All About Me / Rules & Expectations

• • We can learn about what makes us special and learn about other groups of people too. 
  • We can understand what makes us special and unique.
  • We can understand our feelings.
  • We can learn to control our emotions and actions.
  • We can learn to understand and care about other people's feelings.
  • We can build trust and good relationships with adults.
  • We can learn how to get along with friends.
  • We can learn ways to solve problems with our friends.
  • We can learn about the rules and jobs we have when we are in a group.
  • We can learn how to take care of things in our classroom.
  • We can use our senses to move around and interact with things and people.
  • Problem Solving and Reasoning: We can figure out how to solve problems by thinking of different ideas.

Fall

• We can understand and follow safety rules.
• We can recognize different shapes and their characteristics.
• We can sort things into groups.
• Emergent Writing: We can write and draw with the special three-finger grip.

Exercise/Food/ Thanksgiving

• We can learn about our bodies and how they work.
•  We can take care of ourselves and our personal hygiene.
•  We can eat healthy foods.
•  We can understand the importance of good sleep and rest.
•  We can exercise and understand why it is good for us.
• We can move in different ways, like jumping, running, and skipping.
• We can understand and create patterns.

Winter / Shadows

• We can explore and learn about objects and things happening around us.
• Number Sense: We can recognize and name written numbers.
• Number Sense: We can match one thing to one number.
• Number Sense: We can count numbers in order.

Community Helpers

• We can understand how numbers relate to each other and do simple math (adding and subtracting)
• Phonological Awareness: We can notice syllables in words.
• Symbolic Thought: We can use our imagination to think about symbols and ideas.

Transportation

• We can use measurement to compare and talk about objects.

Spring/ Weather/ Rhyming

• We can understand the difference between things we want and things we need.
• We can understand how one thing can cause another thing to happen.  
• Phonological Awareness: We can understand rhymes.

Authors/ Kindergarten

• Emergent Writing: We can understand that writing has a message and we can explain our writing to others. 
• Print Awareness: We can understand that books are read from top to bottom and left to right.
• Phonological Awareness: We can hear the first sounds in words.
• Language & Communication: We can learn new words and their meanings.
• Print Awareness: We can learn about the alphabet.

Social and Emotional Development

• We can identify emotions 
• We can show our emotions in a respectful way 
• We can learn our routine and prepare for changes
• We can be patient
• We can understand that our behavior (good or bad) will have rewards or consequences 
• We can be proud of our work
• We can show teachers that we care
• We can have a conversation with a teacher  
• We can play and work together with our friends
• We can show empathy when something bad happens to someone else 
• We can be respectful to other living things 
• We can feel comfortable with grownups that we know

Approaches Toward Learning

• We can try new things
• We can follow directions on our own
• We can use what we already know when we are learning 
• We can keep our attention on what we are doing 
• We can try again and again to get something right 
• We can be creative with objects and materials 
• We can pretend and come up with new ideas 
• We can pretend play
• We can show people what we know in different ways 
• We can tell others that we like their work 

Language and Literacy

• We can understand long sentences 
• We can ask what a new word means
• We can follow two-step directions 
• We can talk to others to share and learn information  
• We can talk so that others understand us
• We can talk about and describe things we know 
• We can use pictures to add details to descriptions
• We can use the correct words in a sentence 
• We can make real-life connections between words and their use
• We can listen to others and wait our turn to talk 
• We can have a conversation with a friend 
• We can listen to books being read aloud 
• We can listen and participate in story time
• We can join in and read poems and rhymes 
• We can hold and use a book the right way 
• We can understand words
• We can add details to our pictures
• We can figure out what a new word means with the help of a book 
• We can understand that words tell you something