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Rooms
Diverse Learning Environments
Infants
Below are goals that our teachers work on with the infants:
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Use adult support to calm self
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Uses trusted adult as a secure base from which to explore the world
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Moves to explore immediate environment
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Reaches, grasps, releases objects
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Responds to simple verbal requests accompanied by gestures/tone of voice
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Babbles strings of single consonant sounds and combines sounds
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Plays near or with other peers
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Balances while exploring immediate environment
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Reacts to a problem and seeks to achieve a goal
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Making connections with adults and peers
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Toddlers
Below are goals that our teachers work on with our toddlers:
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Use adult support to calm self
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Comfort self by seeking out special object or person
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Experiments with different ways of moving
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Follows simple requests not accompanied by gestures
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Names familiar people, animals, and objects
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Observes and explores things in the environment
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Joins in Rhyming songs and games
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Verbally counts
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Listens to songs/books about how living things grow and change
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Responds to emotional cues and responds to emotional expressions
Preschool
Below are goals that our teachers work on with the pre-school children:
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Accepts re-direction from adults
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Demonstrates confidence in meeting own needs
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Sustains balance during simple movement experiences
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Notices and discriminates rhyme
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Applies phonic concepts and knowledge of word structure to text
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Verbally counts to 10, counts up to five objects accurately, using number name for each object
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Uses scientific inquiry
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Makes comparisons and classifies objects
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Demonstrates knowledge about self
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Responds to emotional cues
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Makes friends
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Observes and imitates how other people solve problems; asks for solutions and uses it
Pre-K
Below are goals that our teachers work on with the pre-kindergarten children:
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Manage Feelings and able to look at a situation differently or delay gratification
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Manage classroom rules, routines, and transitions with occasional reminders
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Moves purposefully from place to place with control
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Use an expanding expressive vocabulary
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Plans and pursues a variety of challenging skills
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Pretends to read, using some of the language from text; describes actions across pages
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Verbally counts to 20; counts 10-20 objects accurately; tells what number (1-10) comes next in order by counting
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Identifies problems, makes predictions, thinks of ways to solve problems and tries possible solutions
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Shows awareness of life in different environments
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Uses refined wrist and finger movements; holds drawing and writing tools by using a three-point finger grip
