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competency goal statements(1-7)

1. Safe:provides a safe environment to prevent and reduce injuries.

2. Healthy:promotes good health and nutrition and provides an environment that contributes to the prevention of illness.

3. Learning Environment:uses space, relationships, materials, and routines as resources for constructing an interesting, secure, and enjoyable environment that encourages and fosters trust, play, exploration, interaction, and learning.

4. Physical: provides a variety of developmentally appropriate equipment, learning experiences, and teaching strategies promote the physical development (fine motor and gross motor) of children.

5. Cognitive:provides activities and opportunities that encourage curiosity, exploration, and problem solving appropriate to the development levels of each child.

6. Communication:actively communicates with children and provides opportunities and support for children to understand, acquire, and use verbal and nonverbal means of communicating thoughts and feelings.

7. Creative: provides opportunities that stimulate children to play with sound, rhythm, language, materials, space and ideas in individual ways and to express their creative abilities.

date:12/02

time:11:00am

group:3-5 year olds

activity:matching socks

developmental goals:to promote classification through matching, to stimulate visual discrimination

learning objective:Using pairs of socks and a basket, the children will practice matching.

materials:Pairs of socks, Basket

motivation/introduction:the children will use a variety of style and colored socks to practice matching

procedure:1. Child takes all the socks out of the basket and places them on the table.

2. Ask the child, “What color are the socks?”

3. Child will identify the sock colors.

4. Tell the child, “Each sock has another that looks exactly the same. Find the pairs and put them together.”

5. When child finds a pair, he may put the matched socks back into the basket....