can not score 100% only 99+%. In the 14 years that I did the test, I saw 3 kids with 99+% and I only had to turn down 5 kids.

Good luck and don't worry, this isn't the SAT

Ours asked my son to speak his ABCs, identify random letters and numbers, cut on a line, draw a picture of himself, write his name, speak his full name, give his address, identify colors and shapes. These are all things that I've been told by other parents that they will work on throughout this year, so I'm pretty confident that much of it was to identify the kids that weren't quite socially or emotionally ready and to otherwise help divide the classes based on the skill levels of the entering students. (There is quite a spectrum at this age from kids who are still working on social skills to those who are reading and writing.)

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A thorough kindergarten evaluation is and should be mostly developmental. They check small and large motor skills- skipping, using scissors and pencils- memory, following one and two step directions.

However, I have noticed that these evaluations are becoming more and more academic, pushing down the curriculum. Consequently, they ask address, phone, birthday, and if they can write their name and all this info. They will probably ask colors, letter recognition and one to one correrspondence in counting objects, patterning, and grouping objects. They may assess vocabulary by saying a word and the child identifies it among a group of four on a flip chart, or a bit harder, has to associate the word with a picture, such as the word hurt to a picture of a scraped knee.

Questions include writing their name, drawing basic shapes, drawing a picture of themselves, writing letters both capital and lower case and other "simple" things. They have to cut out a shape (circle, square or triangle I believe) and the teacher looks at how they hold scissors and the penscils. They also pay attention to how the child adjust from being with a parent to going into a room with a teacher to answer these questions.
In our district they did a hearing screen and vision screen with the kindergarten screening.
It is merely to get a baseline so the teachers know where they are starting from and how to get each child to where they need to be by the end of the year.
I stressed so badly over it, which my son picked up on and in the end there was no reason to stress at all! (BUT I know that's easier said than done!)

I am a kindergarten teacher and we assess things like letter identification, rhyming skills, basic concepts (asking questions like "what season is the coldest" and "tell me the name of a day of the week."). We also assess number, color and shape identification and counting. We ask our kiddos to write their name to assess fine motor skills and pencil grip. It sounds like a lot but goes very quickly --15 to 20 minutes. Good luck!

I don't know what all schools ask but do know one of the things they do is to see how aware your child is of their self. They ask them to draw a picture and then rate the picture on how detaiuled they draw it. Like eyebrows, eye lashes, 5 fingers, buttons on clothes, nose, 2 eyes, if shrort hair do they draw ears. That sort of thing. But then I did know a little girl who was in kindergaten and could not draw herself and to my knoledge they never held her back.
Good luck. I would maybe try to call the school and ask what they look for.
I just read some of the reasons and don't know how I got into Kindergaten. I honestly remember I knew nothing at all. My mom never taught me any of that stuff. She has no education herself and wouldn't know the first thing to do. My 3 year old grand son knows all that some of the ladies say they look for at age 3. I taught him. He was reading to his self and to me before mama got a wild hair and took him away from my care.

The school I was at before tested the kids on letters ( can't remember if it was upper and lower case but i think so), writing their name, and i think numbers 1-10. colors, shapes. Just basic stuff. They use it in many ways but one way is to see where they are starting and see how far they come.