Social Skills Behaviors

Throughout our preschool year, we give the children many opportunities to practice and grow in their social skills. Specifically, we look for growth in the following behaviors, though the children won’t reach their full social potential for many years:

Cooperation

• Working together in our play and explorations

Assertion

• Clearly and verbally asking for what we need; standing up for ourselves and our work

Responsibility

• Cleans up materials when finished, both on our own and with our class at clean up time

Empathy

• Helps others if they need it; kindness towards our friends

Self-Control

• Appropriately expressing our wants, needs and emotions; recognizing when we need to express these