| Colorado Building Blocks | Preschool Academic Standards | Teaching Strategies GOLD | HighScope COR | Head Start Child Development & Early Learning Framework |
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Physical Health and Development Children engage in play as a means to understand healthy behavior and develop their physical bodies. a - Participate in games, outdoor play and other forms of play that enhance physical fitness. |
Health and Physical Education Physical and Personal Wellness 1 - Recognize the positive feelings experienced during and after physical activity a - Participate in activities that increase the heart rate Health and Physical Education Physical and Personal Wellness 1 - Recognize the positive feelings experienced during and after physical activity b - Participate in activities that require stretching the muscles |
Social Studies 29 - Demonstrates knowledge about self - - Social Studies 29 - Demonstrates knowledge about self - - |
Movement and Music L - Moving in various ways 2 - Child runs, marches, gallops, or jumps. |
Physical Development & Health Health Knowledge and Practice: The understanding of healthy and safe habits and practicing healthy habits. Participates in structured and unstructured physical activities. Physical Development & Health Health Knowledge and Practice: The understanding of healthy and safe habits and practicing healthy habits. Participates in structured and unstructured physical activities. |
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Physical Health and Development Children engage in play as a means to understand healthy behavior and develop their physical bodies. b - Use their sesnse to explore materials and experience activities. |
Dance Create, Compose and Choreograph 1 - Translate simple ideas and stories into movement d - Use sensory stimuli and real-life situations as an impetus for moving and creating original work |
The Arts 35 - Explores dance and movement concepts - - |
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Logic & Reasoning Symbolic Representation: The use of symbols or objects to represent something else. Represents people, places, or things through drawings, movement, and three-dimensional objects. |
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Physical Health and Development Children engage in play as a means to understand healthy behavior and develop their physical bodies. c - Begin to use health and safety practicies. |
Health and Physical Education Physical and Personal Wellness 1 - Recognize the positive feelings experienced during and after physical activity c - Begin to understand how daily activity and healthy behavior promote overall personal health and safety |
Social-Emotional 1 - Regulates own emotions and behaviors c - Takes care of own needs appropriately 6 - Demonstrates confidence in meeting own needs |
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Physical Development & Health Health Knowledge and Practice: The understanding of healthy and safe habits and practicing healthy habits. Communicates an understanding of the importance of health and safety routines and rules. |
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Physical Health and Development Children engage in play as a means to understand healthy behavior and develop their physical bodies. d - Initiate activities that challenge their bodies in new ways. |
Health and Physical Education Movement Competence and Understanding in Physical Education 2 - Demonstrate balance a - Explore balancing on different body parts at different levels, becoming “like” a statue while making symmetrical and nonsymmetrical shapes Health and Physical Education Movement Competence and Understanding in Physical Education 2 - Demonstrate balance b - Demonstrate the relationship of under, over, behind, next to, through, right, left, up, down, forward, backward, and in front of by using the body and an object. Dance Movement, Technique, and Peformace 1 - Demonstrate simple phrases of movement in time and space a - Practice how to move with action movements to action words (movement vocabulary) using simple non-locomotor body actions such as bend, stretch, twist, turn, shake, and stretch, and simple locomotor body actions such as travel, jump, run, hop, and roll |
Physical 5 - Demonstrates balancing skills - 8 - Sustains balance during complex movement experiences Physical 6 - Demonstrates gross-motor manipulative skills - 8 - Manipulates balls or similar objects with a full range of motion Mathematics 21 - Explores and describes spatial relationships and shapes a - Understands spatial relationships 6 - Uses and responds appropriately to positional words indicating location, direction, and distance The Arts 35 - Explores dance and movement concepts - - |
Movement and Music O - Moving to music 3 - Child names a movement and engages in it to music. Mathematics and Science CC - Identifying position and direction 1 - Child moves or places an object as requested. |
Physical Development & Health Gross Motor Skills: The control of large muscles for movement, navigation, and balance. Develops motor control and balance for a range of physical activities, such as walking, propelling a wheelchair or mobility device, skipping, running, climbing, and hopping. Physical Development & Health Gross Motor Skills: The control of large muscles for movement, navigation, and balance. Develops motor control and balance for a range of physical activities, such as walking, propelling a wheelchair or mobility device, skipping, running, climbing, and hopping. Physical Development & Health Gross Motor Skills: The control of large muscles for movement, navigation, and balance. Understands movement concepts, such as control of the body, how the body moves (such as an awareness of space and directionality), and that the body can move independently or in coordination with other objects. |
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Physical Health and Development Children increasingly move their bodies in ways that demonstrate control, balance and coordination. a - Demonstrate increasing strength and stamina in movement activities. |
Health and Physical Education Physical and Personal Wellness 1 - Recognize the positive feelings experienced during and after physical activity a - Participate in activities that increase the heart rate |
Social Studies 29 - Demonstrates knowledge about self - - |
Movement and Music L - Moving in various ways 2 - Child runs, marches, gallops, or jumps. |
Physical Development & Health Health Knowledge and Practice: The understanding of healthy and safe habits and practicing healthy habits. Participates in structured and unstructured physical activities. |
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Physical Health and Development Children increasingly move their bodies in ways that demonstrate control, balance and coordination. b - Demonstrate body and space awareness to move and stop with control over speed and direction. |
Health and Physical Education Movement Competence and Understanding in Physical Education 1 - Travel in a variety of directions using basic locomotor skills, and demonstrate understanding of personal and general space a - Move safely in a large group without bumping into others or falling while using locomotor skills Health and Physical Education Movement Competence and Understanding in Physical Education 1 - Travel in a variety of directions using basic locomotor skills, and demonstrate understanding of personal and general space b - Travel forward and sideways while changing directions quickly in response to a signal Health and Physical Education Prevention and Risk Management 1 - Apply safe practices, rules, and procedures b - Participate in activity without colliding into other students Dance Movement, Technique, and Peformace 1 - Demonstrate simple phrases of movement in time and space b - Explore movement in personal and general space using shape, size, level, direction, stillness, and transference of weight (stepping) |
Physical 4 - Demonstrates traveling skills - 6 - Moves purposefully from place to place with control Physical 4 - Demonstrates traveling skills - 6 - Moves purposefully from place to place with control Physical 4 - Demonstrates traveling skills - 6 - Moves purposefully from place to place with control The Arts 35 - Explores dance and movement concepts - - |
Movement and Music L - Moving in various ways 5 - Child hops, skips, or twirls around and stops without falling. |
Physical Development & Health Gross Motor Skills: The control of large muscles for movement, navigation, and balance. Develops motor control and balance for a range of physical activities, such as walking, propelling a wheelchair or mobility device, skipping, running, climbing, and hopping. Physical Development & Health Gross Motor Skills: The control of large muscles for movement, navigation, and balance. Understands movement concepts, such as control of the body, how the body moves (such as an awareness of space and directionality), and that the body can move independently or in coordination with other objects. Physical Development & Health Gross Motor Skills: The control of large muscles for movement, navigation, and balance. Understands movement concepts, such as control of the body, how the body moves (such as an awareness of space and directionality), and that the body can move independently or in coordination with other objects. Physical Development & Health Gross Motor Skills: The control of large muscles for movement, navigation, and balance. Understands movement concepts, such as control of the body, how the body moves (such as an awareness of space and directionality), and that the body can move independently or in coordination with other objects. |
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Physical Health and Development Children increasingly move their bodies in ways that demonstrate control, balance and coordination. c - Develop coordination and balance with a variety of playground equipment. |
Health and Physical Education Movement Competence and Understanding in Physical Education 1 - Travel in a variety of directions using basic locomotor skills, and demonstrate understanding of personal and general space c - Jump over a stationary rope several times in succession using forward-and-back and side-to-side movement patterns Health and Physical Education Movement Competence and Understanding in Physical Education 2 - Demonstrate balance a - Explore balancing on different body parts at different levels, becoming “like” a statue while making symmetrical and nonsymmetrical shapes |
Physical 4 - Demonstrates traveling skills - 6 - Moves purposefully from place to place with control Physical 5 - Demonstrates balancing skills - 8 - Sustains balance during complex movement experiences |
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Physical Development & Health Gross Motor Skills: The control of large muscles for movement, navigation, and balance. Develops motor control and balance for a range of physical activities, such as walking, propelling a wheelchair or mobility device, skipping, running, climbing, and hopping. Physical Development & Health Gross Motor Skills: The control of large muscles for movement, navigation, and balance. Develops motor control and balance for a range of physical activities, such as walking, propelling a wheelchair or mobility device, skipping, running, climbing, and hopping. |
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Physical Health and Development Children use their fingers and hands in ways that develop hand-eye coordination, strength, control and object manipulation. a - Demonstrate increasing strength and stamina to perform fine motor tasks. |
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Physical Health and Development Children use their fingers and hands in ways that develop hand-eye coordination, strength, control and object manipulation. b - Use hand-eye coordination to perform fine motor tasks with a variety of manipulative materials. |
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Physical Health and Development Children use their fingers and hands in ways that develop hand-eye coordination, strength, control and object manipulation. c - Show increased awareness and control of tools for various learning activities. |
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Physical Health and Development Children begin to understand how daily activity and helathy behavior promote overall personal health and safety. a - Demonstrate safety awareness when purposefully using materials. |
Health and Physical Education Prevention and Risk Management 1 - Apply safe practices, rules, and procedures a - Demonstrate safety awareness when purposefully using materials |
Social-Emotional 1 - Regulates own emotions and behaviors b - Follows limits and expectations 6 - Manages classroom rules, routines, and transitions with occasional reminders |
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Physical Development & Health Health Knowledge and Practice: The understanding of healthy and safe habits and practicing healthy habits. Follows basic health and safety rules and responds appropriately to harmful or unsafe situations. |
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Physical Health and Development Children begin to understand how daily activity and helathy behavior promote overall personal health and safety. b - Demonstrate the increasing ability to perform self-care skills independently when eating, dressing, toileting and washing hands. |
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Physical Health and Development Children begin to understand how daily activity and helathy behavior promote overall personal health and safety. c - Shows care for personal belongings. |
Health and Physical Education Prevention and Risk Management 1 - Apply safe practices, rules, and procedures c - Identify proper footwear for physical education |
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Physical Health and Development Children begin to understand how daily activity and helathy behavior promote overall personal health and safety. d - Begin to understand that some foods have nutritional value. |
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Physical Health and Development Children increase their understanding of the use of their eyes, ears, fingers, nose and mouth and how the senses work together. a - Discriminate between a variety of sights, smells, sounds, textures and tastes. |
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Physical Health and Development Children increase their understanding of the use of their eyes, ears, fingers, nose and mouth and how the senses work together. b - Explore and learn to tolerate a wide variety of sensory input. |
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Physical Health and Development Children increase their understanding of the use of their eyes, ears, fingers, nose and mouth and how the senses work together. c - Combine and use different senses depending on the activity. |
Health and Physical Education Movement Competence and Understanding in Physical Education 1 - Travel in a variety of directions using basic locomotor skills, and demonstrate understanding of personal and general space e - Perform movements to the rhythm of music Dance Create, Compose and Choreograph 1 - Translate simple ideas and stories into movement d - Use sensory stimuli and real-life situations as an impetus for moving and creating original work |
The Arts 35 - Explores dance and movement concepts - - The Arts 35 - Explores dance and movement concepts - - |
Movement and Music O - Moving to music 1 - Child moves to music. |
Logic & Reasoning Symbolic Representation: The use of symbols or objects to represent something else. Represents people, places, or things through drawings, movement, and three-dimensional objects. Creative Arts Expression Creative Movement & Dance: The use of the body to move to music and express oneself. Moves to different patterns of beat and rhythm in music. |