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LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION

-Uses age-appropriate vocabulary for listening and speaking

-Can use pictures to convey meaning

-Clearly expresses basic ideas' conveys what he want to do and where he wants to go

-Expresses needs and thoughts in complete sentences

-Retells stories in his own words while following a sequence of events

-Follows and participates in simple converstions

-Correctly performs two-step directions

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

-Understands the connection (and difference) between drawing and photographs and the actual objects they protray.

-Shows awareness of the world through his senses (wet and dry, smooth and rough, hard and soft, sweet and salty, loud and quiet etc)

-Identifies the eight basic colours,

red,orange,yellow,green,blue,purple,brown and black

--Represents ideas through drawings and/or words

-Identifies basic symbols in the environment(e.g. a stop sign)

                             Recognises printed letters and their sounds

-Recognises and name some letters of the alphabet

-Sees that words are made up of letters

-Recognises and names some letters of the alphabet

-Sees that words are made up of letters

-Recognises own first name when printed and is interested in printing name by himself

-Enjoys the fun of language sounds and rhythm when strung together in a poem,song

or whimsical alliterative sentence(shows phonemic awareness)

-Sings the alphabet

-Has emerging literacy skills, including an interest in the association of sounds with leters (phonics)

-Treats books with respect and understands that a book progresses from front to back.

                                        Shows an interest in shapes, numbers and their properties

-Identifies triangles, squares, circles and rectangles

-Recognises and shows an interest in simple geometric patterns

-Is beginning to see the connection between opposites (eg big and little) and similar pairs (eg big and large)

-Has beginning knowledge of spatial relationships (top, bottom, middle, left and right)

-Counts 1 to 10 and shows an interest in associating numerals to correct sets of objects

-Recognises in order the numbers 1 to 10

-Understands and demonstrates knowledge of 1:1 correspondence (eg If there was two girls  and each has a lollie pop, how many lollies pops is there)