Social Emotional Development

• Demonstrates ability to separate from parents
  
• Adjusts to new situations
  
• Begins to recognize and label own feelings
  
• Connects with teachers as a trusted adult
  
• Engages in simple interactions with peers
  
• Learns early social skills
  
• Engages in imaginative play
  

Self-Care & Personal Responsibility

• Able to wash hands on his/her own
  
• Indicates need to go to the bathroom and needs decreasing assistance
  
• Is able to drink from a cup and feed self with fork or spoon
  
• Choose from several activity options
  
• Demonstrates respect and care for classroom materials
  
• Participates in clean up with decreasing guidance
  
• Participates in group activities
  
• Follows classroom routines
  

Fine Motor

• Manipulates objects with increasing control
  
• Begins to attempt cutting with scissors
  
• Makes several basic strokes with a marker
  

Gross Motor

• Demonstrates basic large motor skills (running, jumping, hopping)
  
• Walks up and down stairs
  
• Begins to balance
  
• Begins to throw and catch balls
  

Cognitive Development

• Observes and examines objects
  
• Begins to show problem solving skills
  
• Recognizes & names basic colors and 3 or more shapes
  
• Begins to understand position words
  
• Sorts objects by color, shape or size
  
• Rote counts to 10 and begins to count objects
  

Language Skills

• Uses words to express needs
  
• Speech is understandable to most of the time
  
• Communicates in sentences
  
• Answers questions with more than yes or no
  
• Listens to stories
  
• Participates in songs and movement activities
  
• Understands and follows simple directions