KDIs

A. Approaches to Learning.

• Initiative: Children express initiative
• Problem solving: Children solve problems encountered in exploration and play
• Self-help: Children do things for themselves

B. Social and Emotional Development

• Distinguishing self and others: Children distinguish themselves from others.
• Attachment: Children form an attachment to a primary caregiver.
• Relationships with adults: Children build relationships with other adults.
• Relationships with peers: Children build relationships with peers
• Emotions: Children express emotions
• Empathy: Children show empathy toward the feelings and needs of others.
• Playing with others: Children play with others.
• Group participation: Children participate in group routines.

C. Physical Development and Health

• Moving parts of the body: Children move parts of the body (turning head, grasping, kicking).
• Moving the whole body: Children move the whole body (rolling, crawling, cruising, walking, running, balancing).
• Moving with objects: Children move with objects.
• Steady beat: Children feel and experience steady beat.

D. Communication, Language, and Literacy

• Listening and responding: Children listen and respond.
• Nonverbal communication: Children communicate nonverbally.
• Two-way communication: Children participate in two-way communication.
• Speaking: Children speak.
• Exploring print: Children explore picture books and magazines.
• Enjoying language: Children enjoy stories, rhymes, and songs.

E. Cognitive Development

• Exploring objects: Children explore objects with their hands, feet, mouth, eyes, ears, and nose.
• Object permanence: Children discover object permanence.
• Exploring same and different: Children explore and notice how things are the same or different.
• Exploring more: Children experience “more.”
• One-to-one correspondence: Children experience one-to-one correspondence.
• Number: Children experience the number of things
• Locating objects: Children explore and notice the location of objects.
• Filling and emptying: Children fill and empty, put in and take out.
• Taking apart and putting together: Children take things apart and fit them together.
• Seeing from different viewpoints: Children observe people and things from various perspectives.
• Anticipating events: Children anticipate familiar events.
• Time intervals: Children notice the beginning and ending of time intervals.
• Speed: Children experience “fast” and “slow.”
• Cause and effect: Children repeat an action to make something happen again, experience cause and effect.

F. Creative Arts

• Imitating and pretending: Children imitate and pretend
• Exploring art materials: Children explore building and art materials.
• Identifying visual images: Children respond to and identify pictures and photographs.
• Listening to music: Children listen to music.
• Responding to music: Children respond to music.
• Sounds: Children explore and imitate sounds.
• Vocal pitch: Children explore vocal pitch sounds.