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