List of 8 items.

• SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

  • Delays gratification
  • Speaks comfortably with familiar adults
  • Respects the authority of the teachers
  • Participates in the group life of the class
  • Initiates activities with peers – accept activities with peers
  • Learns to use appropriate language to express emotions or feelings 
  • Shows consideration and care for others
  • Seeks help from peers or adults
  • Respects the property of others
  • Uses good manners
  • Engages in collaborative play
  • Continues to gain control of physical impulses
  • Uses interpersonal skills, such as negotiating, sharing, and cooperating  

• CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR

  • Uses class materials purposefully
  • Follows classroom and playground rules and routines 
  • Manages transitions
  • Attends to tasks within varied contexts: 
    • Child-initiated and teacher-initiated
    • Whole group, small group, independent 
  • Persists in a task and seeks help when encountering a problem 
  • Understands and follows multiple-step directions
  • Shows eagerness and curiosity as a learner
  • Takes appropriate risks  

• PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

  • Engages in many self-help skills
  • Moves with balance, control, strength, and coordination to perform a variety of skills
  • Uses strength and control to perform simple fine-motor tasks 
  • Manipulates with some dexterity a variety of art and drawing materials  

• LITERACY

  Listening 

  • Follows two-step directions.
  • Attends to peers and adults
  • Listens to obtain information and solve problems  

  Speaking  

  • Is developing the ability to communicate thoughts and feelings
  • Begins to use age-appropriate articulation/voice 
  • Utilizes curriculum-based vocabulary
  • Initiates and responds to peers and adults
  • Contributes to group discussion with relevant comments
  • Begins to engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions, building on other’s ideas and expressing their own clearly
  • Begins to ask and respond to open-ended questions
  • Begins to retell events in a logical sequence 

  Reading 

   
  Phonemic Awareness 

  • Is beginning to recognize and produce rhymes
  • Is beginning to produce and identify initial sounds of a word
  • Segments syllables in words
  • Begins to recognize and produce sounds when prompted with a letter name
  • Recites the alphabet  

  Concepts of Print  

  • Begins to demonstrate book awareness, e.g. hold a book upright, turn pages from front of the book to the back, and scan pages from top to bottom and left to right
  • Looks at pictures in books and pretends to read
  • Understands that print is something to be read and has meaning  

  Word Work  

  • Recognizes first and last name environmental print
  • Begins to recognize classmates’ names
  • Recognizes some letters 

   Foundational Skills  

  • Shows an interest in literacy-related activities                         

  Writing  

   

  Process 

  • Represents thoughts and emotions as illustrations
  • Uses symbols and shapes to mimic writing
  • Draws-a-person 5-10 parts 

  Informational/Expository 

  • Dictates facts about a topic and adds a picture
  • Participates in teacher-led, guided research and writing projects (e.g. “how-to” books, class books)  

     

• MATH

  Numeration 

  • Shows curiosity and independent interest in number-related activities
  • Recognizes some numerals
  • Counts by rote from 0 – 20
  • Counts using one-to-one correspondence  

  Patterns and Functions  

  • Sorts objects by one or more attributes
  • Demonstrates an understanding of spatial awareness
  • Uses positional vocabulary
  • Recognizes and duplicate simple patterns
  • Demonstrates an understanding of  more than,  less than,  equal to  

  Operations & Computations  

  • Begins to demonstrate an understanding of estimation  

  Geometry  

  • Recognizes common geometric shapes  

  Measurement  

  • Describes and measure using concrete non-standard units
  • Begins to demonstrate an understanding of sequence and events  

  Data  

  • Begins to demonstrate an understanding of information from graphs  

• SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Becomes aware of different cultures 
  • Gains awareness of maps 
  • Begins to recreate environments  

• SCIENCE (In the Classrom)

  • Explores and investigate using five senses
  • Recognizes cause and effect
  • Asks questions about the natural world, make observations, and record conclusions from experiments
  • Compares and contrasts objects and events
  • Uses tools to investigate (microscope, magnifying glass, magnets, scales, rulers)
  • Uses science vocabulary ( sink, float, melt, freeze, solid, liquid)
  • Engages in simple experiments with a peer or small group
  • Makes and verifies predictions about what will occur  

• STEAM (Science, Technology, Art, Engineering, Math)

  • Uses multiple senses to observe the environment Formulates questions about surroundings
  • Explores the answers to questions they’ve generated
  • Predicts an outcome before an event takes place Explores multiple answers to questions
  • Uses technology to enhance comprehension Identifies data
  • Works safely in all science situations