Listens for different purposes (receptive language)

– Listens while others speak
– Follows directions
– Listens to and engages in conversations with others

Uses language to communicate in a variety of ways (expressive language)

– Communicates in home language
– Uses language to pretend or create
– Communicates conversationally with peers and adults
– Asks/answers questions
– Acquires new vocabulary

Discriminates sounds in speech (phonological awareness)

– Distinguishes sounds in the environment
– Repeats rhymes, simple songs, poems, and finger plays
– Participates in word games
– Discriminates some sounds in words
– Responds to music in a variety of ways

Uses written language to communicate

– Explores writing, using different forms
– Uses drawing and writing to communicate

Demonstrates knowledge of books and print

– Develops knowledge about books
– Develops knowledge about letter sounds and names
– Develops a sense of story

Develops number sense and numerical operations

– Develops counting concepts and skills
– Develops relationships between number and quantity
– Develops numerical representation
– Develops informal addition and subtraction concepts and skills

Develops understanding of geometry and spatial sense

– Explores shapes and their uses in the environment
Investigates position and location
– Solves spatial problems in everyday situations

Develops understanding of relationships and patterns in the environment

– Matches, sorts, and regroups by 1 or more attributes
– Orders/arranges in a sequence
– Explores patterns

Explores measurement

– Makes comparisons of objects, quantities, and relationships
– Uses measurement in meaningful ways

Explores data

– Collects, organizes and interprets data
– Represents data in a variety of ways

Increasingly, develops and refines gross motor locomotor skills

– Hops
– Runs with ease/direction

Increasingly, develops and refines gross motor balance and rotation skills

– Jumps
– Balances walking forward on a balance beam/line

Increasingly, develops and refines gross motor manipulative skills

– Kicks a ball
– Aims/throws objects at target
– Catches objects

Increasingly, develops and refines fine motor skills

– Increases strength and dexterity for upper extremities
– Uses small manipulatives with increasing strength and dexterity
– Develops scissor skills
– Develops pencil grasp
– Draws/writes with increasing control

Develops self awareness

– Demonstrates personal preferences
– Demonstrates knowledge of personal information
– Demonstrates emotional well-being
– Develops appropriate trust in adults

Develops self regulation

– Follows transitions and daily routines
– Follows simple rules
– Expresses feelings through appropriate gestures, actions, and language
– Demonstrates personal responsibility for self and possessions
– Follows self-selected plans for play
– Demonstrates respect for classroom property

Builds relationships with peers

– Recognizes feelings of others and responds appropriately
– Engages in interactive play
– Forms friendships
– Resolves conflict

Cooperates and collaborates as a member of a learning community

– Recognizes and accepts individual differences
– Participates as a member of a group/activity
– Uses social conventions
– Negotiates with others to change rules and suggests new rules