Goals for Toddlers
Social and Emotional Skills
✔ Begins to identify and show basic feelings such as happy, sad, mad, scared
✔ Shows concern for friends
✔ Accepts and responds to teacher’s suggestions and guidance
✔ Begins to enjoy the company of other friends
✔ Begins to show interest in group activities
✔ Begins to show increasing independence with play
Fine Motor Skills
✔ Begins coloring with crayons
✔ Paints with large paint brush
✔ Begins playing with play dough
✔ Uses fingers to grasp small objects
✔ Begins building a towers with large blocks
Language Skills
✔ Begins to communicate wants and needs and sometimes verbalizing wants and needs
✔ Listens to simple stories quietly
✔ Points to object or picture when it’s named for him/her
✔ Recognizes names of familiar people, objects, and body parts
✔ Begins to use 2 word sentences
✔ Follows a simple direction “Sit in your chair”
✔ Can identify some animals and the sounds they make
Self Reliance Skills
✔ Able to answer to own name and begins to say own name
✔ Begins pointing to and identifying basic body parts such as eyes, ears, nose, mouth
✔ Assists with putting toys and supplies away
✔ Sits in a chair unassisted
✔ Begins feeding self with spoon unassisted
✔ Assists in undressing/ dressing self
Gross Motor Skills
✔ Throws a large ball forward
✔ Enjoys climbing
✔ Jumps on two feet in place
✔ Kicks a ball forward
✔ Begins to run
Cognitive Skills
✔ Begins to notice and name different shapes
✔ Explores basic physical properties (hard, soft, hot, cold, wet, and dry)
✔ Identifies some colors
✔ Begins counting to 10
✔ Shows an interest in reciting or singing ABC’s
✔ Recognizes and sometimes repeats basic nursery rhymes
✔ Shows interests in songs
✔ Recognizes a schedule of events