Introduction
Overview
Standards-based knowledge and skills will remain the central pillars of every student’s learning, creating a deep foundation that enables further inquiry and exploration in a variety of fields and areas of interest. The SFUSD Report Cards are intended to communicate progress towards mastery of these skills and standards. SFUSD Transitional Kindergarten standards build toward the Kindergarten standards. SFUSD uses the California Preschool Learning Foundations and the research-based based measures in the Desired Results Developmental Profile as references for end-of-year Kindergarten readiness expectations.
All SFUSD students in grades TK-5 receive marks that show progress toward end-of-year expectations. Mastery of end-of-year expectations is indicated with a score of 3 or higher. Instead of letter grades, students receive marks that describe proficiency levels. All students receive proficiency level indicators for the standards at their grade level.
Conferencing with your Child’s Teacher
Parent/Guardian/Teacher Conferences are an important opportunity to discuss your child’s progress. Here are some tips and suggestions.
Before the conference…
- Make sure you have a scheduled conference time. If you need to cancel the scheduled time, contact the teacher to schedule a different time.
- Review your child’s work.
- Talk with your child about his or her progress in school.
- Think about your child’s strengths and challenges beforehand.
- Make a list of questions about your child’s development and ways you and the teacher can help your child with some of his or her challenges. Examples: Is my child at the level where he/she should be at this point of the school year? In what areas is my child excelling? How is their attendance? What can I do to help my child with upcoming work?
- Think about ways you would like to be involved in your child’s learning, so you can discuss them with the teacher.
At the conference…
- Be prepared for a two-way conversation to learn about your child’s social and emotional and academic progress at school. This is also an opportunity for the teacher to learn about what your child is like at home. When you tell the teacher about your child’s skills, interests, needs and dreams, the teacher can help your child more.
- Ask to see data about your child’s attendance and progress at school.
- Make a goal and a plan with your child's teacher to ensure your child's success.
- Write down the things you and the teacher will do to support your child.
- Schedule another time to talk if you need to continue the conversation past the allotted amount of time.
- Ask your child's teacher how best to communicate with them.
After the conference…
- Talk with your child about what you learned.
- Follow up with the teacher about your child’s development and the plan that was created during the conference.
Social-Emotional Development
How Are Social-Emotional Skills Developed?
Social-emotional development is facilitated by strong, supportive and sustained relationships with adults and peers. Each child has their own unique strengths and develops social emotional skills over time with support from their family, peers, teacher, and community.
Standards | What Can Families Do To Support Children? |
Explores environment to learn about people, things, and events |
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Develops strategies in regulating feelings |
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Persists in mastering new and challenging activities |
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Able to share space and materials with others |
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Describes characteristics of self |
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Communicates ideas about why one has a feeling |
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Engages in cooperative play with others |
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Additional Resources for Families
Toolkits for parents for each age level can be found in English and Spanish at: parenttoolkit.com
Social-Emotional Learning information can be found at: casel.org/social-and-emotional-learning and https://allaboutyoungchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/english-social-emotional-48-60.pdf
Language and Literacy Development
Children will begin to develop many aspects of early literacy (reading, writing, speaking and listening) in Transitional Kindergarten. Students will develop language and literacy through listening, talking, exploring books and print, and drawing.
Standards | What Can Families Do To Support Children? |
Shows understanding of a variety of phrases and sentences |
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Carries out familiar multi-step tasks |
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Produces sentences with nouns and verbs |
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Participates in read alouds, songs, and rhyming games |
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Understands details of texts read aloud |
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Tracks print left to right and page to page in a book |
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Demonstrates awareness of letters, words, and syllables |
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Identifies 10 or more letters |
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Writes first name |
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Additional Resources for Families
California Prekindergarten Curriculum Frameworks: cde.ca.gov/ci/rl/cf/documents/elaeldfwchapter3.pdf
California Common Core State Standards: cde.ca.gov/re/cc
Information for Families on Children’s Language and Literacy Development: https://allaboutyoungchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/english-language-literacy-48-60.pdf
English Language Development
This section of the report card is only completed for children who are English Language Learners (ELs). TK teachers recognize the value of diversity and show respect for each child’s home culture and language by incorporating familiar words, objects and images into program and curricular design. At the same time, they continually encourage the development of English language and literacy skills.
How are English Language skills developed?
Children develop the skills for reading and writing through both talking and listening. Speaking in your first language will help your child with your home language and other languages as well. Children should also have opportunities to interact with English-speaking children, this could take place at the public library or parks and recreation centers.
Standards | What Can Families Do To Support Children? |
Shows understanding of multiple words, phrases and concepts in English |
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Communicates in English using sentences |
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Uses a variety of words and phrases in English |
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Identifies 10 or more letters in English |
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Additional Resources for Families
California Common Core State Standards: cde.ca.gov/re/cc
Math and Science
Math standards taught in Transitional Kindergarten are carefully aligned with Kindergarten and Pre-K math standards. Children learn math throughout the day in small groups, individually and together as a whole class. Children practice math together socially, using real concrete objects to count and compare. Teachers support math knowledge by modeling and asking questions, by offering many opportunities to talk about math ideas, and by asking children to show their thinking in a variety of ways.
Standards | What Can Families Do To Support Children? |
Sorts objects into two or more groups by size and by color |
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Counts objects 1-10 |
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Uses counting to add or subtract one or two objects |
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Identifies differences in size, length, weight of two or more objects |
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Creates repeating patterns with 2 or more elements |
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Identifies several shapes
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Additional Resources for Families
California Mathematics Resources for Parents and Guardians: cde.ca.gov/re/cc/mathinfoparents.asp
California Common Core State Standards: cde.ca.gov/re/cc
Information for Families on Children’s Development of Number Sense: https://allaboutyoungchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/english-number-sense-48-60.pdf
Physical Development and Health
Health Education is part of the required instructional program at all grade levels in SFUSD schools. The goals of health education are to supplement and reinforce discussions about health in the home and community and to teach knowledge and skills necessary for children to make health-promoting decisions. Students in transitional kindergarten will be evaluated on Personal and Community Health and Growth and Development.
Health Standards | What Can Families Do to Support Children? |
Changes movement in relation to people or objects |
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Writes with a pencil or crayon using pincer hand position |
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Uses two or more sequential movements to move objects |
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Moves objects using both hands doing different movements |
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Additional Resources for Families
Eat Fresh | Healthy, tasty recipes on a budget | |
Positive Parenting Tips | Links on child development, safety, and health at each stage of life | |
Physical Development | Information for Families on Children’s Physical Development | https://allaboutyoungchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/english-physical-development-48-60.pdf |
This page was last updated on September 10, 2024