Self-Concept (SELF)

1. Identity of Self

Definition: Child shows increasing awareness that self is distinct from and also connected to others

2. Recognition of Own Skills and Accomplishments

Definition: Child evaluates and takes pleasure in own ability to perform skillfully

3. Self-Expression

Definition: Child explores own action, makes presence known in social situations, and outwardly expresses feelings to others

Social and Interpersonal Skills (SOC)

4. Expressions of Empathy

Definition: Child shows awareness of other’s feelings and responds to expressions of feelings by others in ways that are increasingly appropriate to the other person’s needs

5. Interactions with Adults

Definition: Child interacts effectively with both familiar and somewhat familiar adults

6. Relationships with Familiar Adults

Definition: Child forms close relationships or attachments with familiar adults

7. Developing Friendships

Child forms close relationships with specific peers, sharing experiences and activities

8. Building Cooperative Play with Other Children

Definition: Child interacts with other children through play that becomes increasingly cooperative and towards a shared purpose

9. Conflict Negotiation

Definition: Child learns how to understand the needs of other children and to negotiate constructively within the constraints of social rules and values

10. Awareness of Diversity

Definition: Child acknowledges and responds to similarities and differences between self and others, and learns to appreciate the value of each person in diverse communities

Self-Regulation (REG)

11. Impulse Control

Definition: Child develops strategies for regulating responses in increasingly socially appropriate ways

12. Seeking Other’s Help to Regulate Self

Definition: Child seeks assistance from other people to manage needs

13. Responsiveness to Other’s Support

Definition: Child is responsive to other’s assistance with self-regulation

14. Self-Comforting

Definition: Child comforts self in response to distress from either internal or external stimulation

15. Taking Turns

Definition: Child develops increased understanding of taking turns and begins to propose strategies for taking turns

Language (LANG)

16. Language Comprehension

Definition: Child receives, understands, and responds to oral language that uses increasingly complex words, phrases, and ideas

17. Responsiveness to Language

Definition: Child understands and responds to increasingly complex directions and requests

18. Expresses Self Through Language

Definition: Child uses language to communicate with increasingly complex words and sentences

19. Uses Language in Conversation

Definition: Child engages in increasingly extended conversations following the appropriate 
social use of language

Learning (LRN)

20. Curiosity and Initiative

Definition: Child pursues knowledge or understanding of new materials or activities

21. Attention Maintenance and Persistence

Definition: Child persists in attending, mastering, and understanding an activity of his/her choice in the face of difficulty or challenge

Cognitive Competence (COG)

22. Memory

Definition: Child stores, retrieves, and uses information about both familiar and unfamiliar events, past experiences, people, and things

23. Cause and Effect

Definition: Child shows understanding of the connection between cause and effect

24. Engages in Problem-Solving

Definition: Child shows increasing ability to reason logically or use strategies to solve challenging problems

25. Object and Pretend Play

Definition: Child uses objects to represent other objects or ideas

Math (MATH)

26. Number Sense: Understands Quantity and Counting

Definition: Child uses number names to represent quantities and counts increasingly larger sets of objects

27. Number Sense: Math Operations

Definition: Child shows increasing ability to add and subtract small quantities of objects

28. Number Sense: Comparison of Quantity

Definition: Child compares and orders simple quantities

29. Shapes

Definition: Child shows increasing knowledge of shapes and their characteristics

30. Time

Definition: Child shows understanding of the time sequence of routines and events and uses time-related vocabulary

31. Classification and Matching

Definition: Child shows increasing ability to compare, match, and sort objects into groups according to some common attribute

32. Measurement

Definition: Child shows increasing understanding of measurable properties such as length, weight, and capacity and begins to quantify those properties

33. Patterning

Definition: Child shows increasing ability to recognize, reproduce, and create patterns of varying complexity

Literacy (LIT)

34. Interest in Literacy

Definition: Child shows interest in books, songs, rhymes, stories, writing, and other literacy activities and seeks information in written text

35. Concepts of Print

Definition: Child shows increasing understanding of the conventions and physical organization of
 printed material and that print carries meaning

36. Letter and Word Knowledge

Definition: Child shows increasing awareness of symbols, letters, and words in the environment, and their relationship to sound

37. Phonological Awareness

Definition: Child shows awareness of sounds that make up language, including the segmentation of sounds in words, and recognition of word rhyming and alliteration

38. Emerging Writing

Definition: Child shows increasing ability to write using scribbles, symbols, letters, and words to represent meaning

39. Comprehension of Text

Definition: Child identifies details or story sequence in age appropriate text

Motor Skills (MOT)

40. Movement

Definition: Child refines the ability to move in a coordinated way using large muscles (e.g., arms and legs)

41. Balance

Definition: Child refines the ability to balance self in space

42. Grasp/Release and Manipulation

Definition: Child uses hands to grasp, release, and manipulate objects

43. Eye-Hand Coordination

Definition: Child uses eyes and hands together to perform or accomplish a task

Safety and Health (SH)

44. Personal Care Routines: Toileting and Hygiene

Definition: Child responds to and initiates toileting and hygiene routines that support healthy growth and help prevent the spread of infection

45. Children are safe and healthy

Definition: Child refines ability to dress him or herself independently

46. Personal Care Routines: Self-Feeding

Definition: Child refines ability to feed him or herself independently

47. Personal Safety

Definition: Child shows awareness of safety practices that minimize risk and support healthy growth

48. Understanding Healthy Lifestyle: Eating and Nutrition

Definition: Child shows awareness of eating habits that support healthy growth