Express a variety of emotions (contentment, distress, happiness, sadness, surprise, dislike, anger and fear) through facial expressions, gestures, movement and sounds.

Depth 3

Begin to understand self as a separate person from others.

Depth 3

Comfort self in simple ways and communicate needs for help through vocalizations and gestures.

Depth 3

Express and act on impulses.

Depth 3

Act in ways to make things happen.

Depth 3

Initiate interactions and seek close proximity to familiar adults who provide consistent nurturing.

Depth 3

Initiate and engage in reciprocal (mutual give and take) interactions with familiar adults.

Depth 3

Show interest in other children

Depth 3

Repeat actions that elicit social responses from others.

Depth 3

React to emotional expressions of others

Depth 3

Show interest in people and objects.

Depth 3

Act on the environment to meet needs or interests.

Depth 3

Respond to people and objects in their immediate environment based on past experience.

Depth 3

Demonstrate awareness of happenings in surroundings.

Depth 3

Attempt to reproduce interesting and pleasurable effects and events.

Depth 3

Make discoveries about self, others, and the environment.

Depth 3

Demonstrate preferences, pleasure or displeasure when interacting with various media.

Depth 3

Demonstrate strength and control of head, arms, legs and trunk using purposeful movements.

Depth 3

Transfer a toy from one hand to another by reaching, grasping and releasing.

Depth 3

Use mouth and tongue to explore objects.

Depth 3

Open mouth to wait for food to enter and use upper lip to clean food off spoon during spoon feeding.

Depth 3

Use senses and movement to explore immediate surroundings.

Depth 3

Show awareness of own body.

Depth 3

Interact with adults in physical activities.

Depth 3

Express when hungry or full.

Depth 3

Demonstrate emerging participation in dressing

Depth 3

Exhibit differentiated responses to familiar and unfamiliar people, events, objects and their features.

Depth 3

Mirror simple actions and facial expressions of others previously experienced.

Depth 3

Anticipate next steps in simple familiar routines and games.

Depth 3

Explore real objects, people and actions.

Depth 3

Actively use the body to find out about the world.

Depth 3

Explore objects and attend to events in the environment.

Depth 3

Explore objects and attend to events in the environment.

Depth 3

Notice differences between familiar and unfamiliar people, objects and places.

Depth 3

Imitate repeated movements.

Depth 3

Explore properties of objects.

Depth 3

Explore the properties of objects.

Depth 3

Show awareness of self and awareness of other people.

Depth 3

Examine objects with lips and tongue.

Depth 3

Observe, hold, touch and manipulate objects.

Depth 3

Use simple actions to make things happen.

Depth 3

Attend and respond to language and sounds.

Depth 3

Experiment intentionally with sound inflection and gestures in different ways to express wants, needs or feelings.

Depth 3

Attempt to respond to basic forms of social communication with the appropriate facial expression, vocalization and/or gesture.

Depth 3

Show interest in books, pictures, songs and rhymes.

Depth 3

Attend and respond when familiar books are read aloud.

Depth 3

Vocalize sounds.

Depth 3

Show ability to transfer and manipulate an object with hands

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Source document: Ohio's Early Learning and Development Standards
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