me + you

  • learning objectives for toddlers
  • sense of self

self-competence

  • Begins to identify and express own needs, preferences and limitations
  • Shows awareness of own emotion and uses verbal and non-verbal ways to express them
  • Begins to identify own characteristics and shows pride in own accomplishments
  • Begins to accomplish tasks independently
  • Demonstrates emerging ability to persist in carrying out a plan or action in spite of obstacles, disappointment, frustration, or failure

resilience

  • Demonstrates emerging ability to express and regulate emotions with teacher support
  • Demonstrates beginning flexibility in a variety of situations, tasks, activities and problem-solving
  • Demonstrates emerging ability to seek support and assistance from trusted adults
  • With teacher support, shows beginning ability to use a variety of coping skills to bounce back from challenges and negative emotions

self-management

  • Demonstrates emerging ability to follow rules, routines, and appropriate social behavior with adult support
  • Shows likes and dislikes for activities, experiences, and interactions and independently selects materials and utilizes them
  • Begins to initiate simple tasks independently
  • Demonstrates emerging ability to express and regulate emotions with teacher support
  • citizenship

good citizenship

  • Is familiar with community members
  • Demonstrates emerging ability to follow rules, routines, and appropriate social behavior with adult support
  • Shows beginning ability to take care of possessions, equipment and materials belonging to self, others, and the classroom community
  • Displays understanding of engaging in routines, rules and prosocial behavior with teacher support

mindfulness

  • Displays understanding of engaging in routines, rules and prosocial behavior with teacher support
  • Shows awareness of own emotions and beginning ability to emotionally self-regulate
  • Demonstrates positive emotions
  • Shows emerging ability to use simple strategies to cope with own emotions and self-calm

helpfulness

  • Is able to seek help from adults
  • Shows beginning ability to recognize when others may need help and attempts to assist
  • Demonstrates emerging ability to be helpful to the group
  • relationships

integrity

  • Begins to identify and express own needs, preferences and limitations
  • Begins to practice honesty
  • Displays understanding of engaging in routines, rules and prosocial behavior with teacher support
  • Begins to initiate simple tasks independently and demonstrate emerging accountability
  • Begins to identify and express own needs, preferences, and limitations

compassion

  • Begins to identify and express own needs, preferences and limitations
  • Recognizes and expresses emotions and uses simple strategies to cope with their own emotions
  • Understands that other people have feelings that are different from their own
  • Uses words or gestures to express concern for the needs and suffering of others and shows beginning motivation to assist them

respect for self + others

  • Demonstrates emerging capacity for self-respect by attempting self-care, beginning to identify and express own needs, preferences and limitations
  • Demonstrates emerging respect for others by being sensitive to their feelings and well-being
  • Demonstrates simple prosocial behavior and respect for social norms
  • Shows beginning ability to take care of possessions, equipment and materials belonging to self, others, and the classroom community
  • leadership

courage

  • Is able to recognize when they are afraid
  • Attempts to try new activities multiple times before moving on

positive attitude

  • Shows confidence in own abilities and emerging independence
  • Shows interest in what others are doing
  • Expresses and labels excitement and happiness
  • With teacher support, shows beginning ability to use a variety of coping skills to bounce back from challenges and negative emotions

responsibility

  • Demonstrates emerging self-help skills
  • Understands that their actions have tangible consequences
  • Recognizes the importance of others’ keeping promises
  • relationship building

positive relationships

  • Uses trusted adult as a secure base from which to explore the world
  • Demonstrates concern about the feelings of others
  • Uses successful strategies for entering groups
  • Plays with one or two preferred playmates
  • Takes turns
  • Seeks adult help to resolve social problems
  • global citizens
    social studies

self, family, community

  • Asks simple questions regarding differences and/or similarities between self and others
  • Uses simple words to identify immediate family members
  • Displays knowledge of basic concepts of own culture and background as well as others

time + history

  • Demonstrates awareness of and begins to simply label past and present
  • Recognizes sequence of events, repetition, familiar people and objects and symbolic representation

geography

  • Uses some simple terms related to location, direction and distance.
  • Demonstrates emerging knowledge of the various ways people communicate, travel, live, and work

civics

  • Demonstrates ability to make choices and adhere to group rules.
  • Demonstrates emerging knowledge of leadership and authority

economics

  • Understands and expresses needs and wants and concept of “more”.
  • Identifies some basic needs and how to meet them.
  • Demonstrates emerging recognition of the concepts of scarcity

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brainpower

  • learning objectives for toddlers
  • approaches to learning

learning strategies

  • Explores and investigates ways to make something happen
  • Uses creativity and imagination during play and routine tasks
  • Recalls familiar people, places, objects, and actions from the past (a few months before); recalls 1 or 2 items removed from view
  • Remembers the sequence of personal routines and experiences with teacher support
  • Is able to pay attention for short periods of time
  • reasoning + concept development

classification

  • Places objects in two or more groups based on differences in a single characteristic, color, size, or shape

using symbols

  • Acts out familiar or imaginary scenarios; may use props to stand for something else
  • math

numbers

  • Verbally counts (not always in the correct order)
  • Demonstrates understanding of the concepts of one, two, and more
  • Recognizes some numerals in the everyday environment

shapes + spacial relationships

  • Follows simple directions related to proximity (beside, between, next to)
  • Matches two identical shapes

comparison

  • Makes simple comparisons between two objects

patterns

  • Copies simple repeating patterns
  • technology

tech knowledge

  • Imitates, uses and communicates about technology in their environment
  • engineering

design + building

  • Develops an understanding of the principles, processes, and tools that assist people and animals in designing and building
  • Uses simple tools to experiment and observe functions
  • Makes and implements a simple engineering plan with teacher support
  • science

scientific method

  • Engages in elements of the scientific process, including observation, using tools, simple predictions, and trying out ideas

living things

  • Explores a variety of living and non-living objects and makes simple observations

physical science

  • Begins to use words to describe physical properties and states of matter of objects
  • Demonstrates ability to move objects, and explores motions to play with toys with adult support
  • Demonstrates awareness of cause and effect
  • Demonstrates an awareness of simple chemical processes
  • Explores concepts and vocabulary related to sound, light and electricity

earth + space

  • Explores and identifies some of Earth’s features, seasons, and weather
  • Identifies familiar people and living things in the environment and participates with assistance in efforts to care for it
  • Can identify objects in the sky

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healthy me

  • learning objectives for toddlers
  • body awareness + motor development

traveling

  • Experiments with different ways of moving

balancing

  • Experiments with different ways of balancing

gross-motor manipulation

  • Manipulates balls or similar objects with stiff body movements

fine-motor strength and coordination

  • Uses fingers and whole-arm movements to manipulate and explore objects
  • Grips drawing and writing tools with whole hand but may use whole-arm movements to make marks
  • healthy habits

learning healthy habits

  • Demonstrates emerging ability to express and regulate emotions with teacher support
  • Demonstrates emerging food preferences and willingness to try new foods
  • Demonstrates emerging awareness of good health routines
  • Shows emerging ability to use simple strategies to cope with own emotions and self-calm

safety

  • Demonstrates beginning ability to follow safety rules and emergency routines
  • Shows emerging ability to identify ways adults help keep us safe and asks for assistance
  • Responds appropriately to redirection by adults in order to avoid unsafe situations

making good choices

  • Demonstrates beginning flexibility in a variety of situations, tasks, activities, and problem-solving
  • Displays understanding of engaging in routines, rules, and prosocial behavior with teacher support
  • Begins to understand consequences of own actions with adult support

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wordsmart

  • learning objectives for toddlers
  • listening

language

  • Identifies familiar people, animals, and objects when prompted
  • Follows simple requests not accompanied by gestures
  • speaking

using language

  • Names familiar people, animals, and objects
  • Uses some words and word-like sounds and is understood by most familiar people
  • Uses three- to four-word sentences; may omit some words or use some words incorrectly
  • Tells simple stories about objects, events, and people not present; lacks many details and a conventional beginning, middle, and end

conversation

  • Initiates and attends to brief conversation
  • Uses appropriate eye contact, pauses, and simple verbal prompts when communicating
  • prereading

phonetics

  • Fills in the missing rhyming word; generates rhyming words spontaneously
  • Sings songs and recites rhymes and refrains with repeating initial sounds
  • Segments phrases into single words

letters

  • Listens to letters introduced through songs, language, and print
  • Begins to learn alphabet and recognizes that pictures are used to communicate language

print

  • Shows growing enjoyment in books and reading
  • Recognizes that books are different from other objects and can be used for storytelling

narrative

  • Uses words to describe or name pictures when reading
  • Retells some events in a familiar story with modeling and assistance
  • With prompting and support, responds to simple questions about a story
  • prewriting

writing

  • Makes controlled linear scribbles

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imagine that

  • learning objectives for toddlers
  • art

visual art

  • Begins to use materials with intention
  • Explores how color conveys emotion
  • Identifies similarities and differences among samples of visual art
  • music

musical expression

  • Participates in activities that explore pitch, tempo, and volume
  • Uses age appropriate instruments to create sound
  • Sings both independently and in a group setting
  • dance + movement

dancing

  • Engages in dancing and movement activities
  • Participates in simple sequences of movements
  • dramatic play

drama

  • Begins to use props to explore their world and the role people play
  • Demonstrates interest when watching music, dance, or theater performances by others
  • Participates in a variety of activities that link performance and emotion

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