SOCIAL & EMOTIONAL SKILLS

• Show me how to get along with others.
• Give me opportunities to make new friends.
• Encourage me to speak in complete sentences.
• Help me learn to follow simple routines.
• Provide times for me to be separated from you.
• Give me opportunities to take turns.
• Help me learn to maintain self-control.
• Show me how to practice good manners.
• Encourage me to listen to others without interrupting.
• Help me learn empathy for others.
• Help me learn that my actions have consequences.
• Give me opportunities to work independently.
• Give me opportunities to be responsible.
• Be sure I know words to express how I feel.

SAFETY & SELF-HELP SKILLS

• Teach me to manage my own bathroom needs.
• Teach me the names of my body parts.
• Allow me to dress myself.
• Teach me my full name, age, phone number and parents names.
• Show me how to care for my own belongings.
• Encourage me to clean up after myself.
• Expect me to put away my own toys.

COORDINATION SKILLS (Both large and small muscle control)

• Give me opportunities to run, jump, hop and march.
• Let me practice walking in a straight line.
• Play ball with me.
• Let me build with blocks.
• Let me practice opening and closing things.
• Show me how to fasten clothing.
• Let me practice writing my name and other letters.
• Give me opportunities to cut out simple shapes.
• Let me paste objects on paper.

PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS – SCIENCE DISCOVERY

• Help me learn to recognize likes and differences.
• Encourage my curiosity about the world.
• Help me notice cause and effects.
• Encourage me to create collections.
• Encourage me to observe nature.
• Give me opportunities to experiment, make predictions and deductions.
• Let me experience things using all my five senses.
• Give me opportunities to help prepare snacks.
• Help me learn to recognize basic colors.
• Give me opportunities to weight objects.
• Help me understand relationships between things.
• Provide opportunities to learn spatial relationships; such as above, below and next to.

PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS – MATH

• Help me discover things that are part and things that are whole.
• Help me learn to recognize basic shapes.
• Provide me opportunities to sort and match objects by color, size and shape.
• Point out groups to me in sets of two, three, four and five.
• Play counting games with me so I can learn to count to ten.
• Point out general times of the day, such as; “It’s 8 o’clock, time for bed”.
• Show me ways to measure things, such as; with measuring spoons or rulers.
• Help me understand positions, such as; First, Second and Third.
• Give me opportunities to follow a pattern and put things in order.
• Give me puzzles to solve with 4 – 12 pieces
• Help me learn to estimate.

CREATIVITY SKILLS

• Give me the opportunity and the materials to express myself through art, music, dance, cooking, construction and drama.
• Help me learn to make choices.
• Encourage invention and experimentation.
• Let me pretend and imagine.
• Provide opportunities to ponder and wonder.
• Encourage my interests and talents.

LANGUAGE SKILLS (Reading Readiness Skills)

• Provide opportunities for me to learn to recognize rhyming sounds and words.
• Help me to retell simple stories in sequence.
• Encourage me to make up my own stories.
• Demonstrate how I should read from left to right.
• Teach me the letters of the alphabet.
• Teach me simple nursery rhymes, songs and stories.
• Teach me the sounds of the letters in my name.
• Help me identify the beginning sound of some words.
• Encourage me to remember some beginning sight words.
• Point out opposite words.
• Encourage me to “read” picture books.
• Be sure that I understand common basic words.