Goals for 2-3 year olds
Social and Emotional Skills
✔ Identifies basic feelings such as happy, mad, sad, scared, etc.
✔ Shows concern for friends
✔ Accepts and responds to teacher’s suggestions and authority
✔ Enjoys company of friends
✔ Begins engaging in cooperative play
✔ Shows interest in group activities
✔ Show increasing independence with activities when appropriate
Self Reliance Skills
✔ Able to identify name, age, sex
✔ Able to identify basic body parts
✔ Shows increasing independence with putting toys and supplies away
✔ Becomes independent with using the bathroom, putting on coat, shoes, etc.
Language Skills
Listening
✔ Listens quietly to stories read aloud
✔ Begins to follow a sequence of 2-3 simple directions
✔ Responds to a story by recalling basic details
Speaking
✔ Verbalizes wants and needs
✔ Effectively communicates using longer more complete sentences
✔ Begins taking turns speaking during group activities such as circle time
✔ Begins using pronouns such as I, you, me, he, and she
✔ Shows an increase in vocabulary
Literacy
✔ Begins showing an increasing awareness of environmental print such as names of friends, center signs, etc
✔ Shows an interest in books and understanding that books can be read
✔ Begins exploring directional and positional words such as in, out, over, under, on, off, top, bottom, in front of, in back of
✔ Begins exploring opposites such as up/down; open/closed; stop/go; happy/sad; slow/fast; hot/cold
✔ Recites ABC’s and begins recognizing some letters and sounds
✔ Begins identifying letters in own name
Fine Motor Skills
✔ Begins coloring with crayons
✔ Paints with large paint brush
✔ Plays with play dough
✔ Draws a horizontal and begins a circle
✔ Applies glue
✔ Strings large beads
✔ Builds a tower of four or more blocks
✔ Begins exploring with scissors
Gross Motor Skills
✔ Throws a large ball forward and begins catching a large ball
✔ Jumps on two feet in place
✔ Kicks a ball forward
✔ Hops on one foot
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 10
✔ Identifies numbers 1-10
✔ Begins to display 1:1 correspondence
✔ Identifies number of objects without counting (up to three objects)
✔ Explores creating patterns
✔ Begins to understand basic 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
✔ Names family members
✔ Begins to recognize similarities and differences in people
✔ Explores how people rely on others for goods and services
✔ Explores various “helpers” in the community
✔ Learns basic rules and how to follow them
✔ Explores celebrated holidays and special days in the community