me + you

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self-competence

  • Expresses needs and preferences through vocalizations and body movements
  • Expresses a variety of emotions through facial expressions, gestures, actions, and verbalizing
  • Begins to identify self and shows pride in own accomplishments
  • Demonstrates emerging intentional actions and routines
  • Repeats actions to make something happen again, and explores new activities in the comfort of a familiar surrounding or adult

resilience

  • Demonstrates emerging ability to express emotion
  • Demonstrates emerging flexibility in a variety of situations, tasks, activities, and problem-solving
  • Demonstrates emerging ability to seek support and assistance from trusted adults
  • Is able to be soothed and comforted

self-management

  • Begins to follow simple rules and routines with adult support
  • Exhibits interest in people and things in their surroundings and selects an item of interest by pointing and/or reaching for it
  • Performs simple actions to make things happen.
  • Demonstrates emerging ability to express emotion
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good citizenship

  • Begins to be familiar with community members
  • Begins to follow simple rules and routines with adult support
  • Demonstrates emerging respect for others by recognizing simple differences between people and being sensitive to their feelings
  • Begins to follow simple routines and prosocial behavior with adult support

mindfulness

  • Pays attention to sights and sounds
  • Expresses a variety of emotions through facial expressions, gestures, movement, and sounds
  • Demonstrates emerging positive emotions.
  • Begins to use simple strategies to self-calm

helpfulness

  • Shows beginning ability to seek help from adults
  • Shows emerging ability to respond to the distress of others
  • Demonstrates beginning ability to follow routines
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integrity

  • Expresses needs and preferences through vocalizations and body movements
  • Demonstrates emerging capacity for cooperation
  • Begins to follow simple routines and prosocial behavior with adult support
  • Performs simple actions to make things happen, notices the relationships between events

compassion

  • Is able to recognize others' suffering
  • Demonstrates ability to discern others' feelings
  • Demonstrates awareness of others' feelings by reacting to their emotional expressions
  • Expresses emotions and begins to use simple strategies to self-calm
  • Shows beginning awareness of another's distress and motivation to assist them

respect for self + others

  • Expresses needs and preferences through vocalizations and body movements
  • Demonstrates emerging understanding of how to physically interact with others
  • Demonstrates emerging prosocial behavior and ability to engage in social norms
  • Demonstrates emerging respect for others by recognizing simple differences between people and being sensitive to their feelings
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courage

  • Adapts to diverse settings
  • Repeats actions to make something happen again, and explores new activities in the comfort of a familiar adult

positive attitude

  • Shows emerging excitement and confidence in own abilities
  • Shows eagerness and delight in self, others, and surroundings
  • Shows excitement and happiness
  • Is able to be soothed and comforted

responsibility

  • Participates in activities that allow their needs to be met
  • Begins to understand the concept of cause and effect
  • Recognizes adults' roles in caring for them
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positive relationships

  • Demonstrates a secure attachment to one or more adults
  • Responds to changes in an adult's tone of voice and expression
  • Plays near other children; uses similar materials or actions
  • Interacts with caregivers and peers
  • Responds appropriately to others' expressions of wants
  • Expresses feelings during a conflict
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self, family, community

  • Shows awareness of self and awareness of other people
  • Uses sounds, facial expressions, or body movements when recognizing family members
  • Recognizes simple differences between people

time + history

  • Demonstrates emerging awareness of present and future
  • Responds to changes in routine or schedule

geography

  • Experiments with physical relationships
  • Recognizes personal objects and that people and objects have an appropriate location

civics

  • Demonstrates ability to make choices and adhere to group rules
  • Shows awareness of self and of other people

economics

  • Depends on others to provide for wants and needs
  • Makes basic needs known
  • Understands the concept of "more"

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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me + you

  • learning objectives for preschoolers
  • sense of self

self-competence

  • Identifies and begins to advocate for own needs, preferences, opinions, and limitations
  • Is able to identify and verbally express emotions with teacher support
  • Begins to identify and show pride in own characteristics, abilities, and accomplishments
  • Accomplishes routine tasks and is able to play and learn with growing independence
  • With teacher support, is able to persist in carrying out a plan or action in spite of obstacles, disappointment, frustration, or failure

resilience

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

self-management

  • Demonstrates beginning ability to follow rules, routines, and appropriate social behavior
  • Begins to display motivation for learning about or accomplishing a range of ideas, concepts, and tasks that are of self-interest and necessity
  • Makes plans and follows through on intentions with support, and manages personal time and responsibilities effectively
  • Demonstrates beginning ability to express and regulate emotions with teacher support
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good citizenship

  • Begins to identify community members, characteristics, and functions
  • Demonstrates beginning ability to follow rules, routines, and appropriate social behavior
  • With reminders, demonstrates respect for possessions, equipment and materials belonging to self, others, and the classroom community
  • Demonstrates responsible behavior with teacher support

mindfulness

  • Shows strong attention skills during preferred activities
  • Demonstrates beginning awareness of inner experience and ability to choose responses to challenging events
  • Demonstrates emerging ability to cultivate positive emotions such as gratitude, joy, kindness, compassion, equanimity, and forgiveness
  • Recognizes and expresses emotions and uses simple strategies to self-calm

helpfulness

  • Is usually able to seek help from adults and identify support needed
  • Is able to recognize when others need help, assisting with prompts
  • Can identify and implement a few ways to be helpful at home, in school, and in the community
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integrity

  • With help, is able to define integrity and some key characteristics, and begins to advocate for own beliefs
  • Begins to consistently practice honesty
  • Demonstrates responsible behavior with teacher support
  • Is accountable and dependable for actions and words with teacher support
  • With support, works to complete projects to own satisfaction based on personal standards of quality or completion

compassion

  • Demonstrates beginning ability to recognize and predict others’ feelings and suffering, and perceive when they need help
  • Demonstrates beginning ability to be tolerant towards another person’s feelings even when they create negative emotions (such as frustration, anger, fear, or disgust) in themself
  • With adult support, begins to demonstrate empathy towards others through imagining their feelings, speculating on where they come from, and why they might be different from their own
  • With adult support, is able to tolerate difficult emotions in themselves when confronted with someone else’s suffering
  • Expresses concern for the needs and suffering of others and is motivated with reminders to assist them

respect for self + others

  • Demonstrates beginning capacity for self-respect by practicing self-care, identifying and beginning to advocate for own needs, preferences, opinions and limitations, and valuing and appreciating themselves
  • Demonstrates beginning respect for others by being sensitive to their feelings and well-being, as well as accepting and being supportive even when there are differences
  • With adult reminders, demonstrates respect for social norms
  • With reminders, demonstrates respect for possessions, equipment, and materials belonging to self, others, and the classroom community
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courage

  • Is able to define courage and list one or two strategies to overcome fears
  • Demonstrates emerging willingness to take on and handle new challenges with the support of a familiar adult

positive attitude

  • Shows confidence in own abilities and independence with support
  • Demonstrates increased willingness to participate in both familiar and new experiences
  • Demonstrates optimism with teacher prompts
  • With teacher support is able to use a variety of coping skills to bounce back from challenges and negative emotions

responsibility

  • Is able to take care of self and belongings with minimal prompting
  • Begins to understand how their actions affect others
  • With teacher reminders, keeps promises and commitments given to others
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positive relationship

  • Manages separations without distress and engages with adults
  • Identifies basic emotional reactions of others and their causes accurately
  • Initiates, joins in, and sustains positive interactions with a small group of two to three children
  • Establishes a special friendship with one other child, but the friendship might only last a short while
  • Suggests solutions to social problems
  • Initiates the sharing of materials in the classroom and outdoors
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self, family, community

  • Describes characteristics of self and others, and begins to recognize each person's uniqueness and importance
  • Describes family members and begins to understand simple relationships to one another, how families are similar and different
  • Begins to develop awareness, knowledge, and appreciation of own and others' culture

time + history

  • Demonstrates awareness of time by speaking about past, present, and future, though not always accurately
  • Demonstrates an emerging awareness of history by understanding of past events, changes over time, and connections to the past

geography

  • Demonstrates emerging geographic literacy by using some geographic terminology and concepts
  • Begins to demonstrate knowledge of the various ways people communicate, travel, live, and work

civics

  • Demonstrates emerging knowledge of rights and responsibilities of citizenship
  • Demonstrates simple knowledge of the role and importance of government

economics

  • Demonstrates beginning awareness of and describes how people interact economically and the exchange of goods and services
  • Identifies some basic needs and how to meet them
  • Demonstrates beginning knowledge of the concepts of scarcity and saving

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me + you

  • learning objectives for prekindergarteners
  • sense of self

self-competence

  • Identifies and advocates for own needs, preferences, opinions, and limitations
  • Identifies and verbally expresses emotions
  • Shows pride in own characteristics, abilities, and accomplishments
  • Accomplishes routine tasks and is able to play and work independently
  • Is able to persist in the face of obstacles, disappointment, frustration, or failure

resilience

  • Demonstrates the ability to express and regulate emotions
  • Demonstrates adaptability and flexibility in a variety of situations, tasks, activities, and problem-solving
  • Can seek support from trusted adults and peers, and believes in own abilities
  • Demonstrates coping skills to bounce back from challenges and negative emotions

self-management

  • Independently follows rules and routines and appropriate social behavior
  • Displays motivation for learning about or accomplishing a range of ideas, concepts, and tasks that are of self-interest
  • Engages in planning, goal-setting, and decisions with minimal assistance, and manages personal time and responsibilities effectively
  • Demonstrates the ability to express and regulate emotions
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good citizenship

  • Identifies community members' characteristics and functions
  • Independently follows rules and routines and appropriate social behavior
  • Demonstrates respect for possessions, equipment, and materials belonging to self, others, and the classroom community
  • Demonstrates responsible behavior with minimal supervision

mindfulness

  • Demonstrates strong and stable attention skills
  • Demonstrates awareness of inner experience and ability to choose responses to challenging events
  • Demonstrates ability to cultivate positive emotions such as gratitude, joy, kindness, compassion, equanimity, and forgiveness
  • Can identify stressful situations and list strategies to manage stress

helpfulness

  • Is able to seek help from adults and identify support needed
  • Recognizes when others need help and assists without being asked
  • Can identify and implement a variety of ways to be helpful at home, in school, and in the community
  • relationships

integrity

  • Is able to define integrity and advocate for own beliefs
  • Consistently practices and values honesty with self and others
  • Demonstrates responsible behavior with minimal supervision
  • Is accountable and dependable for actions and words
  • Works to complete projects to own satisfaction based on personal standards of quality or completion ("good enough" or "finished")

compassion

  • Is able to recognize others' suffering and perceive when they need help
  • Demonstrates ability to be tolerant towards another person's feelings even when they create negative emotions
  • Demonstrates empathy towards others through imagining their feelings, speculating on where they come from, and why they might be different from their own
  • Expresses concern for the needs and suffering of others and is motivated to assist them
  • When confronted with someone else's suffering, is able to tolerate difficult emotions in themselves without becoming overwhelmed by them.

respect for self + others

  • Demonstrates self-respect by practicing self-care, valuing and appreciating themselves, and identifying and advocating for own needs, preferences, opinions, and limitations
  • Demonstrates respect for others by being sensitive to their feelings and well-being, as well as accepting and being supportive even when there are differences
  • Demonstrates respect for social norms
  • Demonstrates respect for classroom community and environment
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courage

  • Lists and employs strategies to overcome fears to take on new challenges
  • Demonstrates willingness to take on and persist with new challenges

positive attitude

  • Shows confidence in own abilities and independence
  • Demonstrates curiosity about and eagerness to experience new things
  • Demonstrates optimism
  • Demonstrates coping skills to bounce back from challenges and negative emotions

responsibility

  • Is able to take care of self and belongings independently
  • Is able to recognize and understand the impact that their actions have on others
  • Is able to keep promises and commitments given to others
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positive relationships

  • Engages with trusted adults as resources and to share mutual interests
  • Recognizes that others' feelings about a situation might be different from their own
  • Interacts cooperatively in groups of children
  • Maintains friendships for several months or more
  • Cooperates and shares ideas and materials in socially acceptable ways
  • Resolves social problems through negotiation and compromise
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self, family, community

  • Describes characteristics of self and others, and recognizes each person's uniqueness and importance
  • Identifies family members, family characteristics and functions
  • Demonstrates awareness of similarities and differences of own and others' cultures, including traditions, costumes, foods, and holidays

time + history

  • Demonstrates awareness of time by using time-related vocabulary and concepts
  • Demonstrates a basic awareness of history by understanding of past events, changes over time, and connections to the past

geography

  • Demonstrates basic geographic literacy by using geographic terminology and concepts correctly
  • Demonstrates knowledge of the various ways people communicate, travel, live, and work

civics

  • Demonstrates knowledge of rights and responsibilities of citizenship
  • Demonstrates knowledge of the role and importance of government

economics

  • Understands how people interact economically and the exchange of goods and services
  • Identifies people's basic needs and how they fulfill them, and understands the difference between needs and wants
  • Demonstrates knowledge of the concepts of scarcity and of saving

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