•• how games and toys are   invented/created

•• what our grandparents played with

Learning Outcomes: Tell their own stories using words, gestures, and objects/artifacts.
understand simple questions and respond with actions or words

VISUAL LANGUAGE_ VIEWING AND PRESENTING
Conceptual Undertsandings: Visual language is all around us.
Learning Outcomes: attend to visual information
showing understanding through play, gestures, facial expression
observe visual cues that indicate context; show
understanding by matching pictures with context

WRITTEN LANGUAGE_ READING
Conceptual Undertsandings: Print conveys meaning.
Learning Outcomes:
- Enjoy listening to stories.
- Make connections to their own experience when 
listening to or “reading” texts.
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WRITTEN LANGUAGE_ WRITING
Conceptual Undertsandings: People write to tell about their experiences, ideas and feelings.
Learning Outcomes: 
- Show curiosity and ask questions about written 
language.
- Begin to discriminate between letters/characters, numbers and symbols.
 

Learning continuum for shape and space: Conceptual Understandings: Shapes can be described and organized according to their properties.
Learning Outcomes: Understand that 2D and 3D shapes have characteristics that can be described and compared.
Learning continuum for pattern and function:
Conceptual Understandings:
Patterns repeat and grow.
Learning outcomes:
describe patterns in various ways, for example, using words, drawings, symbols, materials, actions, numbers.
Learning continuum for number:
Conceptual Understandings:
Numbers can be used in many ways for different purposes in the real world.
Learning outcomes:
understand that, for a set of objects, the number name of the last object counted describes the quantity of the
whole set.
recognize groups of zero to five objects without counting (subitizing)