learning
objectives
for infants
Learning objectives are the standards by which we set expectations and guide a child’s growth and development towards readiness for the next step in their learning journey.
me + you
learning about my self and those around me
skills:
sense of self
self-competence
resilience
self-management
resilience
self-management
relationships
integrity
compassion
respect for self + others
compassion
respect for self + others
citizenship
good citizenship
mindfulness
helpful at school, home, community
mindfulness
helpful at school, home, community
leadership
courage
positive attitude
responsibility
positive attitude
responsibility
relationship building
positive relationships
global citizens — social studies
self, family + community
time + history
geography
civics
economics
time + history
geography
civics
economics
me + you
- learning objectives for infants
- sense of self
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
- citizenship
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
- relationships
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
- leadership
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
- relationship building
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
- global citizens
social studies
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"
brain power
learning how to think about the world around me
skills:
approaches to learning
learning strategies
reasoning + concept development
sorting
using symbols
using symbols
math
numbers
shapes + spacial relationships
comparison
patterns
shapes + spacial relationships
comparison
patterns
science
scientific method
living things
physical science
earth + space
living things
physical science
earth + space
technology
tech knowledge
engineering
design + building
brainpower
- learning objectives for infants
- approaches to learning
learning strategies
- Uses senses to explore the immediate environment
- Imitates others in using objects in new and/or unanticipated ways
- Recognizes familiar people, places, and objects; looks for hidden object where it was last seen
- Looks for familiar persons when they are named; relates objects to events
- Pays attention to sights and sounds
- reasoning + concept development
classification
- Matches similar objects
using symbols
- Uses symbols and images to represent something not present
- Recognizes people, objects, and animals in pictures or photographs
- Imitates actions of others during play; uses real objects as props
- math
numbers
- Explores or experiments with objects
- Uses words and/or gestures to request "more" in reference to food or play
- Observes printed numerals on pictures, books, or objects
shapes + spacial relationships
- Follows simple directions related to position (in, on, under, up, down)
- Explores objects with different shapes
comparison
- Shows awareness of consistent daily routines
patterns
- Shows interest in simple patterns in everyday life
- technology
tech knowledge
- Imitates others and uses body movements to explore and understand surroundings
- engineering
design + building
- Uses body to achieve objectives
- Begins to explore simple principles of engineering
- science
scientific method
- Engages in elements of the scientific process, including observation, using tools, and trying different things with objects
living things
- Shows curiosity about plants, animals, and other people in the environment
- Begins to understand that humans have needs that must be met to stay comfortable
physical science
- Shows interest and curiosity about objects in their immediate environment
- Demonstrates ability to move objects and explores motions to play with toys with adult support
- Demonstrates emerging awareness of cause and effect
- Is exposed to a variety of simple processes throughout the day
- Begins to explore concepts and vocabulary related to sound, light, and electricity
earth + space
- Explores and observes some of Earth's features, seasons, and weather
- Identifies familiar people and objects in their environment
- Points to objects in the sky
healthy me
developing a healthy body + learning to take care of myself
skills:
body awareness + motor development
traveling
balancing
gross-motor manipulation
fine-motor strength + coordination
balancing
gross-motor manipulation
fine-motor strength + coordination
healthy habits
learning healthy habits
safety
making good choices
safety
making good choices
healthy me
- learning objectives for infants
- body awareness + motor development
traveling
- Moves to explore immediate environment
balancing
- Balances while exploring immediate environment
gross-motor manipulation
- Reaches, grasps, and releases objects
fine-motor strength and coordination
- Reaches for, touches, and holds objects purposefully
- Grasps drawing and writing tools, jabbing at paper
- healthy habits
learning healthy habits
- Indicates needs and wants and demonstrates emerging participation in self-care needs
- Shows beginning food preferences
- Seeks help when not feeling well
- Begins to use simple strategies to self-calm
safety
- Demonstrates beginning ability to follow routines and react to alarms
- Shows preference for and trust in familiar caregivers
- Begins to follow adult interaction and guidance regarding safety
making good choices
- Demonstrates emerging ability to express emotion
- Begins to follow simple routines and prosocial behavior with adult support
- Repeats actions many times to cause a desired effect
word smart
learning to communicate in the world around me
skills:
listening
language
speaking
using language
conversation
conversation
prereading
phonetics
letters
print
narrative
letters
narrative
prewriting
writing
wordsmart
- learning objectives for infants
- listening
language
- Shows an interest in the speech of others
- Responds to simple verbal requests accompanied by gestures or voice
- speaking
using language
- Vocalizes and gestures to communicate
- Babbles strings of single consonant sounds and combines sounds
- Uses one- or two-word sentences or phrases
- Makes simple statements about recent events and familiar people and objects that are not present
conversation
- Engages in simple back-and-forth exchanges with others
- Responds to speech by looking toward the speaker; watches for signs of being understood when communicating
- prereading
phonetics
- Listens to simple nursery rhymes, songs, and chants
- Includes repetitive sounds in babbling
- Understands and uses one-word phrases
letters
- Demonstrates beginning sound awareness
- Makes a variety of sounds
- Shows interest in books
- Begins to interact with books and environmental print
narrative
- Shows interest in shared reading experiences and looking at books
- Shows preference for familiar stories
- prewriting
writing
- Makes scribbles or marks
imagine that
learning to express myself creatively
skills:
art
visual arts
music
musical expression
dance + movement
dancing
dramatic play
drama
imagine that
- learning objectives for infants
- art
visual art
- Participates in a variety of art and sensory experiences
- Responds to color in the environment
- Recognizes art in the environment
- music
musical expression
- Demonstrates an awareness of—and responds to—music in the environment
- Explores a wide variety of sounds
- Demonstrates an enjoyment of singing and songs
- dance + movement
dancing
- Responds to music with movement
- Explores activities related to movement
- dramatic play
drama
- Engages with a variety of dramatic play props in the environment
- Responds to theatrical performances in environment
- Demonstrates an increased variety of sound and movement to express self