Learning Box Preschool Curriculum Alignment with The California Preschool Learning Foundations Volume 1
Social Emotional Development
Self
1.0 Self Awareness
48 Month-1.1 Describe their physical characteristics, behavior, and abilities positively.
60 Month-1.1 Compare their characteristics with those of others and display a growing awareness of their psychological characteristics, such as thoughts and feelings.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SE 1.1 Aware of thoughts, needs, and feelings of self and others
SE 1.2 Demonstrates confidence
2.0 Self-Regulation
2.1 Need adult guidance in managing their attention, feelings, and impulses and show some effort at self- control.
2.1 Regulate their attention, thought feelings, and impulses more contently, although adult guidance is sometimes necessary.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SE 3.1 Maintains Focus
SE 3.2 Shows flexibility within routines
SE 3.3 Cooperates within shared space
3.0 Social and Emotional Understanding
3.1 Seek to understand people’s feelings and behavior, notice diversity in human characteristics, and are interested in how people are similar and different.
3.1 Begin to comprehend the mental and psychological reasons people act as they do and how they contribute to differences between people.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SE 1.1 Aware of thoughts, needs, and feelings of self and others
SE 2.3 Shows empathy for others
4.0 Empathy and Caring
4.1 Demonstrate concern for the needs of others and people in distress.
4.1 Respond to another’s distress and needs with sympathetic caring and are more likely to assist.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SE 1.1 Aware of thoughts, needs, and feelings of self and others
SE 2.3 Shows empathy for others
5.0 Initiative in Learning
5.1 Enjoy learning and are confident in their abilities to make new discoveries although may not persist at solving difficult problems.
5.1 Take greater initiative in making new discoveries, identifying new solutions, and persisting in trying to figure things out.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SE 1.2 Demonstrates confidence
SE 3.4 Initiates learning
AL 3.0 Demonstrates a desire to seek out information
AL 3.1 Asks questions and problem solves
Social Interaction
1.0 Interaction with Familiar Adults
1.1 Interact with familiar adults comfortably and competently, especially in familiar settings.
1.1 Participate in longer and more reciprocal interactions with familiar adults and take greater initiative in social interaction.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
AL 5.1 Initiates social interactions
SE 2.1 Makes positive social connections
2.0 Interaction with Peers
2.1 Interact easily with peers in shared activities that occasionally become cooperate with each other.
2.1 More actively and intentionally cooperate with each other.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SE 3.3 Cooperates within shared space
SE 2.1 Makes positive social connections
AL 5.1 Initiates social interactions
SE 2.2 Cooperates
2.2 Participate in simple sequences of pretend play.
2.2 Create more complex sequences of pretend play that involve planning, coordination of roles, and cooperation.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 4.1 Participates in dramatic play
AL 1.1 Uses imagination and creativity to create new ideas or extend understanding
2.3 Seek assistance in resolving peer conflict, especially when disagreements have escalated into physical aggression.
2.3 Negotiate with each other, seeking adult assistance when needed, and increasingly use words to respond to conflict. Disagreements may be expressed with verbal taunting in addition to physical aggression.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SE 4.1 Manages emotions appropriately
AL 5.1 Initiates social interactions
SE 2.1 Makes positive social connections
SE 3.3 Cooperates within shared space
SE 1.1 Aware of thoughts, needs, and feelings of self and others
3.0 Group Participation
3.1 Participate in group activities and are beginning to understand and cooperate with social expectations, group rules, and roles.
3.1 Participate positively and cooperatively as group members.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SE 1.1 Aware of thoughts, needs, and feelings of self and others
SE 2.1 Makes positive social connections
SE 2.2 Cooperates
SE 2.3 Shows empathy for others
SE 3.3 Cooperates within shared spaces
AL 4.2 Displays a positive attitude
AL 5.1 Initiates social interactions
SE 4.1 Manages emotions appropriately
4.0 Cooperation and Responsibility
4.1 Seek to cooperate with adult instructions but their capacities for self-control are limited, especially when they are frustrated or upset.
4.1 Having growing capacities for self-control and are motivated to cooperate in order to receive adult approval and think approvingly of themselves.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SAL 4.2 Displays a positive attitude
AL 5.1 Initiates social interactions
SE 4.1 Manages emotions appropriately
SE 1.1 Aware of thoughts, needs, and feelings of self and others
SE 2.1 Makes positive social connections
SE 2.2 Cooperates
Relationships
1.0 Attachment to Parents
1.1 Seek security and support from their primary family attachment figures.
1.1 Take greater initiative in seeking support from their primary family attachment figures.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SE 2.1 Makes positive social connections
AL 5.1 Initiates social interactions
1.2 Contribute to maintaining positive relationships with their primary family attachment figures.
1.2 Contribute to positive mutual cooperation with their primary family attachment figures.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SE 2.1 Makes positive social connections
AL 5.1 Initiates social interactions
AL 4.2 Displays a positive attitude
SE 4.1 Manages emotions appropriately
SE 1.1 Aware of thoughts, needs, and feelings of self and others
1.3 After experience with out-of-home care, manage departures and separations from primary family attachments figures with the teacher’s assistance.
1.3 After experience with out-of- home care, comfortably depart from primary family attachment figures. Also maintain well-being while apart from primary family attachment figures during the day.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SE 2.1 Makes positive social connections
AL 5.1 Initiates social interactions
AL 4.2 Displays a positive attitude
SE 4.1 Manages emotions appropriately
2.0 Close Relationships with Teachers and Caregivers
2.1 Seek security and support from their primary teachers and caregivers.
2.1 Take greater initiative in seeking the support of their primary teachers and caregivers.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SE 2.1 Makes positive social connections
SE 2.1 Makes positive social connections
AL 5.1 Initiates social interactions
2.2 Contribute to maintaining positive relationships with primary teachers and caregivers.
2.2 Contribute to positive mutual cooperation with primary teachers and caregivers.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SE 2.1 Makes positive social connections with others
AL 5.1 Initiates social interactions
3.0 Friendships
3.1 Choose to play with one or two special peers whom they identify as friends.
3.1 Friendships are more reciprocal, exclusive, and enduring.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SE 2.1 Makes positive social connections
AL 5.1 Initiates social interactions
AL 4.2 Displays a positive attitude
SE 4.1 Manages emotions appropriately
SE 1.1 Aware of thoughts, needs, and feelings of self and others
Languange and Literacy
Listening and Speaking
1.0 Language Use and Conventions
1.1 Use language to communicate with others in familiar social situations for a variety of basic purposes, including describing, requesting, commenting, acknowledging, greeting, and rejecting.
1.1 Use language to communicate with others in both familiar and unfamiliar social situations for a variety of basic and advanced purposes, including reasoning, predicting, problem solving, and seeking new information.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 2.1 Shows understanding of print conventions
LL 6.1 Participates in conversations
1.2 Speak clearly enough to be understood by familiar adults and children.
1.2 Speak clearly enough to be understood by both familiar and unfamiliar adults and children.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 6.1 Participates in conversations
LL 5.2 Listens for understanding and responds appropriately
1.3 Use accepted language and style during communication with familiar adults and children.
1.3 Use accepted language and style during communication with both familiar and unfamiliar adults and children.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 6.1 Participates in conversations
LL 6.2 Shares stories and/or information
SE 2.0 Demonstrates confidence
1.4 Use language to construct short narratives that are real or fictional.
1.4 Use language to construct extended narratives that are real or fictional.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 4.1 Builds meaning of words
LL 6.2 Shares stories and/or information
AL 2.2 Communicates verbally or through body language
2.0 Vocabulary
2.1 Understand and use accepted words for objects, actions, and attributes encountered frequently in both real and symbolic contexts.
2.1 Understand and use an increasing variety and specificity of accepted words for objects, actions, and attributes encountered in both real and symbolic contexts.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 4.1 Builds meaning of words
LL 3.1 Identifies letters and words
LL 3.2 Understands that letters and words have meaning
LL 6.1 Participates in conversations
LL 6.2 Shares stories or information
2.2 Understand and use accepted words for categories of objects encountered and used in everyday life.
2.2 Understand and use accepted words for categories of objects encountered in everyday life.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 6.1 Participates in conversations
LL 4.1 Builds meaning of words
2.3 Understand and use simple words that describe the relation between objects.
2.3 Understand and use simple both simple and complex words that describe the relation between objects.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 6.1 Participates in conversations
LL 4.1 Builds meaning of words
LL 3.2 Understands that letters and words have meaning
LL 6.2 Shares stories and/or information
4.0 Grammar
3.1 Understand and use increasingly complex and longer sentences, including sentences that combine two phrases or two to three concepts to communicate ideas.
3.1 Understand and use increasingly complex and longer sentences, including sentences that combine two to three phrases or three to four concepts to communicate ideas.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 4.1 Builds meaning of words
LL 4.2 Uses age appropriate grammar
LL 4.1 Builds meaning of words
LL 3.1 Identifies letters and words
LL 3.2 Understands that letters and words have meaning
3.2 Understand and typically use age-appropriate grammar, including accepted word forms, such as subject-verb agreement, progressive tense, regular past tense, regular plurals, pronouns, and possessives.
3.2 Understand and typically use age-appropriate grammar, including accepted word forms, such as subject-verb agreement, progressive tense, regular and irregular past tense, regular and irregular plurals, pronouns, and possessives.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 4.2 Uses age appropriate grammar
Reading
1.0 Concepts of Print
1.1 Begin to display appropriate book-handling behavior and begin to recognize print conventions.
1.1 Display appropriate book-handling behaviors and knowledge of print conventions.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 2.1 Shows understanding of print conventions
1.2 Recognize print as something that can be read.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 3.1 Identifies letters and words
LL 3.2 Understands that letters and words have meaning
LL 8.2 Aware that words can be written down and read
1.2 Understand that print is something that is read and has specific meaning.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 3.2 Understands that letters and words have meaning
LL 7.2 Participates in reading
LL 8.2 Aware that words can be written down and read
2.0 Phonological Awareness
2.1 Orally blend and delete words and syllables without the support of pictures or objects.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 1.1 Demonstrates understanding of sounds, rhyme, and patterns in letters and words
2.2 Orally blend the onsets, rimes, and phonemes of words and orally delete the onsets of words, with the support of pictures or objects.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 1.1 Demonstrates understanding of sounds, rhyme, and patterns in letters and words
3.0 Alphabetics and Word/Print Recognition
3.1 Recognize the first letter of own name.
3.1 Recognize own name or other common words in print.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 3.1 Identifies letters and words
3.2 Match some letter names to their printed form.
3.2 Match more than half of uppercase letter names and more than half of lowercase letter names to their printed form.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 3.1 Identifies letters and words
3.3 Begin to recognize that letters have sounds.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 1.1 Demonstrate understanding of sounds, rhyme, and patterns in letters and words
4.0 Comprehension and Analysis of Age-Appripriation Text
4.1 Demonstrate knowledge of main characters or events in a familiar story (e.g., who, what, where) through answering questions (e.g., recall and simple inferencing), retelling, reenacting or creating artwork.
4.1 Demonstrate knowledge of details in a familiar story, including characters, events, and ordering of events through answering questions (particularly summarizing, predicting, and inferencing), retelling, reenacting, or creating artwork.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 5.1 Responds to text
LL 5.2 Listens for understanding and responds appropriately
M 4.1 Compares and orders
LL 7.2 Participates in reading
4.2 Demonstrate knowledge from informational text through labeling, describing, playing, or creating artwork.
4.2 Use information from informational text in a variety of ways, including describing, relating, categorizing, or comparing and contrasting.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 5.2 Listens for understanding and responds appropriately
M 4.1 Compares and orders
LL 7.2 Participates in reading
LL 6.2 Shares stories and/or information
5.0 Literacy Interest and Response
5.1 Demonstrate enjoyment of literacy and literacy-related activities.
5.1 Demonstrate, with increasing and literacy-related activities. independence, enjoyment of literacy and literacy-related activities.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 7.1 Enjoys reading
LL 7.2 Participates in reading
LL 5.1 Responds to text
5.2 Engage in routines associated with literacy activities.
5.2 Engage in more complex routines associated with literacy activities.
1.1 Display appropriate book-handling behaviors and knowledge of print conventions.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SE 3.4 Initiates Learning
SE 2.2 Cooperates
SE 3.2 Shows flexibility within routines
Writing
1.0 Writing Strategies
1.1 Experiment with grasp and body position using a variety of drawing and writing tools.
1.1 Adjust grasp and body position for increased control in drawing and writing.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CPD 3.1 Controls small muscle movement
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
PD 3.3 Exhibits hand-eye coordination
1.2 Write using scribbles that are different from pictures.
1.2 Write letters or letter-like shapes to represent words or ideas.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 3.1 Controls small muscle movement
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
PD 3.3 Exhibits hand-eye coordination
1.3 Write marks to represent own name
1.3 Write first name nearly correctly.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 3.1 Controls small muscle movement
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
PD 3.3 Exhibits hand-eye coordination
LL 8.1 Writes, letters, words, and name
English-Language Development
Listening
1.0 Children Listen with Understanding
Child enjoys being read to and knows when a favorite story has a part left out.
III.A.1. Child engages in pre-reading and reading-related activities.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
ELD 1.1 Demonstrates progress in English comprehension
LL 5.1 Responds to text
LL 5.2 Listens for understanding and responds appropriately
ELD 1.2 Comprehends and participates in ELD activities
Child enjoys looking at books and telling a story from the pictures or from memory.
III.A.2. Child self-selects books and other written materials to engage in pre-reading behaviors.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
ELD 1.1 Demonstrates progress in English comprehension
LL 5.1 Responds to text
LL 5.2 Listens for understanding and responds appropriate
LL 2.1 Shows understanding of print conventions
AL 1.1 Uses imagination and creativity to create new ideas or extend understanding
ELD 1.2 Comprehends and participates in ELD activities
Child notices environmental print and connects meaning to it.
III.A.3. Child recognizes that text has meaning
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 6.2 Shares stories and information
LL 8.2 Aware that print can be written down and read
LL 3.1 Identifies letters and words
Speaking
1.0 Children use Nonverbal and verbal strategies to communicate with others.
Note: Phonological awareness is just beginning to develop between the ages of 36 and 60 months.
Children should be engaged in listening to books, poems, nursery rhymes, and songs that feature rhyme and alliteration.
III.B.1. Child separates a normally spoken four-word sentence into individual words.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 1.1 Demonstrates understanding of sounds, rhyme, and patterns in letters and words
Child understands and uses increasingly longer sentences.
II.E.5. Child combines sentences that give lots of detail, sticks to the topic, and clearly communicates intended meaning.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
ELD 4.1 Demonstrates progress in English comprehension
LL 6.1 Participates in conversations
LL 6.2 Shares stories and/or information
LL 3.2 Understands that letters and words have meaning
III.B.2. Child combines words to make a compound word.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 3.1 Identifies letters and words
III.B.4. Child blends syllables into words
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 3.1 Identifies letters and words
III.B.5. Child can segment a syllable from a word.
Child can distinguish when two words rhyme.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 1.1 Demonstrates understanding of sounds, rhyme, and patterns in letters and words
LL 3.1 Identifies letters and words
III.B.6. Child can recognize rhyming words.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 1.1 Demonstrates understanding of sounds, rhyme, and patterns in letters and words
2.0 Children begin to understand and use conventions in English
Child can distinguish when two words begin with the same sound.
III.B.7. Child can produce a word that begins with the same sound as a given pair of words.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 1.1 Demonstrates understanding of sounds, rhyme, and patterns in letters and words
LL 3.1 Identifies letters and words
3.0 Children use language to create oral narratives about their personal experiences
III.B.8. Child blends onset (initial consonant or consonants) and rime (vowel to end) to form a familiar
one-syllable word with and without pictorial support.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 3.1 Identifies letters and words
LL 1.1 Demonstrates understanding of sounds, rhyme, and patterns in letters and words
III.B.9. Child recognizes and blends spoken phonemes into one syllable words with pictorial support.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 1.1 Demonstrates understanding of sounds, rhyme, and patterns in letters and words
Reading
1.0 Children demonstrate an appreciation and enjoyment of reading and literature.
1.1 Attend to an adult reading a short storybook written in the home language or a storybook written in English if the story has been written in the home language.
1.1 Begin to participate in reading activities, using books written in English when the language is predictable.
1.1 Participate in reading activities, using a variety of genres that are written in English (e.g., poetry, fairy tales, concept books, and informal books).
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 5.2 Listens for understanding and responds appropriately
ELD 1.1 Demonstrates progress in English comprehension
ELD 3.1 Understands symbols, letters, words, and print knowledge in English
LL 7.2 Participates in reading
1.2 “Read” familiar books written in the home language or in English when encouraged by others and, in the home language, talk about the books.
1.2 Choose to “read” familiar books written in the home language or in English with increasing independence and, in the home language or in English, talk about the books.
1.2 Choose to “read” familiar books written in English with increasing independence and talk about the books in English.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 7.2 Participates in reading
LL 5.2 Listens for understanding and responds appropriately
ELD 1.1 Demonstrates progress in English comprehension
2.0 Children show an increasing understanding of book reading.
2.1 Begin to identify and relate to a story from their own life experiences in the home language (as reported by parents, teachers, assistants, or others, with the assistance of an interpreter if necessary).
2.1 Describe their own experiences related to the topic of the story, using telegraphic and/or formulaic speech in English.
2.1 Begin to engage in extended conversations about stories.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 7.2 Participates in reading
LL 5.2 Listens for understanding and responds appropriately
ELD 1.1 Demonstrates progress in English comprehension
LL 7.1 Enjoys reading
SS 5.1 Shows interest in personal and family history
SS 5.2 Shows interest and shares past, current, and future events
2.2 Retell a story in the home language when read or told a story in the home language (as reported by parents, teachers, assistants, or others, with the assistance of an interpreter if necessary).
2.2 Retell a story using the home language and some English when read or told a story in English.
2.2 Retell in English the majority of a story read or told in English.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 5.1 Responds to text
LL 5.2 Listens for understanding and responds appropriately
3.0 Children demonstrate an understanding of print conventions
3.1 Begin to understand that books are read in a consistent manner (e.g., in English, pages are turned from right to left and the print is read from the top to the bottom, left to right; this may vary in other languages).
3.1 Continue to develop an understanding of how to read a book, sometimes applying knowledge of print conventions from the home language.
3.1 Demonstrate an understanding that print in English is organized from left to right, top to bottom, and that pages are turned from right to left when a book is read.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 2.1 Shows understanding of print conventions
4.0 Children demonstrate awareness that print carries meaning
4.1 Begin to recognize that symbols in the environment (classroom, community, or home) carry a consistent meaning in the home language or in English.
4.1 Recognize in the environment (classroom, community, or home) some familiar symbols, words, and print labels in the home language or English.
4.1 Recognize in the environment (classroom, community, or home) an increasing number of familiar symbols, words, and print labels in English.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
ELD 3.1 Understands symbols, letters, words, and print knowledge in English
LL 3.1 Identifies letters and words
LL 3.2 Understands that letters and words have meaning
ELD 1.1 Demonstrates progress in English comprehension
5.0 Children demonstrate progress in their knowledge of the alphabet in English
5.1 Interact with material representing the letters of the alphabet.
5.1 Begin to talk about the letters of the English alphabet while playing and interacting with them; may code-switch (use the home language and English).
5.1 Begin to demonstrate understanding that the letters of the English alphabet are symbols used to make words..
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
ELD 3.1 Understands symbols, letters, words, and print knowledge in English
ELD 1.1 Demonstrates progress in English comprehension
ELD 1.2 Comprehends and participates in ELD activities
5.2 Begin to recognize the first letter in their own name or the character for their own name in the home language of English.
5.2 Identify some letters of the alphabet in English.
5.2 Identify ten or more letters of the alphabet in English.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
ELD 3.1 Understands symbols, letters, words, and print knowledge in English
LD 1.1 Demonstrates progress in English comprehension
6.0 Children demonstrate phonological awareness.
6.1 Listen attentively and begin to participate in simple songs, poems, and finger plays that emphasize rhyme in the home language English.
6.1 Begin to repeat or recite simple songs, poems, and finger plays that emphasize rhyme in the home language or English.
6.1 Repeat, recite, produce, or initiate simple songs, poems, and finger plays that emphasize rhyme in English.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
ELD 1.1 Demonstrates progress in English comprehension
ELD 1.2 Comprehends and participates in ELD activities
ELD 2.1 Participates in conversational English
LL 1.1 Demonstrates understanding of sounds, rhyme, and patterns in letters and words
CE 1.1 Participates and appreciates music
6.2 Listen attentively and begin to participate in simple songs, poems, and finger plays in the home language of English.
6.2 Begin to recognize words that have a similar onset (initial sound) in the home language or in English, with support.
6.2 Recognize and produce words that have a similar onset (initial sound) in English.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
ELD 1.1 Demonstrates progress in English comprehension
ELD 1.2 Comprehends and participates in ELD activities
ELD 2.1 Participates in conversational English
LL 1.1 Demonstrates understanding of sounds, rhyme, and patterns in letters and words
CE 1.1 Participates and appreciates music
6.3 Attend to and manipulate different sounds or tones in words in the home language (as reported by parents, teachers, with errors. assistants, or others, with the assistance of an interpreter if necessary).
6.3 Begin to use words in English with phonemes (individual units of meaningful sound in a word or syllable) that are different from the home language.
6.3 Begin to orally manipulate sounds (onsets, rimes, and phonemes) in words in English with support.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
ELD 1.1 Demonstrates progress in English comprehension
ELD 1.2 Comprehends and participates in ELD activities
ELD 2.1 Participates in conversational English
LL 1.1 Demonstrates an understanding of sounds, rhymes, and patterns in letters and words
Writing
1.0 Children use writing to communicate their ideas.
1.1 Begin to understand that writing can be used to communicate.
1.1 Begin to understand that what is said in the home language or in English can be written down and read by others.
1.1 Develop an increasing understanding that what is said in English can be written down and read by others.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 5.2 Listens for understanding and responds appropriately
ELD 1.2 Comprehends and participates in ELD activities
PD 3.1 Controls small muscle movement
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
1.2 Begin to demonstrate an awareness that written language can be in the home language or in English.
1.2 Begin to use marks or symbols to represent spoken language in the home language or in English.
1.2 Continue to develop writing by using letters or letter-like marks to represent their ideas in English.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
ELD 1.2 Comprehends and participates in ELD activities
LL 8.1 Write letters, words, and name
LL 8.2 Aware that words can be written down and read
1.3 Write marks to represent their own name in a way that may resemble how it is written in the home language.
1.3 Attempt to copy their own name in English or in the writing system of their home language.
1.3 Write their first name on their own in English nearly correctly, using letters of the English alphabet to accurately represent pronunciation in their home language.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 7.2 Participates in reading
LL 8.1 Write letters, words, and name
PD 3.1 Controls small muscle movement
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
ELD 3.1 Understands symbols, letters, words, and print knowledge in English/p>
Mathematics
Number Sense
1.0 Children begin to understand numbers and quantities in their everyday environment
1.0 Children expand their understanding of numbers and quantities in their everyday environment
Child engages in free drawing and writing activities.
IV.A.1. Child intentionally uses marks, letters, or symbols to record language and verbally shares meaning.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 8.2 Understands that words can be written down and read
LL 6.2 Shares stories or information
Child spontaneously “writes” in different situations.
IV.A.2 Child independently writes to communicate his/her ideas for a variety of purposes.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 8.2 Understands that words can be written down and read
LL 6.2 Shares stories and/or information
Child engages in free drawing and writing activities.
IV.A.1. Child intentionally uses marks, letters, or symbols to record language and verbally shares meaning.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 8.2 Understands that words can be written down and read
LL 6.2 Shares stories or information
Child engages in free drawing and writing activities.
IV.A.1. Child intentionally uses marks, letters, or symbols to record language and verbally shares meaning.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 8.2 Understands that words can be written down and read
LL 6.2 Shares stories or information
Child engages in free drawing and writing activities.
IV.A.1. Child intentionally uses marks, letters, or symbols to record language and verbally shares meaning.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 8.2 Understands that words can be written down and read
LL 6.2 Shares stories or information
2.0 Children begin to understand number relationships and operations in their everyday environment.
2.0 Children expand their understanding of number relationships and operations in their everyday environment.
Child verbally shares ideas and/or tells stories associated with marks on paper.
IV.B.1. Child discusses and contributes ideas for drafts composed in whole/small group writing activities.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 8.2 Understands that words can be written down and read
LL 6.2 Shares stories and/or information
LL 6.1 Participates in conversations
AL 5.2 Participates in “shared” thinking
Child notices when an adult does not repeat or dictate his spoken language accurately.
IV.B. 2. Child interacts and provides suggestions to revise (add, take out, change order) and edit (conventions) class-made drafts.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
AL 5.1 Initiates social interactions
LL 6.2 Shares stories or information
Child shows written products to others.
IV. B.3 Child shares and celebrates class-made and individual written products.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
AL 5.1 Initiates social interactions
LL 6.2 Shares stories and/or information
SE 1.2 Demonstrates confidence
Child engages in free drawing and writing activities.
IV.A.1. Child intentionally uses marks, letters, or symbols to record language and verbally shares meaning.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 8.2 Understands that words can be written down and read
LL 6.2 Shares stories or information
Algebra and Functions (Classification and Patterning)
1.0 Children begin to sort and classify objects in their everyday environment.
1.0 Children expand their understanding of sorting and classifying objects in their everyday environment.
Child records own name in whatever manner she is able.
IV.C.1. Child writes own name (first name or frequent nickname) using legible letters in proper sequence.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 8.1 Writes letters, words, and name
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
Child spontaneously “writes” in various ways.
IV. C. 2 Child moves from scribbles to some letter-sound correspondence using beginning and ending sounds when writing.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 1.1 Demonstrates understanding of sounds, rhyme, and patterns in letters and words.
LL 8.1 Writes letters, words, and name
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
Child uses letter-like forms and actual letters to replace scribbles.
IV.C.3 Child independently uses letters to make words or parts of words.
Child may use directionality based on a random starting place.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 8.1 Writes letters, words, and name
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
IV. C 4. Child uses appropriate directionality when writing (top to bottom, left to right).
Child notices print and realizes that print is what is read rather than the picture.
Child may use directionality based on a random starting place.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 2.1 Shows understanding of print conventions
LL 8.2 Aware that words can be written down and read
IV.C.5. Child begins to experiment with punctuation when writing.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 8.3 Begins to show awareness of punctuation
Measurement
1.0 Children begin to compare and order objects.
1.0 Children expand their understanding of comparing, ordering, and measuring objects.
Child records own name in whatever manner she is able.
IV.C.1. Child writes own name (first name or frequent nickname) using legible letters in proper sequence.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 8.1 Writes letters, words, and name
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
Child spontaneously “writes” in various ways.
IV. C. 2 Child moves from scribbles to some letter-sound correspondence using beginning and ending sounds when writing.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 1.1 Demonstrates understanding of sounds, rhyme, and patterns in letters and words.
LL 8.1 Writes letters, words, and name
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
Child uses letter-like forms and actual letters to replace scribbles.
IV.C.3 Child independently uses letters to make words or parts of words.
Child may use directionality based on a random starting place.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 8.1 Writes letters, words, and name
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
Geometry
1.0 Children begin to identify and use common shapes in their everyday environment.
1.0 Children identify and use a variety of shapes in their everyday environment.
Child records own name in whatever manner she is able.
IV.C.1. Child writes own name (first name or frequent nickname) using legible letters in proper sequence.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 8.1 Writes letters, words, and name
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
Child spontaneously “writes” in various ways.
IV. C. 2 Child moves from scribbles to some letter-sound correspondence using beginning and ending sounds when writing.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 1.1 Demonstrates understanding of sounds, rhyme, and patterns in letters and words.
LL 8.1 Writes letters, words, and name
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
2.0 Children begin to understand positions in space.
2.0 Children expand their understanding of positions in space
Child records own name in whatever manner she is able.
IV.C.1. Child writes own name (first name or frequent nickname) using legible letters in proper sequence.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 8.1 Writes letters, words, and name
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
Mathematical Reasoning
1.0 Children use mathematical thinking to solve problems that arise in their everyday environment.
1.0 Children expand the use of mathematical thinking to solve problems that arise in their environment.
Child records own name in whatever manner she is able.
IV.C.1. Child writes own name (first name or frequent nickname) using legible letters in proper sequence.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 8.1 Writes letters, words, and name
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
Visual and Performing Arts
Learning Box Preschool Curriculum Alignment with The California Preschool Learning Foundations Volume 2
1.0 Notice, Respond, and Engage
1.1 Notice and communicate about objects or forms that appear in art.
1.1 Communicate about elements appearing in art (such as line, texture, or perspective), and describe how objects are positioned in the artwork.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 3.1 Communicates through visual arts
1.2 Create marks with crayons, paints, and chalk and then identify them; mold and build with dough and clay and then identify them.
1.2 Begin to plan art and show increasing care and persistence in completing it.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 3.1 Communicates through visual arts
AL 2.1 Ability to participate for longer periods of time
AL 3.0 Demonstrates a desire to seek out information
1.3 Enjoy and engage with displays of visual art, inside or outside the classroom. Begin to express preferences for some art activities or materials.
1.3 Enjoy and engage with displays of visual art. May expand critical assessment of visual art to include preferences for types of artwork or art activities.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 3.1 Communicates through visual arts
1.4 Choose own art for display in the classroom or for inclusion in a portfolio or book and briefly explain choice.
1.4 Choose own art for display in the classroom or for inclusion in a portfolio or book and explain her or his ideas in some detail.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 6.2 Shares stories or information
2.0 Develop Skills in Visual Art
2.1 Make straight and curved marks and lines; begin to draw rough circle shapes.
2.1 Draw single circle and add lines to create representations of people and things.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 3.1 Communicates through visual arts
PD 3.1 Controls small muscle movement
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
M 3.1 Identifies shapes
2.2 Begin to create paintings or drawings that suggest people, animals, and objects.
2.2 Begin to create representative paintings or drawings that approximate or depict people, animals, or objects.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 3.1 Communicates through visual arts
D 3.1 Controls small muscle movement
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
M 3.1 Identifies shapes
2.3 Make somewhat regular-shaped balls and coils out of dough or clay.
2.3 Make more representational forms out of dough or clay, using tools (for example, a rolling pin or a garlic press).
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 3.1 Communicates through visual arts
PD 3.1 Controls small muscle movement
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
2.4 Begin to use paper and other materials to assemble simple collages.
2.4 Use paper and other materials to make two- and three-dimensional assembled works.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 3.1 Communicates through visual arts
PD 3.1 Controls small muscle movement
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
2.5 Begin to recognize and name materials and tools used for visual arts.
2.5 Recognize and name materials and tools used for visual arts.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 3.1 Communicates through visual arts
PD 3.1 Controls small muscle movement
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
M 3.1 Identifies shapes
2.6 Demonstrate some motor control when working with visual arts tools.
2.6 Demonstrate increasing coordination and motor control when working with visual arts tools.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 3.1 Communicates through visual arts
PD 3.1 Controls small muscle movement
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
3.0 Create, Invent, and Express Through Visual Art
3.1 Create art and sometimes name the work.
3.1 Intentionally create content in a work of art.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 3.1 Communicates through visual arts
PD 3.1 Controls small muscle movement
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
3.2 Begin to draw figures or objects. 3.2 Draw more detailed figures or objects with more control of line and shape.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 3.1 Communicates through visual arts
PD 3.1 Controls small muscle movement
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
3.3 Begin to use intensity of marks and color to express a feeling or mood.
3.3 Use intensity of marks and color more frequently to express a feeling or mood.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 3.1 Communicates through visual arts
Music
1.0 Notice, Respond, and Engage
1.1 Sustain attention and begin to reflect verbally about music; demonstrate familiarity with words that describe music.
1.1 Verbally reflect on music and describe music by using an expanded vocabulary.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 1.1 Participates and appreciates music
LL 4.1 Builds meaning of words
1.2 Recognize simple repeating melody and rhythm patterns.
1.2 Demonstrate more complex repeating melody and rhythm patterns.p>
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 1.1 Participates and appreciates music
M 2.1 Follows and creates simple patterns
1.3 Identify the sources of a limited variety of musical sounds.
1.3 Identify the sources of a wider variety of music and music-like sounds.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 1.1 Participates and appreciates music
1.4 Use body movement freely to respond loosely to beat—loud versus quiet (dynamics)—and tempo.
1.4 Use body movement freely and more accurately to respond to beat, dynamics, and tempo of music.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 1.1 Participates and appreciates music
PD 2.1 Displays balance and coordination
PD 2.2 Uses locomotor skills
Child seeks adult help when experiencing conflicts with another child.
I.C.5. Child initiates problem-solving strategies and seeks adult help when necessary.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
AL 3.1 Demonstrates a desire to seek out information
AL 5.1 Initiates social interactions
AL 3.2 Asks questions and problem solves
2.0 Develop Skills in Music
2.1 Begin to discriminate between different voices and certain instrumental and environmental sounds. Follow words in a song.
2.1 Become more able to discriminate between different voices and various instrumental and environmental sounds. Follow words in a song.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 1.1 Participates and appreciates music
AL 5.3 Follows directions
LL 1.1 Demonstrates understanding of sounds, rhyme, and patterns in letters and words
2.2 Explore vocally; sing repetitive patterns and parts of songs alone and with others.
2.2 Extend vocal exploration; sing repetitive patterns and entire songs alone and with others in wider ranges of pitch.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 1.1 Participates and appreciates music
AL 1.1 Uses imagination and creativity to create new ideas or extend understanding
M 2.1 Follows and creates simple patterns
3.0 Create, Invent, and Express Through Music
3.1 Explore vocal and instrumental skills and use instruments to produce simple rhythms and tones.
3.1 Continue to apply vocal and instrumental skills and use instruments to produce more complex rhythms, tones, melodies, and songs.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 1.1 Participates and appreciates music
AL 1.1 Uses imagination and creativity to create new ideas or extend understanding
3.2 Move or use body to demonstrate beat and tempo, often spontaneously.
3.2 Move or use body to demonstrate beat, tempo, and style of music, often intentionally.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 1.1 Participates and appreciates music
PD 2.1 Displays balance and coordination
PD 2.2 Uses locomotor skills
3.3 Improvise vocally and instrumentally.
3.3 Explore, improvise, and create brief melodies with voice or instrument.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 1.1 Participates and appreciates music
Drama
1.0 Notice, Respond, and Engage
1.1 Demonstrate an understanding of simple drama vocabulary.
1.1 Demonstrate a broader understanding of drama vocabulary.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 4.1 Participates in dramatic play
1.2 Identify preferences and interests related to participating in drama.
1.2 Explain preferences and interests related to participating in drama.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 4.1 Participates in dramatic play
SE 1.1 Aware of thoughts, needs, and feelings of self and others
1.3 Demonstrate knowledge of simple plot of a participatory drama.
1.3 Demonstrate knowledge of extended plot and conflict of a participatory drama.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 4.1 Participates in dramatic play
2.0 Develop Skills to Create, Invent, and Express Through Drama
2.1 Demonstrate basic role-play skills with imagination and creativity.
2.1 Demonstrate extended role-play skills with increased imagination and creativity.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 4.1 Participates in dramatic play
AL 1.1 Uses imagination and creativity to create new ideas or extend understanding
2.2 Add props and costumes to enhance dramatization of familiar stories and fantasy play with peers.
2.2 Create and use an increasing variety of props, costumes and scenery to enhance dramatization of familiar stories and fantasy play with peers.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
AL 1.1 Uses imagination and creativity to create new ideas or extend understanding
Dance
1.0 Notice, Respond, and Engage
1.1 Engage in dance movements.
1.1 Further engage and participate in dance movements.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 2.1 Expresses self through dance
CE 2.2 Participates in a variety of body movements
PD 2.1 Displays balance and coordination
PD 2.2 Uses locomotor skills
1.2 Begin to understand and use vocabulary related to dance.
1.2 Connect dance terminology with demonstrated steps.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 2.1 Expresses self through dance
CE 2.2 Participates in a variety of body movements
1.3 Respond to instruction of one skill at a time during movement, such as a jump or fall.
1.3 Respond to instruction of more than one skill at a time in movement, such as turning, leaping, and turning again. Often initiate a sequence of skills.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 2.1 Expresses self through dance
CE 2.2 Participates in a variety of body movements
PD 2.1 Displays balance and coordination
PD 2.2 Uses locomotor skills
1.4 Explore and use different steps and movements to create or form a dance.
1.4 Use understanding of different steps and movements to create or form a dance.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 2.1 Expresses self through dance
CE 2.2 Participates in a variety of body movements
AL 1.1 Uses imagination and creativity to create new ideas or extend understanding
2.0 Develop Skills in Dance
2.1 Begin to be aware of own body in space.
2.1 Continue to develop awareness of body in space.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 2.1 Expresses self through dance
CE 2.2 Participates in a variety of body movements
PD 2.1 Displays balance and coordination
PD 2.2 Uses locomotor skills
3.2 Comprehends positions in space
2.2 Begin to be aware of other people in dance or when moving in space.
2.2 Show advanced awareness and coordination of movement with other people in dance or when moving in space.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 2.1 Expresses self through dance
CE 2.2 Participates in a variety of body movements
PD 2.1 Displays balance and coordination
PD 2.2 Uses locomotor skills
M 3.2 Comprehends positions in space
2.3 Begin to respond to tempo and timing through movement.
2.3 Demonstrate some advanced skills in responding to tempo and timing through movement.
II.E.1. Child typically uses complete sentences of four or more words and grammatical complexity usually with subject, verb, and object order.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 2.1 Expresses self through dance
E 2.2 Participates in a variety of body movements
PD 2.1 Displays balance and coordination
PD 2.2 Uses locomotor skills
M 3.2 Comprehends positions in space
3.1 Begin to act out and dramatize through music and movement patterns.
3.1 Extend understanding and skills for acting out and dramatizing through music and movement patterns.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 2.1 Expresses self through dance
CE 2.2 Participates in a variety of body movements
CE 4.1 Participates in dramatic play
AL 1.1 Uses imagination and creativity to create new ideas or extend understanding
3.2 Invent dance movements.
3.2 Invent and recreate dance movements.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 2.1 Expresses self through dance
CE 2.2 Participates in a variety of body movements
AL 1.1 Uses imagination and creativity to create new ideas or extend understanding
3.3 Improvise simple dances that have a beginning and an end.
3.3 Improvise more complex dances that have a beginning, middle, and an end.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 2.1 Expresses self through dance
CE 2.2 Participates in a variety of body movements
PD 2.1 Displays balance and coordination
PD 2.2 Uses locomotor skills
3.4 Communicate feelings spontaneously through dance and begin to express simple feelings intentionally through dance when prompted by adults.
3.4 Communicate and express feelings intentionally through dance.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
CE 2.1 Expresses self through dance
CE 2.2 Participates in a variety of body movements
AL 2.2 Communicates verbally or through body language
AL 1.1 Uses imagination and creativity to create new ideas or extend understanding
Physical Development
1.0 Balance
1.1 Maintain balance while holding still; sometimes may need assistance.
1.1 Show increasing balance and control when holding still.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 2.2 Uses locomotor skills
PD 2.1 Displays balance and coordination
1.2 Maintain balance while in motion when moving from one position to another or when changing directions, though balance may not be completely stable.
1.2 Show increasing balance control while moving in different directions and when transitioning from one movement or position to another.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 2.1 Displays balance and coordination
PD 2.2 Uses locomotor skills
2.0 Locomotor Skills
2.1 Walk with balance, not always stable, oppositional arm movements still developing, and relatively wide base of support (space between feet).
2.1 Walk with balance, oppositional arm movements, and relatively narrow base of support (space between feet).
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 2.1 Displays balance and coordination
PD 2.2 Uses locomotor skills
2.2 Run with short stride length and feet off the ground for a short period of time. May show inconsistent opposition of arms and legs.
2.2 Run with a longer stride length and each foot off the ground for a greater length of time. Opposition of arms and legs is more consistent.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 2.1 Displays balance and coordination
PD 2.2 Uses locomotor skills
2.3 Jump for height (up or down) and for distance with beginning competence.
2.3 Jump for height (up or down) and for distance with increasing competence. Uses arm swing to aid forward jump.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 2.1 Displays balance and coordination
PD 2.2 Uses locomotor skills
2.4 Begin to demonstrate a variety of locomotor skills, such as galloping, sliding, hopping, and leaping.
2.4 Demonstrate increasing ability and body coordination in a variety of locomotor skills, such as galloping, sliding, hopping, and leaping.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 2.1 Displays balance and coordination
PD 2.2 Uses locomotor skills
3.0 Manipulative Skills
3.1 Begin to show gross motor manipulative skills by using arms, hands, and feet, such as rolling a ball underhand, tossing underhand, bouncing, catching, striking, throwing overhand, and kicking.
3.1 Show gross motor manipulative skills by using arms, hands, and feet with increased coordination, such as rolling a ball underhand, tossing underhand, bouncing, catching, striking, throwing overhand, and kicking.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 3.1 Controls small muscle movement
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
PD 3.3 Exhibits hand-eye coordination
3.2 Begin to show fine motor manipulative skills using hands and arms such as in-hand manipulation, writing, cutting, and dressing.
3.2 Show increasing fine motor manipulative skills using hands and arms such as in-hand manipulation, writing, cutting, and dressing.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 3.1 Controls small muscle movement
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
PD 3.3 Exhibits hand-eye coordination
Perceptual-Motor Skills and Movement Concepts
1.0 Body Awareness
1.1 Demonstrate knowledge of the names of body parts.
1.1 Demonstrate knowledge of an increasing number of body parts.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 4.1 Builds meaning of words SE 1.1 Aware of thoughts, needs, and feelings of self and others
2.0 Spatial Awareness
2.1 Use own body as reference point when locating or relating to other people or objects in space.
2.1 Use own body, general space, and other people’s space when locating or relating to other people or objects in space.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
M 3.2 Comprehends positions in space
3.0 Directional Awareness
3.1 Distinguish movements that are up and down and to the side of the body (for example, understands “use that side, now the other side”).
3.1 Begin to understand and distinguish between the sides of the body.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
M 3.2 Comprehends positions in space
3.2 Move forward and backward or up and down easily.
3.2 Can change directions quickly and accurately.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
M 3.2 Comprehends positions in space
PD 2.1 Displays balance and coordination
PD 2.2 Uses locomotor skills
3.3 Can place an object on top of or under something with some accuracy.
3.3 Can place an object or own body in front of, to the side, or behind something else with greater accuracy.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
M 3.2 Comprehends positions in space
PD 3.1 Controls small muscle movement
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
PD 3.3 Exhibits hand-eye coordination
3.4 Use any two body parts together. 3.4 Demonstrate more precision and efficiency during two-handed fine motor activities.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 3.1 Controls small muscle movement
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
PD 3.3 Exhibits hand-eye coordination
PD 2.1 Displays balance and coordination
PD 2.2 Uses locomotor skills
Active Physical Play
1.0 Active Participation
1.1 Initiate or engage in simple physical activities for a short to moderate period of time.
1.1 Initiate more complex physical activities for a sustained period of time.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 4.1 Actively participates
PD 4.2 Builds muscular strength and cardiovascular endurance
AL 2.1 Ability to participate for longer periods of time
2.0 Cardiovascular Endurance
2.1 Engage in frequent bursts of active play that involves the heart, the lungs, and the vascular system.
2.1 Engage in sustained active play of increasing intensity that involves the heart, the lungs, and the vascular system
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 4.1 Actively participates
PD 4.2 Builds muscular strength and cardiovascular endurance
AL 2.1 Ability to participate for longer periods of time
3.0 Muscular Strength, Muscular Endurance, and Flexibility
3.1 Engage in active play activities that enhance leg and arm strength, muscular endurance, and flexibility.
3.1 Engage in increasing amounts of active play activities that enhance leg and arm strength, muscular endurance, and flexibility.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 3.1 Controls small muscle movement
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
PD 3.3 Exhibits hand-eye coordination
PD 2.1 Displays balance and coordination
PD 2.2 Uses locomotor skills
PD 4.1 Actively participates
PD 4.2 Builds muscular strength and cardiovascular endurance
Health
Health Habits
1.0 Basic Hygiene
1.1 Demonstrate knowledge of some steps in the handwashing routine.
1.1 Demonstrate knowledge of more steps in the handwashing routine.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 1.1 Practices daily self-care
1.2 Practice health habits that prevent infectious diseases and infestations (such as lice) when appropriate, with adult support, instruction, and modeling.
1.2 Begin to independently practice health habits that prevent infectious disease and infestations (such as lice) when appropriate, with less adult support, instruction, and modeling.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 1.1 Practices daily self-care
LL 5.2 Listens for understanding and responds appropriately
PD 1.2 Comprehends and applies safety rules
2.0 Oral Health
2.1 Demonstrate knowledge of some steps of the routine for brushing teeth, with adult supervision and instruction.
2.1 Demonstrate knowledge of more steps of the routine for brushing and when tooth brushing should be done, with less adult supervision.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 1.1 Practices daily self-care
3.0 Knowledge and Wellness
3.1 Identify a few internal body parts (most commonly the bones, brain, and heart) but may not understand their basic function.
3.1 Identify several different internal body parts and demonstrate a basic, limited knowledge of some functions.
3.2 Begin to understand that healthcare providers try to keep people well and help them when they are not well.
3.2 Demonstrate greater understanding that health-care providers try to keep people well and help them when they are not well.
3.3 Communicate to an adult about not feeling well, feeling uncomfortable, or about a special health need, with varying specificity and reliability.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 1.1 Practices daily self-care
PD 1.2 Comprehends and applies safety rules
LL 6.1 Participates in conversations
3.3 Communicate to an adult about not feeling well, feeling uncomfortable, or about a special health need, with more specificity and reliability.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 1.1 Practices daily self-care
PD 1.2 Comprehends and applies safety rules
LL 6.1 Participates in conversations
4.0 Sun Safety
4.1 Begin to practice sun-safe actions, with adult support and guidance.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 1.1 Practices daily self-care
PD 1.2 Comprehends and applies safety rules
Safety
1.0 Injury Prevention
1.1 Follow safety rules with adult support and prompting.
1.1 Follow safety rules more independently though may still need adult support and prompting.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 1.2 Comprehends and applies safety rules
1.2 Begin to show ability to follow emergency routines after instruction and practice (for example, a fire drill or earthquake drill).
1.2 Demonstrate increased ability to follow emergency routines after instruction and practice.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
AL 5.3 Follows directions
PD 1.2 Comprehends and applies safety rules
SE 3.0 Maintains focus
SE 2.2 Cooperates
1.3 Show beginning ability to follow transportation and pedestrian safety rules with adult instruction and supervision.
1.3 Show increased ability to follow transportation and pedestrian safety rules with adult support and supervision.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 1.2 Comprehends and applies safety rules
Nutrition
1.0 Nutrition Knowledge
1.1 Identify different kinds of foods.
1.1 Identify a larger variety of foods and may know some of the related food groups.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 1.3 Makes healthy food choices
2.0 Nutrition Checks
2.1 Demonstrate a beginning understanding that eating a variety of food helps the body grow and be healthy, and choose from a variety of foods at mealtimes.
2.1 Demonstrate greater understanding that eating a variety of food helps the body grow and be healthy, and choose from a greater variety of foods at mealtimes.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 1.3 Makes healthy food choices
2.2 Indicate food preferences that reflect familial and cultural practices.
2.2 Indicate food preferences based on familial and cultural practices and on some knowledge of healthy choices.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 1.3 Makes healthy food choices
SS 1.2 Examines diversity, culture, and traditions
SE 1.1 Aware of thoughts, needs, and feelings of self and others
3.0 Self-Regulation of Eating
3.1 Indicate awareness of own hunger and fullness.
3.1 Indicate greater awareness of own hunger and fullness.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 1.3 Makes healthy food choices
SE 1.1 Aware of thoughts, needs, feelings of self and others
History-Social Science
Learning Box Preschool Curriculum Alignment with The California Preschool Learning Foundations Volume 3
Self and Society
1.0 Culture and Diversity
1.1 Exhibit developing cultural, ethnic, and racial identity and understand relevant language and cultural practices. Display curiosity about diversity in human characteristics and practices, but prefer those of their own group.
1.1 Manifest stronger cultural, ethnic, and racial identity and great familiarity with relevant language, tradition, and other practices. Show more interest in human diversity, but strongly favor characteristics of their own group.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SS 1.1 Identifies personal and family roles within the community
SS 2.2 Examines diversity, culture and traditions
SS 5.1 Shows interest in personal and family history
2.0 Relationships
2.1 Interact comfortably with many peers and adults; actively contribute to creating and maintaining relationships with a few significant adults and peers.
2.1 Understand the mutual responsibilities of relationships; take initiative in developing relationships that are mutual, cooperative, and exclusive.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SS 1.1 Identifies personal and family roles within the community
SS 5.1 Shows interest in personal and family history
AL 5.1 Initiates social interactions
SE 2.1 Makes positive social connections with others
SE 1.0 Aware of thoughts, needs and feelings of self and others
3.0 Social Roles and Occupations
3.1 Play familiar adult social roles and occupations (such as parent, teacher, and doctor) consistent with their developing knowledge of these roles.
3.1 Exhibit more sophisticated understanding of a broader variety of adult roles and occupations, but uncertain how work relates to income.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SS 1.1 Identifies personal and family roles within the community
SS 3.1 Understands roles and occupations
CE 4.1 Participates in dramatic play
Becoming a Preschool Community Member (Civics)
1.0 Skills for Democratic Participation
1.1 Identify as members of a group, participate willingly in group activities, and begin to understand and accept responsibility as group members, although assistance is required in coordinating personal interests with those of others.
1.1 Become involved as responsible participants in group activities, with growing understanding of the importance of considering others’ opinions, group decision making, and respect for majority rules and the views of group members who disagree with the majority.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SS 2.1 Understands citizenship and responsibilities
SE 2.1 Makes positive social connections with others
AL 5.2 Participates in “shared” thinking
Al 5.1 Initiates social interactions
AL 4.3 Freedom to explore ideas with others
SE 1.0 Aware of thoughts, needs, and feelings of self and others
2.0 Responsible Conduct
2.1 Strive to cooperate with group expectations to maintain adult approval and get along with others.
Self-control is inconsistent, however, especially when children are frustrated or upset.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SE 4.0 Manages emotions appropriately
SE 3.2 Shows flexibility within routines
SE 3.3 Cooperates within shared spaces
SE 1.0 Aware of thoughts, needs, and feelings of self and others
AL 4.2 Displays a positive attitude
SE 2.1 Makes positive social connections with others
2.1 Exhibit responsible conduct more reliably as children develop self-esteem (and adult approval) from being responsible group members. May also manage others’ behavior to ensure that others also fit in with group expectations.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SSE 4.0 Manages emotions appropriately
SE 3.2 Shows flexibility within routines
SE 3.3 Cooperates within shared spaces
SE 1.0 Aware of thoughts, needs, and feelings of self and others
AL 4.2 Displays a positive attitude
3.1 Respond to the feelings and needs of others with simple forms of assistance, sharing, and turn- taking. Understand the importance of rules that protect fairness and maintain order.
3.1 Pay attention to others’ feelings, more likely to provide assistance, and try to coordinate personal desires with those of other children in mutually satisfactory ways. Actively support rules that protect fairness to others.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SE 4.0 Manages emotions appropriately
SE 3.2 Shows flexibility within routines
SE 3.3 Cooperates within shared spaces
SE 1.0 Aware of thoughts, needs, and feelings of self and others
AL 4.2 Displays a positive attitude
4.0 Conflict Resolution
4.1 Can use simple bargaining strategies and seek adult assistance when in conflict with other children or adults, although frustration, distress, or aggression also occurs.
4.1 More capable of negotiating, compromising, and finding cooperative means of resolving conflict with peers or adults, although verbal aggression may also result.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SE 4.0 Manages emotions appropriately
SE 3.2 Shows flexibility within routines
SE 1.0 Aware of thoughts, needs, and feelings of self and others
AL 4.2 Displays a positive attitude
AL 3.2 Asks questions and solves problems
AL 4.1 Accepts change and failures
Sense of Time (History)
1.0 Understanding Past Events
1.1 Recall past experiences easily and enjoy hearing stories about the past, but require adult help to determine when past events occurred in relation to each other and to connect them with current experience.
1.1 Show improving ability to relate past events to other past events and current experiences, although adult assistance continues to be important.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SS 5.1 Shows interest in personal and family history
SS 1.2 Examines, diversity, culture, and traditions
SS 5.2 Shows interest and shares past, current, and future events.
2.0 Anticipating and Planning Future Events
2.1 Anticipate events in familiar situations in the near future, with adult assistance.
2.1 Distinguish when future events will happen, plan for them, and make choices (with adult assistance) that anticipate future needs.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SS 5.2 Shows interest and shares past, current, and future events.
3.0 Personal History
3.1 Proudly display developing skills to attract adult attention and share simple accounts about recent experiences.
3.1 Compare current abilities with skills at a younger age and share more detailed autobiographical stories about recent experiences.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SS 5.1 Shows interest in personal and family history
SS 1.2 Examines, diversity, culture, and traditions
SS 5.2 Shows interest and shares past, current, and future events.
LL 6.1 Participates in conversations
4.0 Historical Changes in People of the World
4.1 Easily distinguish older family members from younger ones (and other people) and events in the recent past from those that happened “long ago,” although do not readily sequence historical events on a timeline.
4.1 Develop an interest in family history (e.g., when family members were children) as well as events of “long ago,” and begin to understand when these events occurred in relation to each other.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SS 5.1 Shows interest in personal and family history
SS 1.2 Examines, diversity, culture, and traditions
SS 5.2 Shows interest and shares past, current, and future events.
LL 6.1 Participates in conversations
Sense of Place (Geography and Ecology)
1.0 Navigating Familiar Locations
1.1 Identify the characteristics of familiar locations such as home and school, describe objects and activities associated with each, recognize the routes between them, and begin using simple directional language (with various degrees of accuracy).
1.1 Comprehend larger familiar locations, such as the characteristics of their community and region (including hills and streams, weather, common activities) and the distances between familiar locations (such as between home and school), and compare their home community with those of others.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SS 4.1 Comprehends and compares characteristics of the local area
SS 4.2 Develops mapping skills
Caring for the Natural World
2.1 Show an interest in nature (including animals, plants, and weather) especially as children have direct experience with them. Begin to understand human interactions with the environment (such as pollution in a lake or stream) and the importance of taking care of plants and animals.
2.1 Show an interest in a wider range of natural phenomena, including those not directly experienced (such as snow for a child living in Southern California), and are more concerned about caring for the natural world and the positive and negative impacts of people on the natural world (e.g., recycling, putting trash in trash cans).
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SS 4.3 Shows concern for the environment
S 3.1 Understand characteristics of living things
S 2.1 Identifies characteristics of Earth’s environment
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
SS 1.1 Identifies personal and family roles within their community
SS 2.1 Understands citizenship and responsibilities
SE 2.3 Shows empathy for others
3.0 Understanding the Physical World Through Drawings and Maps
3.1 Can use drawings, globes, and maps to refer to the physical world, although often unclear on the use of map symbols.
3.1 Create their own drawings, maps, and models; are more skilled at using globes, maps, and map symbols; and use maps for basic problem solving (such as locating objects) with adult guidance.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SS 4.1 Comprehends and compares characteristics of the local area
SS 4.2 Develops mapping skills
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
Marketplace (Economics)
Exchange
1.1 Understand ownership, limited supply, what stores do, give-and take, and payment of money to sellers. Show interest in money and its function, but still figuring out the relative value of coins.
1.1 Understand more complex economic concepts (e.g., bartering; more money is needed for things of greater value; if more people want something, more will be sold).
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
SS 3.1 Understands roles and occupations in society
SS 3.2 Understands the role of money in society
Scientific Inquiry
1.0 Observation and Investigation
1.1 Demonstrate curiosity and raise simple questions about objects and events in their environment.
1.1 Demonstrate curiosity and an increased ability to raise questions about objects and events in their environment.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
S 5.2 Investigates how things work
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
S 1.2 Makes predictions and describes outcomes
SE 3.4 Initiates learning
AL 3.1 Demonstrates a desire to seek out information
AL 3.2 Asks questions and problem solves
1.2 Observe1 objects and events in the environment and describe them.
1.2 Observe objects and events in the environment and describe them in greater detail.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
S 5.2 Investigates how things work
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
AL 1.1 Uses imagination and creativity to create new ideas or extend understanding
AL 3.2 Asks questions and problem solves
LL 6.1 Participates in conversations
1.3 Begin to identify and use, with adult support, some observation and measurement tools.
1.3 Identify and use a greater variety of observation and measurement tools. May spontaneously use an appropriate tool, though may still need adult support.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
PD 3.3 Exhibits hand-eye coordination
S 5.2 Investigates how things work
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
1.4 Compare and contrast objects and events and begin to describe similarities and differences.
1.4 Compare and contrast objects and events and describe similarities and differences in greater detail.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
S 5.2 Investigates how things work
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
M 2.2 Classifies, sorts, and charts data
M 4.1 Compares and orders
1.5 Make predictions and check them, with adult support, through concrete experiences.
1.5 Demonstrate an increased ability to make predictions and check them (e.g., may make more complex predictions, offer ways to test predictions, and discuss why predictions were correct or incorrect).
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
S 1.2 Makes predictions and describes outcomes
Al 1.2 Can visualize a solution
AL 3.2 Asks questions and problem solves
LL 6.1 Participates in conversations
AL 4.3 Freedom to explore ideas with others
1.6 Make inferences and forms generalizations based on evidence.
1.6 Demonstrate an increased ability to make inferences and form generalizations based on evidence.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
Al 1.2 Can visualize a solution
AL 3.2 Asks questions and problem solves
M 4.1 Compares and orders
M 2.1 Follows and creates simple patterns
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
S 1.2 Makes predictions and describes outcomes
2.0 Documentation and Communication
2.1 Record observations or findings in various ways, with adult assistance, including pictures, words (dictated to adults), charts, journals, models, and photos.
2.1 Record information more regularly and in greater detail in various ways, with adult assistance, including pictures, words (dictated to adults), charts, journals, models, photos, or by tallying and graphing information.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
S 1.2 Makes predictions and describes outcomes
CE 3.1 Communicates through visual arts
M 4.2 Measures
2.2 Share findings and explanations, which may be correct or incorrect, with or without adult prompting.
2.2 Share findings and explanations, which may be correct or incorrect, more spontaneously and with greater detail.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
LL 6.1 Participates in conversations
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
S 1.2 Makes predictions and describes outcomes
Physical Sciences
1.0 Properties and Characteristics of Nonliving Objects and Materials
1.1 Observe, investigate, and identify the characteristics and physical properties of objects and of solid and nonsolid materials (size, weight, shape, color, texture, and sound).
1.1 Demonstrate increased ability to observe, investigate, and describe in greater detail the characteristics and physical properties of objects and of solid and nonsolid materials (size, weight, shape, color, texture, and sound).
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
S 4.1 Recognizes physical properties of objects and materials
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
S 1.2 Makes predictions and describes outcomes
SE 3.4 Initiates learning
2.0 Changes in Nonliving Objects and Materials
2.1 Demonstrate awareness that objects and materials can change; explore and describe changes in objects and materials (rearrangement of parts; change in color, shape, texture, temperature).
2.1 Demonstrate an increased awareness that objects and materials can change in various ways. Explore and describe in greater detail changes in objects and materials (rearrangement of parts; change in color, shape, texture, form, and temperature).
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
S 4.1 Recognizes physical properties of objects and materials
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
S 1.2 Makes predictions and describes outcomes
LL 6.1 Participates in conversations
LL 5.2 Listens for understanding and responds appropriately
SE 3.4 Initiates learning
2.2 Observe and describe the motion of objects (in terms of speed, direction, the way things move), and explore the effect of own actions (e.g., pushing, pulling, rolling, dropping) on making objects move.
2.2 Demonstrate an increased ability to observe and describe in greater detail the motion of objects (in terms of speed, direction, the way things move), and to explore the effects of own actions on the motion of objects, including changes in speed and direction.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
S 4.1 Recognizes physical properties of objects and materials
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
S 1.2 Makes predictions and describes outcomes
SE 3.4 Initiates learning
Life Sciences
1.0 Properties and Charactics of Living Things
1.1 Identify characteristics of a variety of animals and plants, including appearance (inside and outside) and behavior, and begin to categorize them.
1.1 Identify characteristics of a greater variety of animals and plants and demonstrate an increased ability to categorize them.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
S 3.1 Understands characteristics of living things
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
S 1.2 Makes predictions and describes outcomes
SE 3.4 Initiates learning
M 2.2 Classifies, sorts, and charts data
M 4.1 Compares and orders
1.2 Begin to indicate knowledge of body parts and processes (e.g., eating, sleeping, breathing, walking) in humans and other animals.
1.2 Indicate greater knowledge of body parts and processes (e.g., eating, sleeping, breathing, walking) in humans and other animals.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
S 3.1 Understands characteristics of living things
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
S 1.2 Makes predictions and describes outcomes
SE 3.4 Initiates learning
1.3 Identify the habitats of people and familiar animals and plants in the environment and begin to realize that living things have habitats in different environments.
1.3 Recognize that living things have habitats in different environments suited to their unique needs.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
S 3.1 Understands characteristics of living things
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
S 1.2 Makes predictions and describes outcomes
SE 3.4 Initiates learning
1.4 Indicate knowledge of the difference between animate objects (animals, people) and inanimate objects. For example, expect animate objects to initiate movement and to have different insides than inanimate objects.
1.4 Indicate knowledge of the difference between animate and inanimate objects, providing greater detail, and recognize that only animals and plants undergo biological processes such as growth, illness, healing, and dying.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
S 3.1 Understands characteristics of living things
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
S 1.2 Makes predictions and describes outcomes
SE 3.4 Initiates learning
2.0 Changes in Living Things
2.1 Observe and explore growth and changes in humans, animals, and plants and demonstrate an understanding that living things change over time in size and other capacities as they grow.
2.1 Observe and explore growth in humans, animals, and plants and demonstrate an increased understanding that living things change as they grow and go through transformations related to the life cycle (for example, from a caterpillar to butterfly).
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
S 3.1 Understands characteristics of living things
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
S 1.2 Makes predictions and describes outcomes
SE 3.4 Initiates learning
2.2 Recognize that animals and plants require care and begin to associate feeding and watering with the growth of humans, animals, and plants.
2.2 Develop a greater understanding of the basic needs of humans, animals, and plants (e.g., food water, sunshine, shelter).
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
S 3.1 Understands characteristics of living things
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
S 1.2 Makes predictions and describes outcomes
SE 3.4 Initiates learning
Earth Sciences
1.0 Properties and Characteristics of Earth Materials and Objects
1.1 Investigate characteristics (size, weight, shape, color, texture) of earth materials such as sand, rocks, soil, water, and air.
1.1 Demonstrate increased ability to investigate and compare characteristics (size, weight, shape, color, texture) of earth materials such as sand, rocks, soil, water, and air.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
S 2.1 Identifies characteristics of Earth’s environment
SE 3.4 Initiates learning
2.0 Changes in the Earth
2.1 Observe and describe natural objects in the sky (sun, moon, stars, clouds) and how they appear to move and change.
2.1 Demonstrate an increased ability to observe and describe natural objects in the sky and to notice patterns of movement and apparent changes in the sun and the moon.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
S 2.1 Identifies characteristics of Earth’s environment
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
2.2 Notice and describe changes in weather.
2.2 Demonstrate an increased ability to observe, describe, and discuss changes in weather.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
S 2.1 Identifies characteristics of Earth’s environment
LL 6.1 Participates in conversations
LL 5.2 Listens for understanding and responds appropriately
2.3 Begin to notice the effects of weather and seasonal changes on their own lives and on plants and animals.
2.3 Demonstrate an increased ability to notice and describe the effects of weather and seasonal changes on their own lives and on plants and animals.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
S 2.1 Identifies characteristics of Earth’s environment
S 3.1 Understands characteristics of living thing
2.4 Develop awareness of the importance of caring for and respecting the environment and participate in activities related to its care.
2.4 Demonstrate an increased awareness and the ability to discuss in simple terms how to care for the environment, and participate in activities related to its care.
Learning Box Preschool Standard: Ages 3-5
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
S 2.1 Identifies characteristics of Earth’s environment
S 3.1 Understands characteristics of living things
SS 4.3 Shows concern for the environment
LL 6.1 Participates in conversations
LL 5.2 Listens for understanding and responds appropriately