4-Year-Old Goals

Social-Emotional Development

Children will take greater initiative and participate in more reciprocal interactions with peers.
Children will play cooperatively with peers, engaging in extended interactions during learning and play activities.
Children will negotiate with peers and use communication to resolve conflicts, seeking adult assistance when needed.
Children will demonstrate a preference for playing with peers over solitary play and will engage in group activities.
Children will show curiosity and eagerness to try new activities and experiences.
Children will express their likes and dislikes and demonstrate growing confidence in their abilities.
Children will seek help from adults when needed and begin to solve problems independently.

Children will use an increasing variety of words and sentence structures to communicate their thoughts, needs, and experiences.
Children will engage in increasingly complex back-and-forth conversations with adults and peers.
Children will recall details from familiar stories and retell simple narratives with a beginning, middle, and end.
Children will sing songs, recite rhymes, and engage in wordplay to develop phonological awareness.
Children will state their first and last names and begin to recognize it in print.

Children will recognize and name their first and last names in print.
Children will write their first name nearly correctly using recognizable letters.
Children will recognize and name most uppercase letters and approximately half of the lowercase letters.
Children will identify and produce sounds associated with several letters.
Children will identify rhyming words and participate in simple wordplay activities.
Children will predict what will happen next in a story based on illustrations and prior knowledge.

Children will recognize and name all written numerals through 10 and begin identifying numbers up to 20.
Children will count ten objects or more using one-to-one correspondence.
Children will compare two groups of objects by counting and using terms such as “more,” “same,” “less,” or “fewer”.
Children will sort and classify objects by one or more attributes (such as color, shape, or size) into two or more groups.
Children will draw and identify common shapes, including circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles.

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