Graduation Day

Vera is ready for preschool!  Patty has worked so, so hard with these cute little preschoolers over the last several years.

They had to take a series of "tests" to see how much they know.  When they mastered a skill, they earned a reward for their poster.  Vera came home with this awesome poster showing quite of list of skills Patty has helped her master.  They also received a cool trophy and a special medal for all of their hard work.  Like I say over and over again...Patty just rocks!

Here's all of the preschool/kindergarten skills that Vera's mastered:  (We got a cool checklist from Patty.  I'm documenting this here because there's no guarantee that I won't lose the checklist.)

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*Identify upper and lowercase letters
*Sounds from A-Z
*Sound out words
*Alphabet sequence
*Identify numbers 0-30
*Number sequence 0-30
*Count to 50
*Count backwards from 10
*Count from any  number to 20
*Count by 10s to 100
*Count by 5s to 100
*One-on-one correspondence
*Number addition to sums of 10
*Greater and fewer / more and less
*Basic 2D & 3D shapes
*Colors and color words
*Days of the week and put in proper sequence
*All Kindergarten sight words & a few 1st grade words
*Read basic sight word books
*Recognize beginning and ending sound of words
*Sorting, Patterns, and sequencing
*Positions (front, back, left, right, up, down)
*Rhyming
*Opposites
*Write and recognize first name
*Birthday
*Address & phone number
*Draw stick people with arms and legs

Vera's still working on a few things on  the list:
*Counting backwards from 20
*Matching numbers to number words
*Writing the ABCs

Overall, I cannot believe how much she can do.  Patty puts her heart and soul in preschool activities.  She missed her calling as a teacher, but we sure are glad she's our babysitter instead!  :)