Curiosity, Information-Seeking, and Eagerness

• Children show curiosity and express interest in the world around them.
• Children actively seek to understand the world around them.

Play and Imagination

• Children engage in increasingly complex play.
• Children demonstrate creativity, imagination, and inventiveness.

Risk-Taking, Problem-Solving, and Flexibility

• Children are willing to try new and challenging experiences.
• Children use a variety of strategies to solve problems.

Attentiveness, Effort, and Persistence

• Children demonstrate initiative.
• Children maintain attentiveness and focus.
• Children persist at challenging activities.

Developing a Sense of Self

• Children demonstrate a positive sense of self-identity and self-awareness.
• Children express positive feelings about themselves and confidence in what they can do.

Developing a Sense of Self with Others

• Children form relationships and interact positively with familiar adults who are consistent and responsive to their needs.
• Children form relationships and interact positively with other children.
• Children demonstrate the social and behavioral skills needed to successfully participate in groups.

Learning about Feelings

• Children identify, manage, and express their feelings.
• Children recognize and respond to the needs and feelings of others.

Physical Health and Growth

• Children develop healthy eating habits.
• Children engage in and sustain various forms of physical play indoors and outdoors.
• Children develop healthy sleeping habits.

Motor Development

• Children develop the large muscle control and abilities needed to move through and explore their environment.
• Children develop small muscle control and hand-eye coordination to manipulate object and work with tools.

Self-Care

• Children develop awareness of their needs and the ability to communicate their needs.
• Children develop independence in caring for themselves and their environment.

Safety Awareness

• Children develop awareness of basic safety rules and begin to follow them.

Learning to Communicate

• Children understand communications from others.
• Children participate in conversations with peers and adults in one-on-one, small, and larger group interactions.
• Children ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
• Children speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
• Children describe familiar people, places, things, and events.
• Children use most grammatical constructions of their home language well.
• Children respond to and use a growing vocabulary.

Foundations for Reading

• Children develop interest in books and motivation to read.
• Children develop book knowledge and print awareness.
• Children comprehend, and use information presented in books and other print media.
• Children develop phonological awareness.
• Children develop knowledge of the alphabet and the alphabetic principle.

Foundations for Writing

• Children use writing and other symbols to record information and communicate for a variety of purposes.
• Children use knowledge of letters in their attempts to write.
• Children use writing skills and writing conventions.

Foundations for Number Sense

• Children demonstrate a beginning understanding of numbers and quantity during play and other activities.
• Children demonstrate a beginning understanding of numbers and operations during play and other activities.

Foundations for Algebraic Thinking

• Children demonstrate a beginning understanding of algebraic thinking by sorting, describing, extending, and creating simple patterns during play and other activities

Foundations for Geometry and Spatial Understanding

• Children begin to identify, describe, classify and understand shape, size, direction and movement during play and other activities

Foundations for Measurement and Data Analysis

• Children demonstrate a beginning understanding of measurement (the idea of repeating the use of an object to measure) and a beginning understanding of data analysis through comparing, and interpreting data during play and other activities

Mathematical Thinking and Reasoning

• Children use mathematical thinking to solve problems in their everyday environment

Construction of Knowledge: Thinking and Reasoning

• Children use their senses to construct knowledge about the world around them.
• Children recall information and use it for addressing new situations and problems.
• Children demonstrate the ability to think about their own thinking: reasoning, taking perspectives, and making decisions.

Creative Expression

• Children demonstrate appreciation for different forms of artistic expression.
• Children demonstrate self-expression and creativity in a variety of forms and contexts, including play, visual arts, music, drama and dance.

Social Connections

• Children demonstrate knowledge of relationships and roles within their own families, homes, classrooms, and communities.
• Children recognize that they are members of different groups (e.g. family, preschool class, cultural group).
• Children identify and demonstrate acceptance of similarities and differences between themselves and others.
• Children explore concepts connected with their daily experiences in their community.

Scientific Exploration and Knowledge

• Children observe and describe characteristics of living things and the physical world.
• Children explore the natural world by observing, manipulating objects, asking questions, making predications, and developing generalizations.