Teachers will ask questions to encourage critical thinking, predicting, and creativity.
What are open-ended questions?
100
Infants and toddlers show emotional connection and attachment to familiar adults and preschool age children interact readily with trusted adults.
What is relationships with adults?
100
Child engages in conversations with others that are maintained by back-and-forth exchanges of ideas or information.
What is communication?
100
Child makes simple predictions about what will happen next, such as in a story or in everyday routines.
What is discovery?
100
Explores environments in ways such as throwing, kicking, jumping, climbing, carrying, and running.
What are gross motor skills?
200
Teachers offer opportunities for children to show willingness and capability to work independently for increasing amounts of time.
What is "choice time"?
200
Infants and toddlers between the ages of 8 months and 18 months participate in simple imitation games, such as making similar sounds or running after another child. They play next to other children with similar toys or materials.
What is relationships with other children?
200
Child shows understanding of the meaning of common words used in daily activities.
What is vocabulary?
200
Child recalls a similar family event when hearing a story read.
What is memory?
200
Child coordinates hand and eye movements to carry out tasks, such as working on puzzles or stringing beads together.
What is fine motor development?
300
Children use objects or materials to represent something else during play, such as using a paper plate or Frisbee as a steering wheel.
What is pretend or imaginative play?
300
Children express a variety of emotions and recognize feelings and emotions of others.
What is emotional functioning?
300
Child shows an ability to recall (in order) multiple step directions.
What is attending and understanding?
300
Child correctly follows directions involving their own position in space, such as "Stand up" and "Move forward".
What is spatial sense?
300
Children identify a variety of healthy and unhealthy foods.
What is nutrition?
400
Expresses emotions in ways that are appropriate to the situation.
What is self-regulation?
400
Child identifies self as being a part of different groups, such as family, community, culture, or preschool.
What is sense of belonging?
400
Child shows rapid growth in the number of words or signs used in conversation with others.
What is vocabulary?
400
Child uses comparative language, such a shortest, heavier, or biggest.
What is measurement?
400
Combines information gained through the senses to understand objects, experiences, and interactions.
What is perception?
500
Child persists in learning new skills or solving problems.
What is executive functioning?
500
Child shows awareness of self, including own body, abilities, thoughts, and feelings and/or uses positive words to describe self such as kind or hard-worker.
What is sense of identity?
500
Child provides a summary of a story, highlighting a number of the key ideas in the story and how they relate.
What is comprehension?
500
Child sorts toys or other objects by color, shape or size.
What is mathematical thinking?
500
Children use hand tools in a variety of ways, such as a rolling pin with clay or play dough, or a toy shovel with sand.