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
citizenship
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
relationships
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
leadership
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
relationship building
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
global citizens social studies
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