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