4 year old

Health and Physical Development

Social and Emotional Development

Language and Communication Development

Approaches to Learning

Cognitive and General Knowledge

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Motor Development

Sensory Organization

Emotional Development

Self-concept

Social Competence

Listening and Understanding

Speaking and Communicating

Early Literacy

Curiosity, Engagement, Persistence

Creativity and Imagination

Diversity of Learning

Exploration, Discovery, and Problem Solving

Mathematical Thinking

Scientific Thinking

PURPOSE AND COORDINATION: Moves with strength, control, balance, coordination, locomotion and endurance.

BALANCE AND STRENGTH: Moves with strength, control, balance, coordination, locomotion and endurance

Exhibits eye-hand coordination, strength, control, and object manipulation.

Uses senses to take in, experience, integrate, and regulate responses to the environment.

Expresses a wide range of emotions

Understands and responds to other’ emotions

Develops positive self-esteem

Demonstrates self-awareness.

Demonstrates attachment, trust and autonomy.

Engages in social interaction and plays with others.

Demonstrates understanding of rules and social expectations.

Engages in social problem solving behavior and learns to resolve conflict.

Derives meaning through listening to communications of others and sounds in the environment.

Listens and responds to communication with others.

Follows directions of increasing complexity.

Uses gestures and movements (non-verbal) to communicate

Uses vocalizations and spoken language to communicate-grammar/word structure

Uses vocalizations and spoken language to communicate-questioning

Uses vocalizations and spoken language to communicate-conversation/dialogue

Develops ability to detect, manipulate, or analyze the auditory parts of spoken language.

Understands concept that the alphabet represents the sounds of spoken language and the letters of written language.

Shows appreciation of books and understands how print works.

Uses writing to represent thoughts or ideas.

Displays curiosity, risk-taking and willingness to engage in new experiences.

Engages in meaningful learning through attempting, repeating, experimenting, refining and elaborating on experiences and activities.

Exhibits persistence and flexibility

Engages in imaginative play and inventive thinking through interactions with people, materials and the environment

Expresses self creatively through music, movement and art.

Experiences a variety of routines, practices and languages.

Learns within the context of his/her family and culture.

Uses various styles of learning such as visual/spatial, verbal/linguistic, bodily/kinesthetic, interpersonal and intrapersonal.

Uses multi-sensory abilities to process information.

Understands new meanings as memory increases

Applies problem solving skills

Demonstrates understanding of numbers and counting

Understands number operations and relationships.

Explores, recognizes, and describes shapes and spatial relationships.

Uses the attributes of objects for comparison and patterning.

Understands the concept of measurement

Collects, describes, and records information using all senses.

Uses observation to gather information

Uses tools to gather information, compare observed objects, and seek answers to questions through active investigation.

Hypothesizes and makes predictions

Forms explanations based on trial and error, observations, and explorations.

Walks up and down stairs with alternating steps

Walks, runs, climbs, jumps, skips and hops with control

Throws objects with strength and control

Performs simple fine motor skills and manipulates smaller objects with increasing control

Uses strength and control to perform complex fine motor tasks.

Anticipates and adjusts behavior efficiency and engages in complex skills and abstract thinking.

Uses verbal and nonverbal language to express emotions in appropriate situations such as distress, contentment, surprise, disgust, jealousy and confusion.

Demonstrates awareness of own emotions and exhibits self-control.

Demonstrates empathy by recognizing the feelings of another person and responding appropriately.

Interprets others behaviors and emotions and responds appropriately

Displays pride in his/her accomplishments.

Demonstrates awareness of self as a unique individual.

Identifies self as a member of a specific culture, group or demographic that fits into a larger world picture.

Transitions into unfamiliar settings with assistance of familiar adults.

Acts independently in unfamiliar settings with unfamiliar adults

Demonstrates respect for others.

Remembers and follows simple group rules and displays appropriate school behavior.

Displays competence at engaging in appropriate social behavior.

Seeks adult assistance to resolve conflict.

Asserts needs and desires appropriately in conflict situations.

Uses a variety of strategies to resolve conflict.

Shows understanding of concept words and sequence of events.

Demonstrates understanding and listening skills by attending and responding appropriately.

Responds to increasingly complex language structures including comments, requests and questions.

Responds and extends conversations much like adults and can sustain a topic through multiple turns.

Understands and carries out a two-step direction. 

Follows a series of three or more multi-step directions.

Uses non-verbal communication much like adults.

Uses: plurals, pronouns, past tense.

Use multi-word sentences (parts of speech, word order and sentence structure) much like that of an adult.

Asks many questions with “why” to obtain information.

Initiates conversation, responds to conversations and stays on topic for multiple exchanges.

Uses language to effectively express feelings and thoughts, describe experiences and observations, interact with others and communicate effectively in group activities and discussions.

Recognizes and matches sounds and rhymes in familiar words.

Recognizes sounds that match and words that begin or end with the same sound.

Recognizes and produces rhyming words.

Discriminates separate syllables in spoke words and begins to blend and segment syllables.

Recognizes single sounds and combinations of sounds.

Uses a combination of letter sounds familiar environmental print and picture clues to recognize a printed word.

Experiences success in reading by sounds out words

Recognizes and names all letters of alphabet in familiar and unfamiliar words.

Reads familiar decodable and some irregular words in books, signs and labels

Understands the difference between letters, words and sentences.

Chooses reading activities and responds with interest and enjoyment.

Understands that books have characters, sequence of events and story plots.

Writes lists, thank you notes, names and labels objects in play.

Uses knowledge of sounds and letters to write some words and phrases (inventive and conventional spelling)

Is curious about and willing to try new and unfamiliar experiences and activities within their environment.

Experiments and practices to expand skill level.

Refines skills that have been successfully accomplished.

Persists with activity independently until goal is reached.

Sets and develops goals and follows through on plans making adjustments as necessary despite distractions and mishaps.

Recreates and acts out real-life and fantasy experiences in pretend play.

Expresses self (ideas, feelings and thoughts) through a variety of artistic media, music and movement.

Asks questions of adults about the differences between various routines, practices and language in a variety of settings

Understands and accepts diversity in other children and families.

Explores other learning styles when introduced by an adult or peer.

Uses a variety of learning styles to meet their needs or achieve their goals.

Uses senses and a variety of strategies to investigate information

Uses senses to generalize and apply prior learning.

Practices and applies new information or vocabulary to an activity or interaction (representation and symbolic thinking)

Generates a rule, strategy, or ideas from a previous learning experience and applies to a new context.

Makes statements and appropriately answers questions that require reasoning about objects, situations, or people.

Uses multiple strategies to solve problems.

Names and writes some numerals.

Counts 1 to 1 correspondence up to 20 objects and can tell the number that comes next.

Names and can write number symbols 1 through 20 and beyond.

May rote count to 100 and may count to 100 by 5’s and 10’s.

Identifies “1 more” and “1 less”

Joins (combines) and separates groups of objects.

Recognizes that there are parts that make up a whole and recognizes “less than” a whole.

Estimates and uses words such as more than, less/fewer than, about, near, approximately and in between.

Recognizes basic shapes.

Assembles puzzles of a least 15 intersecting pieces

Uses positional and comparative words to demonstrate understanding direction and location.

Recognizes duplicates, extends simple patterns and creates original patterns.

Locates which out of 5 objects does not belong in same class or category.

Matches at least 6 items according to class or category

Matches groups having equal numbers of objects up to 10.

Categorizes and sequences time intervals and uses language associated with time in everyday situations.

Identifies coins and understands their value.

Uses tools to explore measuring (non-standard units)

Categorizes, sequences time intervals in everyday situations, and demonstrates an awareness of time related to a clock.

Explores, compares and describes length, weight or volume using standard measurements.

Draws and describes pictures of objects and actions from memory.

Describes and records information through a variety of means, including discussion, drawings, maps, graphs, and charts

Begins to apply information collected to similar situations by designing own charts or graphs.

Purposefully seeks information through observation to satisfy curiosity or need for answers.

Discriminates properties of nature, using a variety of senses (part to whole, living/non-living, weather, etc.)

Uses books to look for information

Uses magnifying glass (hand lens), binoculars, and maps for investigation of the environment

Makes comparisons between objects that have been collected or observed.

Asks simple scientific questions and draws conclusions based on previous experience.

Makes plans for testing hypotheses to prove or disprove predictions

Explores and formulates conclusions based on observation and past experiences.

Makes responsible explanations, using date gathered from observation and experiments

Offers and seeks explanations of questions and experiments, using references such as books and computers.