Interaction with books, book knowledge, story structure, environmental print, telling and retelling of stories.

Stages of writing development, alphabet letters and sounds, print concepts, name recognition and production.

Oral comprehension, asking and answering questions, speech production, conversation, grammar, simple and complex sentences, sounds of language- rhyming and alliteration, vocabulary.

Rote counting, numeral recognition, ordinal terms, simple addition and subtraction with concrete models, mathematical concepts- more/less, geometry and spatial sense, common shapes, location words, measurement skills, quantity, seriation, sequence, pattern, sorting/matching, simple graphing, time concepts, cause and effect, problem-solving skills such as trial and error, experimentation.

Physical: texture, classification, investigation of properties, position and motion; Life sciences: investigation of plants and animals, life cycle; Earth & space: nature, weather, seasons.

Personal care and self-help skills, nutrition, healthy habits, safety, basic anatomy- body parts, organs; gross motor skills- running, jumping, hopping, marching, balance, coordinated movement, personal boundaries; fine motor- grasping, pinching, manipulating, hand-to-eye coordination.

Exploration and appreciation of art, creative work, self-expression; exploration and experimentation with music, singing, and dancing.

Imitation, role play, creation/recreation of story, dramatic play with objects (dramatic & sociodramatic play; levels of block play).

Social participation, solitary, parallel, associative and cooperative play, classroom routines, small and large group experiences, classroom responsibilities, empathy and helping behaviors, perspective of others, social problem-solving (levels of social play; classroom community; interactions with others).

Awareness and recognition of emotion in self and others, connections between feelings and behaviors, self-regulation of emotions and actions, attention span.