"I Can..." Statements

Social Emotional Skills:

1. Regulate my own emotions and behaviors [follows routines, takes care of my needs independently, responds calmly and use my words when problems arise or I need help].

2. Establish and sustain positive relationships [makes and keeps friends for a period of time, treats others kindly].

3. Participate cooperatively and constructively [successfully join a group to play, play cooperatively with others, share and take turns].

Physical Skills:

1. Move from place to place with control [walks, runs, skips, and gallops smoothly and with coordination, maneuvers around obstacles without falling].

2. Balance [stands on a each foot without holding on, walks forward and backward on low beam/line- stepping with one foot in front of the other].

3. Use gross (large) motor skills [kicks, throws, and catches balls with full range of motion and correct form].

4. Use fine (small) motor skills [holds writing tools with a tripod or modified tripod grasp, uses fingers to manipulate small toys and materials].

Language Skills:

1. Listen to and understand increasingly complex language [follows directions with multiple, un-related steps, responds appropriately to requests, comments, or questions].

2. Use language to express thoughts and needs [uses at least 4-6 word sentences, recalls things that happened at another time- using details, a logical order, and reflections about how they felt, will tell someone what they need].

3. Use appropriate conversational and other communication skills [takes turns talking, doesn’t interrupt whomever is speaking, asks and answers questions, uses appropriate volume for setting].

Cognitive Skills:

1. Demonstrate positive approaches to learning [persists when challenged, excited and curious to learn new things, motivated to work hard and do their best]. 

2. Remember and connect experiences [remembers rules/expectations and applies them to other settings, recalls something learned and applies it appropriately at another time].

3. Use classification skills [sorts objects by one attribute (ex. color) and then sorts them by another attribute (ex. wheels/no wheels), and can explain why].

4. Use symbols and images to represent something not present [ex. draws a map to the zoo or uses a block as a telephone].

Literacy Skills:

1. Demonstrate phonological awareness [generates a list of rhyming words and decides if two words rhyme; recognizes that words start with the same letter sound (alliteration) and can name the letter, determines the number of syllables in a given word].

2. Demonstrate knowledge of the alphabet [recognizes and names at least 11-20 uppercase and 11-20 lowercase letters and 5-10 letter sounds].

3. Demonstrate knowledge of print and its uses [recognizes that letters and words can be read and have meaning, orients books correctly and turns pages from front to back, understands that print in read left-to-right and top-to-bottom].

4. Comprehend and respond to books and other texts [answers questions about a story, identifies setting and characters, recognizes familiar books by their cover, points out title and knows role of author and illustrator].

5. Demonstrate emergent writing skills [writes name with first letter capitalized and the rest lowercase, writes words or sentences- uses inventive spelling- ex. BIRD – BRD].

Math Skills:

1. Use number concepts and operations [Counts to 10 (or more) correctly, counts with 1:1 correspondence (ex. one napkin for every person at the table), uses ordinal words (ex. first, second, etc.), connects a group of objects with the corresponding numeral (ex. 5 blocks paired with the number 5)]

2. Explore and describe spatial relationships and shapes [uses and understands terms such as near, far, top, bottom, under, on top of, below, above, beside, etc., identifies basic shapes (ex. square, circle, triangle, rectangle, oval, diamond/rhombus) and describes how they know what shape it is (ex. I know it’s a triangle because it has three sides and three corners)].

3. Compare and measure [uses non-standard units of measure (ex. I am 11 hands tall or the table is 7 books long), orders objects by an attribute (ex. largest to smallest or tallest to shortest)].

4. Demonstrate knowledge of patterns [creates repeating AB, ABC, or more complex patterns independently].