Preschool

Physical Development, Health, and Well Being

Literacy

Mathematics

Aesthetic Creativity

Scientific Conceptual Understandings

Self, Family, and Community

Approaches to Learning

The child uses gross motor control independently, including balance, spatial awareness, and stability.

The child independently uses fine motor skills.

The child demonstrates the understanding and function of both receptive and expressive vocabulary.

The child communicates experiences, ideas, and feelings through speaking or American Sign Language (ASL).

The child engages in activities that promote the acquisition of foundational reading skills.

The child demonstrates that writing is a way of communicating for a variety of purposes.

The child understands numbers, ways of representing numbers, and relationships between quantities and numerals.

The child demonstrates understanding of geometrical and spatial concepts.

The child demonstrates an understanding of non-standard units to measure and make comparisons.

The child demonstrates the ability to investigate, organize, and create representations.

The child demonstrates appreciation for the arts (movement, music, visual, and dramatic).

The child uses a process of inquiry to investigate the physical and natural worlds and to hypothesize and make predictions.

The child acquires scientific knowledge related to earth science.

The child develops self control.

The child demonstrates personal responsibility.

The child works cooperatively with other children and adults.

The child develops relationships of mutual trust and respect with others.

The child takes initiative.

The child exhibits imagination and creativity.

The child displays persistence and pursues challenges.

Demonstrates body coordination and strength in activities such as climbing stairs with alternating feet, marching, running, jumping, hopping, dancing, riding tricycles and scooters.

Demonstrates balance and spatial awareness in many situations (running and stopping, climbing, ball-handling, and/or simple group games.

Is developing manual coordination to use writing and crafting tools and demonstrate self-help skills such as buttoning and zipping.

Demonstrates the ability to attend, understand, and follow increasingly complex directions.

Demonstrates increasing abilities to understand and use language by the number, variety and complexity of words across varied purposes.

Demonstrates the ability to effectively engage in a range of conversational skills in his or her home language (including ASL) for a variety of purposes relating to real experiences and different audiences.

Demonstrates comprehension of a story “read aloud” by asking relevant questions and providing key details in literary texts.

Demonstrates the knowledge to make sense of print.

Hears and discriminates the sounds of language in words to develop phonological awareness.

Demonstrates an understanding of alphabet principle and word recognition skills.

Understands how to apply the early stages of drawing and writing to convey meaning.

Uses numbers and counting as means for solving problems and determining quantity.

Progresses in understanding of number words and numeral recognition skills.

Recognizes, names, describes, compares, and creates familiar shapes.

Demonstrates emerging knowledge of measurement.

Sorts, classifies, and groups materials by one or more attributes.

Communicates ideas and/or feelings through creative activities (for example, making up a song, acting out a story, creating a piece of                 art work or a set of movements).

Uses senses to investigate characteristics and behaviors in the physical and natural worlds and begins to form explanations of                     observations and explorations.

Makes predictions and forms hypothesis.

Investigates, compares, and contrasts seasonal and weather changes in the immediate environment.

Adapts behavior to fit different situations (for example, accepts transitions, follows daily routines, and/or incorporates cultural expectations).

Cares for personal and group possessions.

Plays and interacts with various children, sharing experiences and ideas with others.

Uses and accepts negotiation, compromise, and discussion to resolve conflicts.

Accepts guidance from a variety of appropriate adults and seeks their support when needed.

Develops increasing independence during activities, routines, and play.

Role-plays to express feelings to dramatize stories, to try out social behaviors observed in adults, and reenact real-life roles and experiences.

Focuses and completes a variety of tasks, activities, projects, and experiences.

Develops manual coordination to use writing and crafting tools

Demonstrates self-help fine motor skills such as buttoning and zipping.

Shows an understanding of the basic concepts of print.

Understands that print carries meaning.

Recognizes and generates rhyming sounds in spoken language.

Demonstrates understanding of spoken words, syllables and sounds (phonemes).

Shows an understanding of alphabetic knowledge.

Knows and applies letter-sound correspondence and beginning sound-recognition skills.

Rote counts in sequence.

Names and identifies written numerals.