Social-Emotional Development: refers to a child’s ability to identify and regulate feelings and to build relationships. Includes:

• self-concept: expresses preferences, takes responsibility, identifies and manages feelings
• self directions: follows rules and routines, maintains attention, transitions and adapts
• social relationships: builds positive relationships, cooperates, cares for and responds to others

Physical Development: includes fine motor and gross motor skills as well as safety.

• fine motor: controls fine movements, uses writing and drawing tools
• gross motor: builds strength and balance, coordinates large movements
• health and safety: makes healthy food and exercise choices, practices good hygiene, demonstrates safe practices

Language and Literacy Development:

• listening comprehension: comprehends spoken language, follows verbal directions
• communication: ability to communicate ideas and speak in short sentences
• vocabulary: builds vocabulary
• phonological awareness: hears small units of sound, can discriminate between rhyme and alliteration
• concepts of print: demonstrates print knowledge such as reading right to left, holding a book right side up, etc.
• letter and word recognition: identifies letters and words and make letter and sound connections
• reading comprehension: responds to text, retells, asks, and answers questions
• emergent writing: ability to write name, words and sentences and is able to express feelings through writing

Mathematics and Reasoning Development

• number concepts: identifies numbers, counts to determine quantity, understands operations
• shapes: identifies shapes, manipulates parts and wholes
• spacial awareness: flips and rotates objects, determines object locations
• patterns and sorting: identifies and creates patterns, matches, sorts, and charts
• measurement: estimates and measures, compares and seriates
• logic: solves problems

Social Studies Development

• families and communities: identifies families and community roles, explores cultures and traditions, respects diversity
• civics and economics: understands citizenship, understands concepts of trade
• geography: identifies types of places, uses maps
• history: describes past events

Science Development

• scientific reasoning:inquires and predicts, observes and experiments, evaluates and infers
• life science: identifies basic needs, classifies organisms
• physical sciences: identifies properties of matter, explores forces and motions
• earth science: explores weather and climates, explores ecosystems
• technology: explores technology

Creative Development

• music: develops rhythm and tone, expresses through music
• dance and movement: develops dance and movement techniques, expresses through dance and movement
• visual arts: develops artistic techniques, expresses through visual arts
• drama: participates in dramatic play, uses and creates props