This kindergarten check fits on one page, with an answers page after it. Students circle the living things among eight pictures: butterfly, shoe, mushroom, kite, horse, block, cactus and spoon. Next they write water, sunlight or food under a fish, a flower and a bird. The last two items are yes or no questions, does a chair grow and does a cat need food. It suits the end of a living and nonliving unit.
“Identify living things among everyday objects.”
The first item mixes four living things with a shoe, a kite, a block and a spoon.
“Name something living things need, such as water, sunlight or food.”
The middle section asks for one need under each of three living things.
“Decide whether something grows or needs food.”
The last two questions ask about a chair and a cat.
Eight pictures in two rows. Students circle the ones that are living.
A word bank of water, sunlight and food, and three pictures, fish, flower and bird, each with two lines to write on.
Two questions, does a chair grow and does a cat need food, each with a Yes box and a No box.
Butterfly, mushroom, horse and cactus are the living things. The key gives one word for each picture in the middle section, then No and Yes.
End of unit
Hand it out at the end of the unit with a pencil and nothing else. The eight pictures include a mushroom and a cactus, which students often get wrong.
Accept more than one answer
A fish, a flower and a bird each need more than one thing from the word bank, but the key lists one. Mark any true need for that picture as correct.
Read the questions aloud
Read the two yes or no questions to students who find them hard, then let them check a box on their own.
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