How children become involved in learning and acquire knowledge.

• Child finds various ways to problem solve

• Can take objects apart and reassemble

• Maintains focus on task

• Asks for assistance

Children’s physical health and ability to engage in daily activities

Uses senses to assist and guide learning

• Identifies

• Compares and Contrasts

• Uses Descriptive Words

Health and Well Being

• Personal care and hygiene

• Toileting, brushing teeth, washing hands

• Self Dress, clean up

• Recognizes when sick

• Stay healthy through nutrition, sleep, water, rest, exercise

Safety Rules

• Hold an adult’s hand at a busy street

• Communicates unsafe behavior

• Understands certain practices can be unsafe

Emotional competence and ability to form positive relationships that give meaning to children’s experiences in the home, school and larger community.

• Recognizes self as unique

• Identifies as part of a family

• Compares and contrasts self to others

• Understands range of feelings

• Pride in work and sense of accomplishment

• Self Regulation

  • Expresses feelings

  • Modifies behavior to situation

• Interacts with adults

• Understands and able to transition

• Positive Relationship with Peers

  • Approaches already engaged children

  • Plays with others and sustains interaction

  • Shares

  • Develops close relationship

  • Offers help or shows concern

• Trades, takes turns, compromises

• Accountability

  • Follows rules and routines

  • Breaking rules has consequences

  • Different rules for different situations

• Adaptability

  • Separates

  • Transitions

  • Adapts to strategies to cope with change

  • Ex., deep breathing

How children understand, create and communicate meaning.

Participates in small and large groups

• Story telling

• Singing

• Finger plays

Asks Questions

• Show and Tell

Listens attentively

• Directions, information, stories

Initiates Conversation

Maintains eye contact

Background Knowledge

• Uses vocabulary correctly

• Makes comparisons

Viewing

• Understanding social cues

• Identifies emotions by facial expressions

Engages in pretend play

Literacy

• Names letters

• Names numbers

• Difference between letters and numbers

• Letter/sound correspondence

• Group sound-a-likes

• Letters form words

• First sound of words

• Recognize rhyme

• Recognize own name

• Recognize common signs and labels

• Read left to right

Writing

• Use combination of drawing , dictating or writing

• Express opinions:

• Ex: I like.. because..

• Informative/explains what they are drawing for informational text

• Provide a reaction

Production and Distribution

• Add details to illustration

• Use digital tools to produce something with peers

Research

• With guidance, support and shared research, explore author’s books and express opinions about them.

Response to Literature

• Create poem, dramatization, art work or personal response to an author or themed study

Speaking and Listening

• Print upper and lower case letters

• Form nouns with plural (s/es)

• Understand question words

• To/from, in/out, on/off, by/with, above/below, before/after, first/then/next/last

• Capitalize

• Write simple words

• Sorting/categorizing common things

• Opposites

• Shades of words by acting out

• Walk, march, strut, prance

What children need to know and understand about their world and how they apply what they know.

Counting

• Number names

• Count sequence

• Count number of objects

  • People on a line

• Compare numbers

  • Bigger, smaller

Operations

• Addition is adding to getting larger

• Subtraction is removing; getting smaller

• Simple patterns

Measurement and Data

• Describe and compare measurable attributes

• Sort and count objects in a category

Geometry

• Identify and describe shapes

• Analyze, compare and sort objects

• Count to 20

• Represent a number of objects (0-5) with zero being no object

• Written numbers (0-5)

• Count/ one-to-one correspondence to 10

  • Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted

  • Of scattered objects

  • Of objects in a row

• Identify if number of objects in multiple groups are more, less, greater, fewer and/or equal to each other

• Describe and compare measurable attributes

  • Such as length and weight: big/small, long/short, full/empty, light, heavy

Identify and describe shapes

• Squares, circles, triangles, rectangles

• Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes and describe relative position:

  • top/bottom, up/down, in front of/behind, over/under, next to

• Name shapes regardless of size

• Analyze, compare and sort two and three dimensional shapes.

• Create shapes from components (sticks, clay etc)