Your child will demonstrate the following EBIPS

Emotional

• enjoys coming to kindergarten
• looking forward to going to first grade
• enjoys stories and retelling them
• enjoys reciting rhymes and singing songs
• confidently walk five steps backwards
• able to verbalize feelings

Behavioral

• can sit still and quiet
• able to listen
• imitates gestures and movements in games
• helps clean up after an activity
• dresses self including zip zippers and button buttons
• independently eat, drink, brush teeth, wash, go the toilet, set and clear table
• talks about recent experiences
• appears well rested
• sustains concentration for the same number of minutes as years old
• attending kindergarten regularly

Intellectual

• identifies a circle, square and triangle
• listens to stories
• articulates clearly
• knows some rhymes and songs from memory
• knows what comes next in the rhythm of the day
• copies a clapped rhythm
• puts on own shoes and ties own shoe laces
• can distinguish between reality and fantasy

Physical

• limbs have lengthened
• knuckles more prominent
• facial features more distinct
• waist is visible
• incisors are loose or lost
• hand dominance is established
• can stretch arm over the top of own head and touch opposite ear

Social

• joins in offered activities
• shares food and toys
• shares teacher’s or parent’s attention
• follows a project through to completion
• participates in group play
• uses objects in room for inspiration in play

Just For Fun – Have Your Child:

• walk on a straight line
• stand on one leg for the count of ten
• draw a house and face with symmetry
• draw a tree and a person
• throw and catch a large ball
• hop on one leg
• skip, climb, lift and move objects
• use a pencil, paint brush and scissors
• play finger games