Learning Box Preschool Curriculum Alignment with Florida Early Learning and Development For Four-Year-Olds (2011)
Physical Development
A. Health and Wellness
1. Shows characteristics of good health to facilitate learning
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PD 1.3 Makes healthy food choices
PD 1.1 Practices daily self-care
2. Uses eye-hand coordination to perform fine motor tasks
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PD 3.3 Exhibits hand-eye coordination
3. Demonstrates auditory ability to facilitate learning and healthy growth and development
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LL 5.2 Listens for understanding and responds appropriately
4. Demonstrates characteristics of good oral health and performs oral hygiene routines
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PD 1.3 Makes healthy food choices
PD 1.1 Practices daily self-care
SE 3.4 Initiates learning
5. Shows familiarity with health care providers in relation to health and wellness
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SS 3.1 Understands roles and occupations in society
6. Demonstrates self-control, interpersonal, and social skills in relation to mental health
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SE 2.1 Makes positive social connections
SE 3.5 Manages emotions appropriately
AL 4.2 Displays a positive attitude
7. Shows basic physical needs are met
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SE 1.1 Aware of thoughts, needs, and feelings or self and others
8. Actively takes part in basic health and safety routines
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PD 1.2 Comprehends and applies safety rules
9. Participates in physical fitness activities
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PD 4.1 Actively participates
PD 4.2 Builds muscular strength and/or cardiovascular endurance
PD 2.2 Uses locomotor skills
PD 3.1 Controls small muscle movement
10. Makes healthy food choices
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PD 1.3 Makes healthy food choices
B. Self-Help
1. Actively participates in self-care
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PD 1.1 Practices daily self-care
2. Helps carry out classroom routines
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SE 3.3 Cooperates within shared space
SE 2.2 Cooperates
SE 3.5 Accepts responsibility
SE 3.4 Initiates learning
C. Gross Motor Development
1. Demonstrates increasing motor control and balance
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PD 2.2 Uses locomotor skills
PD 3.1 Controls small muscle movement
PD 2.1 Displays balance and coordination
2. Demonstrates the ability to combine movements for gross motor skills
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PD 2.2 Uses locomotor skills
PD 3.1 Controls small muscle movement
PD 2.1 Displays balance and coordination
D. Fine Motor Development
1. Demonstrates increasing control of small motor muscles to perform simple tasks
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PD 3.1 Controls small muscle movement
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
2. Uses eye-hand coordination to perform fine motor tasks
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PD 3.3 Exhibits hand-eye coordination
3. Shows beginning control of writing by using various drawing and art tools with increasing coordination
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PD 3.1 Controls small muscle movement
PD 3.2 Manipulates varied objects
Approaches to Learning Standards
A. Eagerness and Curiosity
1. Shows curiosity and is eager to learn new things and have new experiences
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AL 1.1 Uses imagination and creativity to create new ideas or extend understanding
AL 3.1 Demonstrates a desire to learn
SE 3.4 Initiates learning
B. Persistence
1. Attends to tasks for a brief period and seeks help when needed
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AL 3.2 Asks questions and problem solves
AL 2.1 Ability to participate for longer periods of time
SE 2.1 Makes positive social connections
C. Creativity
1. Approaches daily activities with creativity
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AL 1.1 Uses imagination and creativity to create new ideas or extend understanding
D. Planning and Reflection
1. Shows initial signs of planning and learning from their experiences
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AL 1.1 Uses imagination and creativity to create new ideas or extend understanding
AL 3.1 Demonstrates a desire to learn
SE 3.4 Initiates learning
Social and Emotional Development Standards
A. Self-Regulation
1. Demonstrates growing autonomy and independence, indicated by increasing self-care and willing participation in daily routines, when given a consistent and predictable environment
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PD 1.1 Practices daily self-care
SE 1.2 Demonstrates confidence
SE 3.2 Shows flexibility within routines
2. Begins to recognize, then internally manage and regulate, the expression of emotions both positive and negative, with teacher support and multiple experiences over time
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SE 4.1 Manages emotions appropriately
AL 4.1 Accepts changes and failures
SE 3.3 Cooperates within shared space
Life/Adaptive
1. Follows simple rules, agreements, and familiar routines with teacher support
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SE 3.3 Cooperates within shared space
SS 1.1 Identifies personal and family roles within their home and community
SS 2.1 Understand citizenship and responsibilities
2. Begins to use materials with increasing care and safety
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PD 1.2 Comprehends and applies safety rules
3. Adapts to transitions with increasing independence
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SE 1.2 Demonstrates confidence
SE 3.2 Shows flexibility within routines
SE 3.5 Accepts responsibility
B. Relationships
a. Self
1. Shows increasing confidence in their own abilities
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SE 1.2 Demonstrates confidence
b. Peers
1. Interacts with and develops positive relationship with peers
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SE 2.1 Makes positive social connections
2. Develops special friendships
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SE 2.1 Makes positive social connections
SE 1.1 Aware of thoughts, needs, and feelings of self and others
3. Shows care and concern for others
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SE 1.1 Aware of thoughts, needs, and feelings of self and others
SE 2.3 Shows empathy for others
c. Adults
1. Develops positive relationships and interacts comfortably with familiar adults
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SE 2.1 Makes positive social connections
SE 1.1 Aware of thoughts, needs, and feelings of self and others
A. Social Problem Solving
1. Shows developing ability to solve social problems with support from familiar adults
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AL 3.2 Asks questions and problem solves
SE 2.1 Makes positive social connections
SE 1.1 Aware of thoughts, needs, and feelings of self and others
2. Develops an initial understanding of bullying, with support from familiar adults
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AL 3.2 Asks questions and problem solves
SE 2.1 Makes positive social connections
SE 1.1 Aware of thoughts, needs, and feelings of self and others
Language, Communication, and Emergent Literacy Standards
A. Listening and Understanding
1. Increases knowledge through listening
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LL 5.2 Listens for understanding and responds appropriately
2. Follows multi-step directions. Benchmark a: Child achieves mastery of two-step directions and usually follows three-step directions, with teacher support and multiple experiences over time.
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SE 3.5 Accepts responsibility
AL 5.3 Follows directions
B. Speaking
1. Speech is understood by both a familiar and an unfamiliar peer or adult Benchmark a: Child’s speech is understood by both a familiar and an unfamiliar adult.
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LL 6.1 Communicates in conversations
LL 6.2 Shares stories and/or information
C. Vocabulary
1. Shows an understanding of words and their meanings
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LL 3.1 Identifies letters and words
LL 3.2 Understands that letters and words have meaning
LL 4.1 Builds meaning of words
2. Shows increased vocabulary to describe many objects, actions, and events
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LL 3.1 Identifies letters and words
LL 3.2 Understands that letters and words have meaning
LL 4.1 Builds meaning of words
D. Sentences and Structure
1. Uses age-appropriate grammar in conversations and increasingly complex phrases and sentences
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LL 4.2 Uses age appropriate grammar
LL 6.3 Speaks in sentences
2. Connects phrases and sentences to build ideas
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LL 6.3 Speaks in sentences
E. Conversation
1.Uses language to express needs and feelings, share experiences, predict outcomes, and resolve problems
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LL 6.1 Communicates in conversations
LL 6.2 Shares stories and/or information
2.Initiates, ask questions, and responds to adults and peers in a variety of settings
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AL 3.2 Asks questions and problem solves
SE 2.1 Makes positive social connections
3.Uses appropriate language and style for context
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LL 4.2 Uses age appropriate grammar
LL 6.3 Speaks in sentences
LL 6.1 Communicates in conversations
LL 6.2 Shares stories and/or information
F. Emergent Reading
1. Shows motivation for reading
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LL 7.1 Enjoys reading
LL 7.2 Participates in reading
2. Shows age-appropriate phonological awareness
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LL 1.1 Demonstrates understanding of sounds, rhyme and patterns in words
3.Shows alphabetic knowledge
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LL 1.1 Demonstrates understanding of sounds, rhyme and patterns in words
LL 3.1 Identifies letters and words
4.Demonstrates comprehension of text read aloud
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LL 5.1 Responds to text
LL 5.2 Listens for understanding and responds appropriately
LL 5.3 Compare and contrast
LL 5.4 Makes predictions
G. Emergent Writing
1. Shows motivation to engage in written expression
1. Uses scribbling, letter-like shapes, and letters that are clearly different from drawing to represent thoughts and ideas
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LL 8.1 Write letters, words, and name
LL 8.2 Aware that words can be written down and read
2. Demonstrates age-appropriate ability to write letters
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LL 8.1 Write letters, words, and name
3. Demonstrates knowledge of purposes, functions, and structure of written composition
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LL 8.2 Aware that words can be written down and read
LL 3.2 Understands that letters and words have meaning
Mathematical Thinking
Number Sense
1. Demonstrates understanding of one-to-one correspondence
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M 1.1 Understands and identifies numbers and quantities
M 1.2 Identifies numbers and relationships
2. Shows understanding of how to count and construct sets
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M 1.1 Understands and identifies numbers and quantities
M 1.2 Identifies numbers and relationships
M 4.1 Compares and orders
3. Shows understanding by participating in the comparison of quantities
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M 1.1 Understands and identifies numbers and quantities
M 1.2 Identifies numbers and relationships
M 4.1 Compares and orders
4. Assigns and relates numerical representations among numerals (written), sets of objects, and number names (spoken) from zero to 10
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M 1.1 Understands and identifies numbers and quantities
M 1.2 Identifies numbers and relationships
M 4.1 Compares and orders
Counts and knows the sequence of number names (spoken)
Compares and orders
6. Shows understanding of and uses appropriate terms to describe ordinal positions
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M 1.1 Understands and identifies numbers and quantities
M 1.2 Identifies numbers and relationships
M 4.1 Compares and orders
Number and Operations
1.Shows understanding of how to combine sets and remove from a concrete set of objects (receptive knowledge)
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M 1.1 Understands and identifies numbers and quantities
M 1.2 Identifies numbers and relationships
M 4.1 Compares and orders
M 2.2 Classifies, sorts, and charts data
1.Shows understanding of addition and subtraction using a concrete set of objects (expressive knowledge) or story problems found in everyday classroom.
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M 1.1 Understands and identifies numbers and quantities
M 1.2 Identifies numbers and relationships
M 5.1 Solves mathematical problems
LL 6.2 Shares stories and/or information
1. Begins to develop an understanding of separating a set into a maximum of four parts, with teacher support and multiple experiences over time c. Patterns and Seriation
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M 2.1 Follows and/or creates simple patterns
M 4.1 Compares and orders
M 2.2 Classifies, sorts, and charts data
1. Understands characteristics of patterns and non-patterns and begins to reproduce them with at least two elements (e.g., red/blue, red/blue versus a non-pattern like a rainbow)
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M 2.1 Follows and/or creates simple patterns
2. Sorts, orders, compares, and describes objects according characteristics or attribute(s) (seriation)
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M 4.1 Compares and orders
M 2.2 Classifies, sorts, and charts data
Geometry
1. Understands various two-dimensional shapes, including circle, triangle, square, rectangle, oval, and other less common shapes (e.g., trapezoid, rhombus)
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M 3.1 Identifies shapes
2.Shows understanding that two-dimensional shapes are equivalent (remain the same) in different orientations
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M 3.1 Identifies shapes
M 3.2 Comprehends positions in space
3.Understands various three-dimensional shapes, including sphere, cube, cone, and other less common shapes (e.g., cylinder, pyramid)
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M 3.1 Identifies shapes
4.Analyzes and constructs examples of simple symmetry and non-symmetry in two dimensions, using concrete objects.
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M 4.1 Compares and orders
LL 5.3 Compare and contrast
Spatial Relations
1. Shows understanding of spatial relationships and uses position words (e.g., above, below, next to, beside, on top of, inside, outside)
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M 3.2 Comprehends positions in space
2.Describes relative position from different perspectives (e.g., “I am on top of the climber and you are below me.”)
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M 3.2 Comprehends positions in space
3.Understands and can tell the difference between orientation terms (e.g., horizontal, diagonal, vertical)
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M 3.2 Comprehends positions in space
4.Uses directions to move through space and find places in space (e.g., obstacle courses, Simon Says, Mother May I?, hop scotch, giving simple directions)
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M 3.2 Comprehends positions in space
AL 5.3 Follows directions
Measurement
1. Engages in activities that explore measurement
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M 4.2 Measures and/or estimates
2.Compares continuous quantities using length, weight, and height
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M 4.2 Measures and/or estimates
3.Represents and analyzes data
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M 2.2 Classifies, sorts, and charts data
4.Child predicts the results of a data collection, with teacher support and multiple experiences over time
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M 2.2 Classifies, sorts, and charts data
LL 5.4 Makes predictions
Scientific Inquiry
a. Investigation and Inquiry
1. Demonstrates the use of simple tools and equipment for observing and investigating
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S 5.2 Investigates how things work
S 1.1 Engages in investigation and observation
2.Examines objects and makes comparisons
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S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
M 4.1 Compares and orders
LL 5.3 Compare and contrast
b. Physical Science
1. Explores the physical properties and creative use of objects or matter
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S 4.1 Recognizes physical properties of objects and materials
c. Life Science
1. Explores growth and change of living things
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S 3.1 Understands characteristics of living things
2.Identifies the characteristics of living things
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S 3.1 Understands characteristics of living things
3.Identifies the five senses and explores functions of each
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S 3.1 Understands characteristics of living things
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
d. Earth and Space
1. Explores the outdoor environment and begins to recognize changes (e.g., weather conditions) in the environment, with teacher support and multiple experiences over time
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S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
SS 2.1 Identifies characteristics of Earth’s environment
2.Discovers and explores objects (e.g., rocks, twigs, leaves, seashells) that are naturally found in the environment
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S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
SS 2.1 Identifies characteristics of Earth’s environment
e. Environmental Awareness
1. Demonstrates ongoing environmental awareness and responsibility (e.g., reduce, ` reuse, recycle), with teacher support and multiple experiences over time
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SS 4.3 Shows concern for the environment
SS 2.1 Understands citizenship and responsibilities
Social Studies
a. Individual Development and Identity
1. Begins to recognize and appreciate similarities and differences in people
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SS 1.2 Examines diversity, culture, and traditions
2.Begins to understand family characteristics, roles, and functions
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SS 1.1 Identifies personal and family roles in the home and community
3.Shows awareness and describes some social roles and jobs that people do
Learning Box Preschool Foundational Skills Ages 3- 5 Years Old SS 3.1 Understand roles and occupations in society
b. People, Places, and Environments
1. Demonstrates awareness of geographic thinking
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SS 4.1 Comprehends and compares characteristic of the local area
SS 4.2 Develops mapping skills
c. Technology and Our World
1. Shows awareness of technology and its impact on how people live
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S 5.1 Explores technology
d. Civic Ideals and Practices
1. Demonstrates awareness of group rules (civics)
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SS 2.1 Understands citizenship and responsibilities
2.Begins to understand and take on leadership roles
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SS 2.1 Understands citizenship and responsibilities
SE 3.5 Accepts responsibility
Creative Expression Through the Arts
a. Visual Arts
1. Explores visual arts
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CE 3.1 Communicates through visual art
S 1.1 Engages in observation and investigation
2. Creates visual arts to communicate an idea
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CE 3.1 Communicates through visual art
Discusses and responds to the feelings caused by an artwork
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LL 6.1 Participates in conversations
LL 6.2 Shares stories and/or information
CE 3.1 Communicates through visual art
b. Music
1. Explores music
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CE 1.1 Participates and enjoys music
2.Creates music to communicate an idea
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CE 1.1 Participates and enjoys music
3.Discusses and responds to the feelings caused by music
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CE 1.1 Participates and enjoys music
c. Creative Movement and Dance
1. Explores creative movement and dance
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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
2.Creates creative movement and dance to communicate an idea
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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
Discusses and responds to the feelings caused by creative movement and dance
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LL 6.1 Participates in conversations
LL 6.2 Shares stories and/or information
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
d. Dramatic Play and Theatre
1. Explores dramatic play and theatre
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CE 4.1 Participates in dramatic play
2.Creates dramatic play and theatre to communicate an idea
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CE 4.1 Participates in dramatic play
3.Discusses and responds to the feelings caused by dramatic play and theatre
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CE 4.1 Participates in dramatic play
LL 6.1 Participates in conversations
LL 6.2 Shares stories and/or information
Source: Florida Department of Education-Office of Early Learning
Florida Early Learning and Development For Four-Year-Olds (2011)