What Are The Standards For Kindergarten (florida)?
I am home educating my child and am not sure what are the standards in Florida . He can do easy addition and subtraction (up to 20) , count to 100 , recognize coins , tells time to 1h and 1/2 h , measures in inches ,place values, families numbers. Reads well short&long vowels words,sh ,kn,-ing, blends. Writes all letters , numbers 1-20 ,spells 3-4 letters words , own name . Knows days of the week/ months , all 7 continents , some countries&capitals, some science , history and one foreign language (I speak another language) .
Anything I am missing? I will homeschool him until he will be 2nd grade and I don’t want him to be behind .
Any website that tells me exactly what are the standards?
Florida’s standards are very vague. There is one set of standards that covers kindergarten through second grade; there are other sets for higher grades, but none of them are specific to a single grade level.
This means that you won’t find something that says specifically what the state expects a kindergartner to learn, but rather you’ll find a vague list of what should be learned by the time he finishes second grade. You can find the list of Sunshine State Standards at http://www.fldoe.org/bii/curriculum/sss/
A list that might be of more value to you is found at http://www.worldbook.com The World Book website has in their parent resources a set of lists for each grade level of “typical course of study”. These lists start with preschool and go through 12th grade and list the sorts of things that students at a particular grade level are typically expected to learn. (Note, Florida usually ranks about 48th when the educational systems of the 50 states are ranked, so the lists are probably advanced for what a typical Florida school would expect its students to learn.)
A few Florida school districts have published their own lists of what they expect students to learn. So, you might google your own school district’s website and see if they have a published list for parents.
As a Florida teacher and homeschool evaluator, your child sounds like he’ll be advanced based on what he’s learned so far….