Language Development

• Understand own name and others' names 
• Give answers to questions
• Identify common objects and familiar people
• Name some familiar objects
• Pronounce most words correctly 
• Express own needs and wants
• Repeat a few simple finger plays
• Relate a simple story

Reading Readiness 

• Tell what is happening in a simple picture
• Retell a part of a familiar story
• Listen to short stories and puppet shows
• Recognize letters and numbers

Science

• Show empathy for animals
• Help plant and maintain simple plants
• Identify some textures 
• Identify some foods according to taste
• Learn about some insects
• Give simple descriptions of the weather

Emotional Development

• Assist with dressing themselves
• Care for some physical needs with supervision
• Follow basic daily routines
• Help in putting toys and equipment away
• Play alone and in small groups
• Exhibit emotional self control suitable for developmental level

Social Development

• Share in a small group some of the time
• Identify family members
• Cooperate most of the time
• Learn about some adult roles (parents,family members,teachers, police, firefighters)

Physical Development

• Perform simple loco motor tasks, including walking forward and backward, running and jumping
• Perform somersaults with assistance
• Manipulate large toys and wheeled equipment
• Use some of the playground equipment
• Participate in simple group games  
• Construct simple block structures
• Stacking
• Age appropriate puzzle
• Use crayons 
• Practice turning book pages one at a time
• Feed self using spoon and tumbler
• Begin to participate in simple group games

Cognitive Development

• Use words "big" and "little"
• Follow at least one direction
• Recognize and name colors
• Identify familiar sounds
• Identify major body parts on own body
• Name some familiar animals and the sounds they make
• Identify a missing part of an object in a picture 
• Identify functions of some familiar objects according to their use

Premath Skills

• Use simple number songs, rhymes and finger plays
• Indicate age in numbers of fingers and verbally
• Rote counting
• Sort shapes

Art & Music

• Use art materials including crayons, markers, paints and play dough
• Use paste
• Use various art techniques with supervision, including collage and painting
• Listen to music
• Participate in simple singing games and songs
• Use rhythm instruments
• March to music