Sense of Self - Expressing initiative, Distinguishing self from others, Solving problems encountered in exploration and play, and Doing things for one's self.
Social Relations - Forming an attachment to a primary caregiver, Building relationships with other adults, Building relationships with peers, Expressing emotions, Showing empathy toward the feelings and needs of others, and Playing with others.
Creative Representation - Imitating and pretending, Exploring building and art materials, and Responding to and identifying pictures and photographs.
Movement - Moving parts of the body (turning head, grasping, kicking), Moving the whole body (rolling, crawling, cruising, walking, running, balancing), Moving with objects and Feeling and experiencing steady beat.
Music - Listening to music, Responding to music, Exploring and imitating sound and Exploring vocal pitch sounds.
Communication and Language - Listening and responding, Communicating nonverbally, Participating in two-way communication, Speaking, Exploring picture books and magazines, and Enjoying stories, rhymes, and songs.
Exploring Objects - Exploring objects with one's hands, feet, mouth, eyes, ears, and nose , Discovering object permanence , and Exploring and noticing how things are the same or different.
Early Quantity and Number - Experiencing "more", Experiencing one-to-one correspondence, and Experiencing the number of things.
Space - Exploring and noticing the location of objects, Observing people and things from various perspectives, Filling and emptying, putting in and taking out, Taking things apart and fitting them together.
Time - Anticipating familiar events, Noticing the beginning and ending of time intervals, Experiencing "fast" and "slow", and Repeating an action to make something happen again: experiencing cause and effect.
Creative Representation - Recognizing objects by sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell , Imitating actions and sounds, Relating models, pictures, and photographs to real places and things, Pretending and role playing, Making models out of clay, blocks, and other materials and Drawing and painting.
Language and Literacy - Talking with others about personally meaningful experiences, Describing objects, events, and relations, Having fun with language: listening to stories and poems, making up stories and rhymes, Writing in various ways: drawing, scribbling, letterlike forms, invented spelling, conventional forms, Reading in various ways: reading storybooks, signs and symbols, one's own writing, and Dictating stories.
Initiative and Social Relations - Making and expressing choices, plans, and decisions, Solving problems encountered in play, Taking care of one's own needs, Expressing feelings in words, Participating in group routines, Being sensitive to the feelings, interests, and needs of others, Building relationships with children and adults, Creating and experiencing collaborative play and Dealing with social conflict.
Movement - Moving in nonlocomotor ways (anchored movement: bending, twisting, rocking, swinging one's arms, Moving in locomotor ways (nonanchored movement: running, jumping, hopping, skipping, marching, climbing), Moving with objects, Expressing creativity in movement, Describing movement, Acting upon movement directions, Feeling and expressing steady beat and Moving in sequences to a common beat.
Music - Moving to music, Exploring and identifying sounds, Exploring the singing voice, Developing melody, Singing songs, and Playing simple musical instruments.
Classification - Exploring and describing similarities, differences, and the attributes of things, Distinguishing and describing shapes, Sorting and matching, Using and describing something in several ways, Holding more than one attribute in mind at a time, Distinguishing between "some" and "all" and Describing characteristics something does not possess or what class it does not belong to.
Seriation - Comparing attributes (longer/shorter, bigger/smaller), Arranging several things one after another in a series or pattern and describing the relationships(big/bigger/biggest, red/blue/red/blue) and Fitting one ordered set of objects to another through trial and error (small cup—small saucer/medium cup—medium saucer/big cup—big saucer).
Number - Comparing the numbers of things in two sets to determine "more," "fewer," "same number", Arranging two sets of objects in one-to-one correspondence and Counting objects.
Space - Filling and emptying, Fitting things together and taking them apart, Changing the shape and arrangement of objects (wrapping, twisting, stretching, stacking, enclosing), Observing people, places, and things from different spatial viewpoints Experiencing and describing positions, directions, and distances in the play space, building, and neighborhood and Interpreting spatial relations in drawings, pictures, and photographs.
Time - Starting and stopping an action on signal, Experiencing and describing rates of movement, Experiencing and comparing time intervals and Anticipating, remembering, and describing sequences of events.
