Curriculum
Objectives for Development & Learning
Social-Emotional
Regulates own emotions and behaviors
Manages feelings
Follows limits and expectations
Takes care of own needs appropriately
Establishes and sustains positive relationships
Forms relationships with adults
Responds to emotional cues
Interacts with peers
Makes friends
Participates cooperatively and constructively in group situations
Balances needs and rights of self and others
Solves social problem
Physical
Demonstrates traveling skills
Demonstrates balancing skills
Demonstrates gross-motor manipulative skills
Demonstrates fine-motor strength and coordination
Uses fingers and hands
Uses writing and drawing skills
Language
Listens to and understands increasingly complex language
Comprehends language
Follows directions
Uses language to express thoughts and needs
Uses an expanding expressive vocabulary
Speaks clearly
Uses conventional grammar
Tells about another time or place
Uses appropriate conversational and other communication skills
Engages in conversations
Uses social rules of language
Cognitive
Demonstrates positive approaches to learning
Attends and engages
Persists
Solves problems
Shows curiosity and motivation
Shows flexibility and inventiveness in thinking
Remembers and connects experiences
Recognizes and recalls
Makes connections
Uses classification skills
Uses symbols and images to represent something not present
Thinks symbolically
Engages in sociodramatic play
Literacy
Demonstrates phonological awareness, phonics skills, and word recognition
Notices and discriminates rhyme
Notices and discriminates alliteration
Notices and discriminates discrete units of sound
Applies phonics concepts and knowledge of word structure to decode text
Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet
Identifies and names letters
Identifies letter-sound correspondences
Demonstrates knowledge of print and its uses
Uses and appreciates books and other texts
Uses print concepts
Comprehends and responds to books and other texts
Interacts during reading experiences, book conversations, and text reflections
Uses emergent reading skills
Retells stories and recounts details from informational texts
Uses context clues to read and comprehend texts
Reads fluently
Demonstrates writing skills
Writes name
Writes to convey ideas and information
Writes using conventions
Mathematics
Uses number concepts and operations
Counts
Quantities
Connects numerals with their quantities
Understand and uses place value and base ten
Applies properties of mathematical operations and relationships
Applies number combinations and mental number strategies in mathematical operations
Explores and describes spatial relationships and shapes
Understands spatial relationships
Understands shapes
Compares and measures
Measures objects
Measures times and money
Represents and analyzes data
Demonstrates knowledge of patterns
Science and Technology
Uses scientific inquiry skills
Demonstrate knowledge of the characteristics of living things
Demonstrates knowledge of the physical properties of objects and materials
Demonstrates knowledge of Earth’s environment
Uses tools and other technology to perform tasks
Social Studies
Demonstrate knowledge about self
Shows basic understanding of people and how they live
Explores change related to familiar people or places
Demonstrates simple geographic knowledge
The Arts
Explores the visual arts
Explores musical concepts and expression
Explores dance and movement concepts
Explores drama through actions and language
English Language Acquisition
Demonstrates progress in listening to and understanding English
Demonstrates progress in speaking English