Social and Emotional 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