Children Learning Assessment

(Reference: http://www.funful.hk/index.php/regular-assessment/)

What children will learn at different ages …

2 to 3 years
English		· Can recite from A to Z · Basic Simple English conversation · Understand simple English instructions from teachers · Recognition of English alphabet
Numbers		· Can Count from 1 to 20 · Recognition of colours and shapes · Understand the concepts of “one” and “two”
Reading & Speech		· Know how to answer one’s name and age when asked · Know simple instructions · Recognition of common objects and pictures · Understand nouns and adjectives · To be an inquirer
Small Muscles		· Draw vertical and horizontal lines with pencil · Using blocks to build simple models · Can turn pages of a book one by one
Social		· Learn to wait for one’s turn and queue up for games · Sharing with others · Imitating the behaviour of adults and peers · Like to play with playmates

3 to 4 years
English		· Understand English teacher’s instructions · Can communicate in English with teachers · Recognition of small and capital letters from A to Z · Understand simple English story
Numbers		· Can count from 1 to 30 · Know how to classify and matching · Recognition of colours and shapes · Count 3 to 4 objects correctly · Understand the concept of quantity, e.g. small, big; heavy,Tall, short; long, short
Reading & Speech		· Love to listen to simple stories · Can repeat the content of the story · Can use more than 100 phrases · Can listen to more than 2 instructions from adults · Can use pronouns “you”, “I”, “she” correctly · Can recite a nursery rhyme or a poem of the Tang Dynasty
Writing		· can hold a pencil like an adult · can draw circular and rectangular patterns · learn to write from 1 to 10 · Learn to write simple words like “up”, “down”, “mouth”, “cow”, and “moon” · Can draw meaningful shapes like a man, fruit and the sun
Social Skills		· Love to play imaginative games and character mining · can co-operate with other children in games · can control one’s behaviour and observe rules · can observe other people’s feeling-distinguish happy, angry, sad and joy

4 to 5 years
English		· understand and answer teacher’s questions · can read English story books independently · can pronounce English correctly · can communicate fluently with teachers
Numbers		· Recognition of numbers from 1 to 100 · even and odd numbers from 1 to 50 · know how to count more than 10 objects · addition and subtraction within 10
Reading and Speech		· speak fluently, can use adult’s phrases and grammar · when speaking, can respond to the related topics · can repeat part of the story heard · can describe a recent event · can speak and understand Putonghua
Writing		· Can write English vocabulary and simple sentences · Can write Chinese phrases · Can draw accurate and detailed images
Social skills		· can control self emotion and observe community regulations · express one’s own need and share toys with others. Return borrowed objects · participate in organized games · can tell the names of his friends and choose favourite play-mates

5 to 6 years
English		· Can repeat the content of a story in English · Know how to use more than 100 English phrases · Can spell simple English phrases
Numbers		· Odd and even numbers from 1 to 100 · Recognition of time · the year, months and days of the week · know the differences between 1/2, 1/3, 1/4
Reading & Speech		· Can continue a story · Love to listen to jokes and riddles · Can tell one’s address and a few telephone numbers · Can speak simple sentences in Putonghua
Writing		· Can write sentences in English and Chinese · Can compose English and Chinese sentences · Recite and write from 1 to 100
Social skills		· Love to imitate, e.g acting as policemen, parents or doctors · Knowing the differences between reality and imagination