• Take care of personal belongings
• Take part in creating classroom rules and apply school rules and school/community safety practices to establish personal responsibilities of citizenship
• Attempt to work out conflicts in an appropriate manner
• Communicate feelings with others
• Work and play well with others
• Actively participate in classroom activities
• Feel secure and at ease
• Demonstrate attention span appropriate for this age
• Work independently
• Work cooperatively in a group
• Stay with task until it is finished
• Clean up after activities

• Make good use of time
• Follow and remember directions
• Treat others with respect
• Respect the property of others
• Wait their turn
• Make smooth transitions
• Have a sense of self
  • Feel secure and at ease
  • Know their first and last names
  • Know their phone number or an emergency number
• Have a sense of family
  • Know their parent or guardian's first and last name
• Have a sense of the world around them through dramatic play

Gross Motor Skills

• Move their body with control when walking, running, jumping, hopping and galloping
• Bounce a ball
• Catch a ball
• Throw a ball

Fine Motor Skills

• Hold scissors correctly
• Use scissors with control when snipping, cutting straight, cutting curved, cutting zigzag lines, cutting a square and cutting a circle
• Color with control
• Recognize first and last name beginning with capital letter and the rest in lower case letters
• Print first name beginning with capital letter and the rest in lower case
• Attempts to print last name beginning with capital letter and the rest in lower case
• Be introduced to beginning writing skills including:
  • Top to bottom
  • Left to right
  • Closed circular motion top to left
  • Lower and upper case alphabet
  • Numerals for 0-10

• Differentiate between feelings (calm, surprised, happy, and upset)
• Identify health helpers
• Demonstrate the proper procedure for brushing and flossing teeth
• Identify foods that promote good dental health
• Be introduced to dental workers
• Make good choices regarding sleep, exercise and healthy food
• Tell the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touch

• Get help if harmed
• Demonstrate specific practices that prevent and control the spread of communicable diseases
• Identify poisonous containers found around home
• Identify medicines as drugs
• List reasons not to smoke
• Show empathy toward those who have HIV-AIDS virus (or any other disease)

• Use shapes and lines to create art.
• Identify various textures (i.e., smooth, rough, hard, soft, etc.)
• Differentiate between things that are flat and things that are dimensional
• Use art as self-expression
• Emphasize manipulating art tools and materials
• Exposure to famous artists and their work

• Sing, echo, and perform a variety of rhythms and melodies
• Use movement to express many different concepts in music
• Demonstrate the ability to keep a steady beat
• Use age appropriate instruments to accompany music
• Learn basic musical notation
• Listening to and describing a variety of musical styles

• Demonstrate simple basic motor skills such as run, hop, jump, walk a line, gallop and slide
• Demonstrate the appropriate form for tossing a ball underhand & overhand, catching a ball, kicking a ball, and striking a ball (i.e. with a bat)
• Demonstrate some non-motor movement such as stretching, bending, pulling, and swinging
• Demonstrate the ability to change speeds in movement and change directions
• Demonstrate to combine different movements at different speeds
• Demonstrate his/her ability to play by the rules set for a certain activity (i.e. take turns, stay on a line)
• Demonstrate appropriate behavior (i.e. good sportsmanship, fairness, and cooperation)

Speaking and Listening

• Communicate effectively with others
• Speak in complete sentences
• Contribute ideas to group discussion
• Experience rhymes, poems and finger plays
• Answer simple and open-ended questions
• Listen when others speak
• Wait their turn to speak
• Follow 3+ step oral direction
• Speak comfortably in front of a group
• Uses appropriate positional words (i.e. on, in, under, over, etc.)

Writing

• Express thoughts on paper through pictures and beginning writing (i.e. scribbling, simple letter formations, inventive spelling and student dictated sentences)

Attitude

• Recognize that reading is talk written down
• Demonstrate a positive attitude toward reading
• Pick up a book during free time at home and school
• Enjoy having books read to them
• Enjoy going to the library
  

Understanding Content

• Recognize the difference between narrative and expository texts
• Use books and pictures to discover new things
• Acquire, interpret, and share information from people, books, and observations

Process

• The purpose of reading a story
• The ability to activate prior knowledge
• The title, the author and the illustrator of a book
• Demonstrate that it is important to look, listen and think during reading (or being read to)
• The character, setting, problem and solution of a story
• Major events of a story
• Discuss "What did I learn?" from a story
• Rhyme supply
• Recognize predictable patterns
• Use a variety of strategies to identify words and monitor meaning (Context Clues: i.e. key words, pictures, asks to have things reread)
• Demonstrate left to right and top to bottom tracking
• Identify upper and lower case letters and sounds
• Identify some sight words (i.e. names, stop, exit, etc.)

• Replicates patterns
• Recognizes geometric solids: sphere, cube, cone, cylinder, and prism
• Understands concept of ordinal numbers
• Compares objects by length, weight, and capacity
• Compares attributes of objects (i.e. size, shape, color)
• Counts backwards from 10-0
• Uses one-to-one correspondence to count 30 objects
• Understands grouping by tens as an efficient way of counting
• Counts up to 100+ by 1’s

• Counts to 30+ by 5’s
• Counts to 30 by 10’s
• Counts to 30 by 2’s
• Reads numbers 30+
• Writes numbers 0-30
• Tells time to the hour (analog and digital)
• Makes a simple graph (e.g. candies) and shares observations
• Understand and participates in mathematical games used in the classroom
• Builds number families to 5
• Explains how to add or subtract when given a number story

• Compare and contrast changes in self and other individuals in various life stages
• Describe their impact, and how they can be caretakers of the environment
• Differentiate between personal wants and needs
• Analyze similarities and differences among individuals and within families
• Exposed to different map reading skills

• Exposure to different holiday symbols and traditions
• Exposure to core democratic values
• Recognizes characteristics that are the same and different
• Identify community helpers
• Describe how families are alike and different