Social and Emotional Skills

• Respects and shows concern for others
• Accepts and responds to teacher’s suggestions and authority
• Plays, shares, and creates with other children
• Expresses feelings appropriately
• Involved in and sustains in activities for longer periods of time
• Show empathy towards other children
• Begins to negotiate solutions to conflicts by using compromise
• Demonstrates confidence and pride in self through their work
• Identifies expressions of feelings
• Follows 3 step directions

Work Habits

• Follows routines independently
• Follows directions
• Works alone appropriately
• Works well in small groups
• Does not disturb classmates'work
• Seeks only fair share of teacher's attention
• Works neatly
• Takes care and cleans up work materials
  
  

Fine Motor Skills

• Uses crayons with control mature grip
• Applies glue and paste
• Strings small beads
• Draws a human figure with body parts (circle, horizontal line, cross
• Uses scissors with control to cut along straight and curved lines
• Puts together a 10 piece puzzle
• Prints first name in capital letters

Gross Motor Skills

• Throws and catches a ball
• Jumps on two feet in place
• Walks upstairs and downstairs alone
• Kicks a ball forward
• Hops one foot and two feet
• Balances on one foot for five seconds
• Walks a line heel-to-toe for eight feet without falling off
• Stops movement activity upon teacher’s direction
• Moves body creatively upon teacher’s direction
• Claps and marches in time with music
• Responds to rhythms with appropriate body movements

Language/Literacy Skills

• Verbalizes wants and ideas using complete sentences
• Listens quietly to stories
• Responds to a story by recalling details
• Shows an interest in the printed word
• Begins to take turns speaking in a group
• Verbalizes rhymes, songs, and finger plays
• Uses I, you, me, he, and she correctly
• Understands opposites up/down; open/closed; stop/go; happy/sad; slow/fast; hot/cold
• Understands prepositions in out, over, under, on off, top, bottom, in front of, in back of
• Makes relevant contributions in small group discussion
• Begins to show understanding of past, present and future tenses by using proper verb form
• Dictates own experience stories
• Listens, retells and recalls directions for games and activities
• Identifies most letters of the alphabet
• Distinguishes words that begin with the same sound and creates rhymes
• Student proposes alternative ways of doing art experiences, movement activities, and story endings
• Participates verbally and nonverbally in imaginative play or puppetry
• Expands vocabulary
• Participates verbally and nonverbally in imaginative play or puppetry
• Syllable claps up to three
• Recognizes first name

Self-Reliance Skills

• Points to body parts when named
• Helps put things away
• Develops growing capacity for independence in a range of activities and routines
• Verbalizes full name, sex, age, address, birthday, and telephone number
• Continues to develop self-help skills (i.e. toileting, hand wash, putting on shoes and coat)
• Begins to be independent in manipulating zippers, buttons, and snaps

Math and Science Skills

• Points to and names basic shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, diamond, oval and star)
• Shows an understanding of basic physical properties (size, color, texture, weight) by comparing, contrasting, and classifying
• Understands number concepts (when presented with a given number of objects, child can tell how many there are up to six)
• Counts from 1-20
• Show respect for leaving things and the environment
• Begins to understand life cycles and basic eco system concepts
• Demonstrates awareness of numbers and counting as a means for solving problems and determining quantity
• Duplicates and expands simple patterns