Learning Beyond Paper

Children will coordinate the use of large muscles to perform more complex tasks as they pass a large ball to a peer.

Children will, with minimal verbal prompting, practice active listening skills such as turning their body towards the speaker, remaining focused on the speaker, and holding thoughts/questions until the speaker is finished.

Children will demonstrate through conversations and play an understanding that the sun, moon and stars are always in the sky even if they can’t be seen while exploring the effect of sunlight on starlight through simulation.

Children will use a combination of large muscles in the arms, hands, legs, and feet while using playground balls to throw underhand, kick, and/or bounce and catch.

Children will use theirsenses to observe and explore in-depth materials provided by an adult as they look at water levels and lift bottles of water to predict their weight before putting them on a scale.

Children will, with minimal verbal prompting, participate in a simple experiment using fruit to test whether it will sink or float.

Children will begin to engage in multiple back and forth communicative interaction with adults and peers while discussing their morning rituals.

Children will demonstrate balance, coordination and endurance and build muscle strength and flexibility as they participate in a shape jump game.

Children will use recently learned vocabulary during a group discussion about sending love waves.

Children will create a set equal to a given set (up to 5) with verbal prompting and encouragement while helping to set a table for 4.

Children will recognize and name uppercase and lowercase Ii as they use their bodies to form the letter.

Children will recognize and name the letter Ii and begin to understand that letters represent letter sounds, with prompting and support.

Children will draw pictures and use writing approximations to describe the weather outside, adding details to drawings to convey ideas, actions, or objects more accurately.

Children will trace or write some letters of the alphabet with accuracy.

Children will use a combination of large muscles in the arms, hands, legs and feet while riding a tricycle to move through an increasingly more complex obstacle course created by adults or peers.

Children will show increasing accuracy while moving their fingers from le to right and using a "return sweep" to move to the next line of text when pretending to read.

Children will draw pictures and use writing approximations to describe their favorite healthy foods, adding details to drawings to convey ideas, actions, or objects more accurately.

Children will utilize classroom materials to investigate water in the frozen state.

Children will recognize and name the letter Hh and begin to understand that letters represent letter sounds, with prompting and support.

Children will coordinate the use of hands and fingers to slide, pick up, place, drop, set down one rubber band at a time with accuracy as they use musical instruments to express creativity.