 Preschool Program Goals
Creative Representation
Recognizing objects by sight, sound, touch, taste and smell
Imitating actions and sounds
Relating models, pictures, and photographs to real places and things
Pretending and role playing
Making models out of clay, blocks, and other materials
Drawing and painting
Language and Literacy
Talking with others about personally meaningful experiences
Describing objects, events and relations
Having fun with language: listening to stories and poems, making up stories and poems, making up stories and rhymes
Writing in various ways: drawing, scribbling, letterlike forms, invented spelling, conventional forms
Reading in various ways: reading storybooks, signs and symbols, one's own writing
Dictating stories
Initiative and Social Relations
Making and expressing choices, plans and decisions
Solving problems encountered in play
Taking care of one's own needs
Expressing feelings in words
Participating in group routines
Being sensitive to feeings, interests and needs of others
Building relationships with children and adults
Creating and experiencing collaborative play
Dealing with social conflict
Movement
Moving in nonlocomotor ways (anchored movement: bending, twisting, rocking, swinging one's arms)
Moving in locomotor ways (nonanchored movement: running, jumping, hopping, skipping, marching, climbing)
Moving with objects
Expressing creativity in movement
Describing movement
Acting upon movement directions
Feeling and expressing steady beat
Moving in sequences to a common beat
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Music
Moving to music
Exploring and identifying sounds
Exploring the singing voice
Singing songs
Playing simple musical instruments
Classification
Exploring and describing similarities, differences, and the atrributes of things
Distinguishing and describing shapes
Sorting and matching
Using and describing something in several ways
Holding more than one attribute in mind at a time
Distinguishing between "some" and "all"
Describing characteristics something does not possess or what class it does not belong to
Seriation
Compare attributes (longer/shorter, bigger/smaller)
Arranging several things one after another in a series or pattern and describing the relationships (big/bigger/biggest, red/blue/red/blue)
Fitting one ordered set of objects to another through trial and error (small cup-small saucer/medium cup-medium saucer/big cup-big saucer)
Number
Comparing the number of things in two sets to determine "more", "fewer", "same number"
Arranging two sets objects in one-to-one correspondence
Counting objects
Space
Filling and emptying
Fitting things together and taking them apart
Changing the shape and arrangement of objects (wrapping, twisting, stretching, stacking, enclosing)
Observing people, places, and things from different spatial viewpoints
Experiencing and describing positions, directions, and distances in the play space, building, and neighborhood
Interpreting spatial relations in drawings, pictures, and photographs
Time
Starting and stopping an action on signal
Experiencing and describing rates of movement
Anticipating, remembering, and describing sequences of events
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