Social and Emotional Skills
Fine Motor Skills
Gross Motor Skills
Language/Literacy Skills
Self-Reliance Skills
Math and Science Skills
- Respect and shows concern for others
- Accepts and responds to teacher’s suggestions and authority
- Begins to play cooperatively with others
- Is learning Conscious Discipline routines and language
- Involved in and attending activities for a longer period of time
- Engages in circle time
- Participates in prayer and music and movement
Fine Motor Skills
- Colors with crayons with increasing control
- Holds crayon with fingers rather that fist
- Begins to write name in capital letters
- Applies glue
- Strings beads
- Draws combination of simple shapes (i.e. house, person)
- Begin to draw a person
- Begins to cut with scissors
- Puts together 6-7 piece puzzle
- Begins to build simple and then more complex structures
Gross Motor Skills
- Throws and catches large ball
- Jumps on two feet in place
- Walks upstairs and downstairs alone
- Kicks a ball forward
- Negotiates playground equipment
Language/Literacy Skills
- Shows increasing awareness of print in classroom (i.e. names)
- Verbalizes wants and ideas
- Points to six body parts when named
- Names body parts (head, hands, arms, knees, legs, chin, feet and face parts)
- Begins to demonstrate concepts of books
- Listens quietly to stories
- Responds to a story by answering questions
- Communicates in sentences- 5-6 words
- Beginning to take turns speaking in a group
- Repeats rhymes, songs, and finger plays
- Uses I, you, me, he, and she appropriately
- Understands some opposites words like up/down; open/closed; stop/go; happy/sad; slow/fast; hot/cold
- Understands some prepositions like in, out, over, under, on, off, top, bottom, in front of, in back of
- Shows an increase in vocabulary
- Follows two step directions
- Recognizes name
Self-Reliance Skills
- Helps put things away
- Tells own full name, sex, and age
- With little or no help continues to develop self-help skills (i.e. toileting, hand washing, putting on shoes and coat-zipping)
Math and Science Skills
- Can name basic shapes (circle, square, triangle, and rectangle)
- Begins to sort
- Can identify some colors
- Can count up to 4 objects (1:1 correspondence)
- Counts 1-10
- Begins to understand sizing concepts
- Begins to observe things in the environment