Kindergarten

Harry Balfour School students learn about bus safety.
 

Free transportation is provided to PWPSD students who qualify due to distance from their boundary school. Before the first day of school, bus drivers call parents to provide the bus route number, along with pick-up and drop-off times. After you receive your child’s bus route number, remember to download the Bus Status app for up-to-date bus information.

Here’s what most five-year-olds can do:

Talking:

• Say most speech sounds correctly and are easy to understand.
• Speak in sentences that are five-to-six words in length.
• Ask questions using who, what, where, and why.
• Use the present, future, and past tenses (She walks to the park. She will walk to the park. She walked to the park.).
• Retell a story by naming the characters and talking about what happened.
• Use different types of words, such as action (kick) and describing words (yellow, cold).

Listening/Understanding:

• Follow three directions at a time.
• Understand many concepts, such as colours, location words, and numbers.
• Put things into basic groups, such as fruits, animals, and toys.
• Understand most adult conversation, including sayings like, 'Time to hit the sack'.
• Understand and answer most questions appropriately.
• Like to listen to rhymes and make up their own rhymes.

Social Skills:

• Makes eye contact with other children and adults.
• Takes turns and wait for their turn during activities.
• Sits quietly and listens to the teacher during circle time.
• Says hi or hello and goodbye appropriately.

Some five-year-olds may still have trouble:

• Saying the sounds sh, ch, j, s, z, v, r, and th. The s and z sounds may be lisps.
• Asking questions that start with when.
• Understanding the words above and below.

If you have concerns about your child’s development, contact Erin MacLellan, District Principal of Inclusive Education, (780) 532-8133.