Goals for Preschoolers (4-5)
Social and Emotional Skills
✔ Respects and shows concern for friends
✔ Accepts and responds to teacher’s suggestions and authority
✔ Plays cooperatively with others
✔ Resolves conflicts appropriately through use of words
✔ Participates and attends to activities such as circle time and learning activities for a longer period of time
✔ Shows empathy towards other children
✔ Demonstrates confidence and pride in self
✔ Seeks to solve problems using problem solving skills
Fine Motor Skills
✔ Independently strings small beads
✔ Independently puts together 10+ piece puzzles
✔ Appropriately uses scissors with control to cut along straight and curved lines
✔ Uses crayons with control and mature grip
✔ Draws a human figure with body parts
✔ Begins to write first and last name using appropriate capitalization (“John Smith”)
✔ Ability to feed self independently using utensils
Language Skills
Listening
✔ Listens quietly to stories read aloud with lengthening attention span
✔ Follows a sequence of three simple directions
✔ Responds to a story by recalling basic details and answering questions
✔ Identifies the main idea of pictures and stories
✔ Predicts what will happen next in a story
✔ Retells the main events in a story
Speaking
✔ Speaks clearly and fluently
✔ Verbalizes wants and needs
✔ Effectively communicates in complete sentences
✔ Waits for turn speaking during group activities such as circle time
✔ Contributes to group discussions
✔ Uses expanding vocabulary
Literacy
✔ Is aware of environmental print such as names of friends, center signs, etc
✔ Identifies the parts of a book such as cover, title, back of the book, spine of the book etc
✔ Recognizes and uses left to bottom progression
✔ Recognizes and uses top to bottom progression
✔ Identifies and produces rhyming words
✔ Identifies likenesses and differences
✔ Identifies upper and lower case letters
✔ Identifies letter sounds
Self Reliance Skills
✔ Able to identify own name, gender, and age, and birthday
✔ Recognizes, names, and points to body parts such as head, face parts, chin, arms, hands, legs, knees, feet, etc
✔ Independently puts toys and supplies away
✔ Independently displays 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
✔ Independently follows classroom routines
✔ Works when appropriate on given tasks
✔ Works cooperatively in small groups
✔ Seeks only fair share of teachers’ attention
✔ Works neatly
Gross Motor Skills
✔ Throws and catches a ball
✔ Jumps on two feet in place
✔ Hops from one foot to the other
✔ Kicks a ball forward
Math Skills
✔ Rote counts to 30
✔ Identifies numbers 1-30
✔ Uses 1:1 correspondence of objects to 10
✔ Orders numerals in sequence 0-9
✔ Identifies and draws shapes such as circle, triangle, square, rectangle, oval, heart, rhombus (diamond)
✔ Produces a simple pattern of objects
✔ Categorizes objects by shapes, colors, sizes, textures
✔ Knows opposite words (hot/cold)
✔ Knows directional and positional words (up/down)
✔ Applies the concept of more than, less than, equal and not equal
✔ Adds and subtracts up to 10 objects
✔ Names/recognizes penny, nickel, dime, quarter, dollar
✔ Recognizes concepts of calendar time using appropriate vocabulary (days of the week, months of the year
Science/Health Skills
✔ Makes predictions before experiments
✔ Collects data and records results using graphs or lists
✔ Seeks information through observation and exploration
✔ Identifies and uses 5 senses (when appropriate) during exploration
✔ Observes and describes properties of different kinds of objects and how they are used (clay, wood, cloth, paper, etc)
Social Studies Skills
✔ Identifies similarities and differences in people
✔ Begins to understand how people rely on others for goods and services
✔ Identifies and describes the jobs of various “helpers” in the community
✔ Explores the use of technology and how the use of technology affects life
✔ Understands basic rules, how to follow them, and why rules are important and necessary
✔ Begins to understand what it means to be a leader
✔ Recognizes and understands the concept of change in various settings
✔ Understands the meaning of celebrated holidays and special days in the community