Helps children work through life's challenges and problems.

Teaches valuable lessons about right and wrong.

At first children play alone but gradually learn to play together.

Activities such as running, climbing, jumping rope, and riding a bicycle help the large muscles of the back, arms, and legs develop. Making jigsaw puzzles, finger painting, and stringing beads all help a child to learn control the small muscles of the hands.

Promotes mental development.

Teaches children a combination of language, art, math, fine motor, science, and social skills.

Teaches children observing, exploring, measuring, comparing, classifying, predicting, and discovering concepts.

Teaches children how to express ideas, experiment, explore, create and develop independence through use of a variety of materials.

Teaches children that stories follow a sequence and words on a page have meaning, letter recognition, and vocabulary concepts.

Teaches children counting, classification, color, shape, size, numeral identification, space, and volume concepts.

Occurs between 3 and 4 years of age. Children draw ovals, rectangles, and circles. They have more control over their movements and better hand-eye coordination which allows them to control the size and shape of a line.

Occurs between 4 and 5 years of age. Children begin to create symbols of objects and events they know.

Occurs between 15 months and 3 years of age. Children do not make the connection between the marks on the paper and their own movement.

The simplest form of direct observation that is a brief narrative account of a specific incident.

Are designed to record the presence or absence of specific traits or behaviors.

Can be developed to gain information on specific aspects of children's behavior.

Used to record the degree to which a quality or trait is present.

Follow simple one, two, and three step directions.

Verbally recite numbers from 1 to 10.

Use writing and drawing tools with some control.

Develop positive relationships with peers.

Identify similarities and differences.

Discriminates and labels sounds, odors, and textures.

Matches colors.

Listens attentively to short story in small group.

Plays cooperatively in small groups.

Hugo told me he wanted his mom.

Eduardo was very quiet today.

Mia drew a beautiful picture of her family.

Lucy drew a picture of her family using the purple marker.

Valeria helped me sort manipulatives. She picked them up from the table and put them in the proper containers.

Ana began to cry and put her head down when it was time to go.

Nicole was crying because she did not want to leave school.

Jacob was sad the first day because he did not want to stay at school.

When the students left at the end of the period, Hugo began to cry.

When Ariel was shown a green bead, she said green. She also stated the correct colors when she was shown a blue and yellow bead.

Aaliyah and Allison used their arms to roll the hula hoops down the hallway.

Abraham was excited to see Mrs. Sova and Ms. Foley.

Jasmine smiled when I told her she was doing well on her puzzle.

Brian liked the popcorn he had for snack on Tuesday.