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