Language and Speaking Skills

• Label items with words
• Listen to stories
• Develop fantasy play with language
• Retell a short personal story

Reading Skills

• Develop interest in exploring books
• Handling of books

Writing Skills

• Hold crayon, pencil or marker with fist grasp or adult grasp
• Scribble

Social and Emotional Skills

• Become comfortable in large setting
• Develop knowledge of others in his or her surroundings
• Exhibit self-control
• Follow simple rules and direction by adults
• Develop trust of other adults

Number Insight

• Classify, label and sort objects
• Match similar objects
• Play with pattern and sequence of order
• Rote counting

Measurement

• Compare quantities (more or less)
• Compare area (big or small)

Art

• Use colors that are real and imaginary in artwork
• Explore and create individual projects with all types of art mediums
• Experiment with creating different textures in playdough and clay
• Learn from the process, not the “product”

Music

• Use different movements (clap, stomp, pat, jump)
• Sing, using voices that are fast or slow, loud or soft
• Change voice to match different pitches

Science

• Attitudes and Habits
  • Display a curiosity about the world
  • Understand that questioning is part of the scientific process
  • Discover ways scientists make observations and solve problems

• Development of Concepts
  
  • Identify some body parts
  • Explore and identify senses

Health

• Give examples of healthy snacks
• Name ways to avoid germs
• Identify reasons for talking to an adult before using any unknown substance

Physical Growth

• Play simple, non-competitive games
• Demonstrate understanding of simple concepts ( up, down, high, low)
• Display a sense of risk-taking
• Balance body while doing simple stunts

Social Studies