GOLD® Objectives and Dimensions (WaKIDS) 

Hello Kindergarten Families!

We are so excited to meet you and welcome your new Lafayette Leopard to kindergarten.  We know this is an exciting milestone and a big deal in you and your child’s life, and with that can come a variety of emotions.  We want to take an opportunity to meet with you and say hi to our wonderful new students before the first day of school.  (Kindergarten starts on Monday, September 9^th, 2024.)  This can help put your child at ease, and we can get to know you better and answer any questions you may have. 

Once you find out who your child’s teacher is, you can sign up for a Family Connection Conference with them at the appropriate link below.  We look forward to welcoming you soon!

Sincerely,

The K Team (Sarah, Angel, Monica, Jessica)

Family Connection Meeting Sign Ups:

Ms. Angel Weaver

Mrs. Monica Smith

Miss Jessica Peterson

Ms. Sarah Benson

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Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (WaKIDS) is a process of connecting families, elementary schools and early education programs so that new kindergartners can be ready to start school.

All Washington public elementary schools participate in WaKIDS, which includes 3 elements:

• Family connection
• Whole-child assessment
• Early learning collaboration

Social–Emotional

1. Regulates own emotions and behaviors
   • Manages feelings
   • Follows limits and expectations
   • Takes care of own needs appropriately

2. Establishes and sustains positive relationships
   • Interacts with peers

3. Participates cooperatively and constructively ingroup situations
   • Balances needs and rights of self and others
   • Solves social problems

Physical

4. Demonstrates traveling skills
5. Demonstrates balancing skills
6. Demonstrates fine-motor strength and coordination
   • Uses fingers and hands
   • Uses writing and drawing tools

Language

8. Listens to and understands increasingly complex language
   • Comprehends language
   • Follows directions

9. Uses language to express thoughts and needs
   • Speaks clearly

10. Uses appropriate conversational and other communication skills
    • Engages in conversations

Cognitive

11. Demonstrates positive approaches to learning
    • Attends and engages
    • Persists
    • Solves problems

12. Remembers and connects experiences
    • Recognizes and recalls

13. Uses classification skills
14. Uses symbols and images to represent something not present
    • Thinks symbolically
    • Literacy

15. Demonstrates phonological awareness
    • Notices and discriminates rhyme
    • Notices and discriminates smaller and smaller units of sound

16. Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet
    • Identifies and names letters
    • Uses letter–sound knowledge

17. Demonstrates knowledge of print and its uses
    • Uses print concepts

18. Comprehends and responds to books and other texts
    • Uses emergent reading skills

19. Demonstrates emergent writing skills
    • Writes name
    • Mathematics

20. Uses number concepts and operations
    • Counts
    • Quantifies
    • Connects numerals with their quantities

21. Explores and describes spatial relationships and shapes
    • Understands shapes