Health (HLTH)

Safety

Child shows increasing awareness of safety and increasingly demonstrates knowledge of safety skills

Understanding of Health and Wellness

Child shows increasing knowledge of health and the ability to respond effectively to internal cues from their body to support wellness

Personal Care Routines: Hygiene

Child increasingly responds to and initiates personal care routines that support hygiene

Personal Care Routines: Feeding

Child responds to feeding and feeds self with increasing proficiency

Personal Care Routines: Self-Dressing

Child develops and refines ability to participate in and take responsibility for dressing self

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Reacts to unpleasant events (e.g.,sounds, touch)

Responds to situations that feel unsafe

Seeks a familiar adult in situations that feel unsafe

Follows adults' guidance about basic safety practices

Follows basic safety practices in familiar situations with adult supervision

Follows basic safety practices, on own, in familiar situations, with occasional adult reminders

Anticipates the need to follow basic safety practices in various situations

Demonstrates understanding of the primary features of some safety practices

Demonstrates understanding of potentially safe and unsafe situations

Demonstrates safe behaviors

Communicates detailed strategies for staying safe

Indicates awareness of some internal cues from the body (e.g., hunger, fatigue)

Communicates about some internal cues from the body

Demonstrates some understanding of their own feelings of wellness

Takes steps to address cues from the body, including seeking adult support, some ofthe time

Demonstrates curiosity about behaviors related to health and wellness

Communicates understanding about causes of health and wellness, including knowledge of healthful foods

Initiates wellness activities based on internal cues from the body or knowledge of classroom routines

Responds in basic ways during personal care routines that involve hygiene

Responds in ways that demonstrate awareness of a hygiene routine

Anticipates one or two steps of a hygiene routine

Participates in own hygiene routines, with an adult

Carries out some steps of own hygiene routines, with specificadult guidance or demonstration

Carries out most steps of familiar hygiene routines, with occasional reminders of when or how to do them

Initiates and carries out most steps of familiar hygiene routines on own

Initiates and completes familiar hygiene routines on own

Responds in basic ways during feeding

Engages in the process of being fed

Feeds self some food items using fingers or hands

Explores the use of tools when feeding self, sometimes with adult support

Feeds self different types of foods, some of which may involve the use of tools

Serves self or others by opening packages orscooping or pouring from containers

Prepares simple foods to serve to self or others

Responds in basic ways during dressing

Responds in ways that demonstrate awareness ofa dressing routine

Anticipates one or two steps of a dressing routine

Participates with adult in dressing self

Puts on clothing that is simple to manipulate, sometimes with adult assistance

Dresses self, but still needs assistance with parts of clothing that are particularly challenging (e.g., buttons, fasteners, zippers)

Dresses self, including clothing with parts that are particularly challenging (e.g., buttons, fasteners, zippers)