Preschool Curriculum
Nurturing growth across multiple early learning domains.
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REGULATES OWN EMOTIONS AND BEHAVIORS
- Manages feelings
- Follows limits and expectations
- Takes care of own needs
ESTABLISHES AND SUSTAINS POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS
- Responds to emotional cues
- Interacts with peers
- Makes friends
PARTICIPATES COOPERATIVELY IN GROUP SITUATIONS
- Balances needs and rights of self and others
- Solves social problems
DEMONSTRATES TRAVELING SKILLS
DEMONSTRATES BALANCING SKILLS
DEMONSTRATES GROSS-MOTOR MANIPULATIVE SKILLS
DEMONSTRATES FINE-MOTOR STRENGTH & COORDINATION
- Uses fingers and hands
- Uses writing and drawing tool
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
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
DEMONSTRATES PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
- Notices and discriminates rhyme and alliteration
- Notices and discriminates smaller and smaller units of sound
DEMONSTRATES KNOWLEDGE OF THE ALPHABET
- Identifies and names letters
- Letter sound knowledge
DEMONSTRATES KNOWLEDGE OF PRINT AND ITS USES
- Uses and appreciates books
- Uses print concepts
COMPREHENDS / RESPONDS TO BOOKS & TEXTS
- Interacts during read-alouds
- Retells stories
DEMONSTRATES EMERGENT WRITING SKILLS
- Writes name
- Writes to convey meaning
USES NUMBER CONCEPTS AND OPERATIONS
- Counts
- Quantifies
- Connects numerals with their quantities
EXPLORES / DESCRIBES SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND SHAPES
- Understands spatial relationships
- Understands shapes
COMPARES AND MEASURES
- Uses size words or gestures to describe objects.
- Compares sets of objects.
- Explores two objects by making direct comparisons.
DEMONSTRATES KNOWLEDGE OF PATTERNS
- Order three to five objects
- Recognizes patterns in the environment
- Recognizes a simple AB pattern
USES SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY SKILLS
- Identifies sense organs
- Use senses to observe
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF LIVING THINGS
- Plants, animals and their environments
THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF OBJECTS AND MATERIALS
- Identify physical properties and state of matter of objects or materials
EARTH’S ENVIRONMENT
- Properties of water, rocks, soil, sand and mud
USES TOOLS AND OTHER TECHNOLOGY TO PERFORM TASK
- Use of simple tools and equipment for observing and investigating
- Explores and identifies simple machines
DEMONSTRATES KNOWLEDGE ABOUT SELF
- Identifies family traditions, celebrations, songs, food or language
- Characteristics of self as an individual
SHOWS BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF PEOPLE AND HOW THEY LIVE
- Responds to the needs of others
- Community
- Occupations
EXPLORES CHANGE RELATED TO FAMILIAR PEOPLE OR PLACES
- Identify own personal space
DEMONSTRATES SIMPLE GEOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE
- Explores own environment
- Recognizes basic landmarks or land features
- Maps, globes or GPS
EXPLORES THE VISUAL ARTS
EXPLORES MUSICAL CONCEPTS AND EXPRESSION
EXPLORES DANCE AND MOVEMENT CONCEPTS
EXPLORES DRAMA THROUGH ACTIONS AND LANGUAGE
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