Goals for Preschool (3 years old)
Social and Emotional Skills
✔ Respects and shows concern for friends
✔ Accepts and responds to teacher’s suggestions and authority
✔ Begins to play cooperatively with others
✔ Begins to resolve conflicts appropriately through use of words
✔ Participates and attends to activities such as circle time and learning activities for a longer period of time
Fine Motor Skills
✔ Independently strings four ½ inch beads
✔ Independently puts together 6-7 piece puzzles
✔ Begins cutting with scissors
✔ Begins coloring with crayons with increasing control
✔ Begins using proper grip of crayon- uses fingers versus fist
✔ Draws a combination of simple shapes such as a house or person
✔ Begins to write first name in capital letters
Language Skills
Listening
✔ Listens quietly to stories read aloud
✔ Begins to follow a sequence of three simple directions
✔ Responds to a story by recalling basic details
Speaking
✔ Verbalizes wants and needs
✔ Effectively communicates in 5-6 word sentences
✔ Begins taking turns speaking during group activities such as circle time
✔ Correctly uses pronouns such as I, you, me, he, and she
✔ Shows an increase in vocabulary
Literacy
✔ Recognizes letters and some sounds
✔ Shows an increasing awareness of environmental print such as names of friends, center signs, etc
✔ Begins to identify the parts of a book such as cover, title, back of the book, spine of the book etc
✔ Understands directional and positional words such as in, out, over, under, on, off, top, bottom, in front of, in back of
✔ Identifies opposites such as up/down; open/closed; stop/go; happy/sad; slow/fast; hot/cold
✔ Recognizes own name and identifies letters in own name
Self Reliance Skills
✔ Able to identify own name, sex, and age
✔ Able to point to six body parts when named
✔ Names body parts such as head, face parts, chin, arms, hands, legs, knees, feet, etc
✔ Assists with putting toys and supplies away
✔ Begins becoming independent with self-help skills such as toileting, hand washing, putting on shoes and coat and zipping
✔ Follows directions
✔ Uses work materials properly as well as cleans when finished
✔ Begins to follow classroom routines independently
✔ Begins to work on tasks independently
✔ Begins working cooperatively in small groups
Gross Motor Skills
✔ Throws and catches a large ball
✔ Jumps on two feet in place
✔ Hops from one foot to the other
✔ Kicks a ball forward
Math and Science Skills
✔ Names and identifies basic shapes such as circle, triangle, square, and rectangle
✔ Identifies basic colors
✔ Sorts objects according to basic colors
✔ Rote counts to 20
✔ Identifies numbers 1-20
✔ Uses 1:1 correspondence of objects to 5
✔ Identifies number of objects without counting (up to five objects)
✔ Begins to recognize simple patterns
✔ Begins to understand and sort according to physical properties such as hard, soft, hot, cold, wet and dry
✔ Begins to compare and contrast according to physical properties
✔ Begins to observe and describe characteristics of living things
Social Studies Skills
✔ Begins to recognize similarities and differences in people
✔ Explores how people rely on others for goods and services
✔ Explores various “helpers” in the community
✔ Explores the use of technology
✔ Understands basic rules and how to follow them
✔ Explores celebrated holidays and special days in the community