Language

Your child knows the vocabulary he needs for school

Your child has an age-appropriate vocabulary

Your child speaks in complete sentences

Your child understands questions, instructions, prompts and terms

Your child can ask simple questions, express needs, and respond accordingly

Your child can express him-/herself

Your child can recount an experience or story

Your child passes the internal kindergarten language test (MSS)

Literacy

Your child can hold a book and turn the pages

Your child can retell stories or repeat them in its own words

Your child can recognize and write their own name

Your child can recognize rhyming words and initial sounds

Your child can clap syllables

Fine motor skills

Your child can hold a pen (3-point grip)

Your child can stay within the contours and cut out shapes along the line

Your child can fold paper

Your child has hand-eye coordination

Your child has age-appropriate physical coordination

Effective learning

Your child arrives at school on time

Your child can sit at a desk for a prolonged period

Your child organizes his-/herself in an age-appropriate and independent manner

Your child brings complete working materials and keeps them in order: sharpened pencils and complete pencil case with glue and scissors

Your child has the ability to concentrate and tolerate frustration (can accept and learn from mistakes)

Retention: Can listen to teachers and follows (class) rules

Your child shows patience and can wait

Logical thinking

Your child can continue sequences

Your child has spatial orientation (within the classroom and the school)

Your child can tell right from left

Your child has an understanding of quantity (he/she can recognize numbers on the dice and count to 10)

Your child recognizes the relationships between numbers

Your child can put together a simple puzzle

Your child knows basic geometric shapes

Your child recognizes colors and can name them

Your child can complete multi-step tasks independently

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In progress

Me and the others

Your child is respectful, outgoing and tries to resolve conflicts verbally

Your child understands rules and abides by them

Your child can appreciate others

Your child can empathize with others and their feelings

Recommendations

Independently tie shoes and carry (or roll) the school bag

Know their first and last name and their birthday

Have a healthy snack and enough water with them every day

Purchase a school bag for A4 books and notebooks

Pack the school bag together the day before

Label all work materials in advance

Have knowledge of the German culture and accept and tolerate German customs

Changes

There are new acquaintances, friends and reference persons

There are many new rooms to be used in the Primary School (classrooms, subject rooms, toilets ...)

Special emphasis is placed on the independence of the students

The daily routine differs from that of the kindergarten

Lunch is taken in the cafeteria with the other students of the school

Before and after physical education, the students change in the changing rooms