Curriculum and Standards
Ohio Early Learning and Development Standards
Creative Curriculum for Family Child Care
Monthly "WE CAN" Statements
Embedded Standards
Social and Emotional Development
- We can identify emotions
- We can show our emotions in a respectful way
- We can learn our routine and prepare for changes
- We can be patient
- We can understand that our behavior (good or bad) will have rewards or consequences
- We can be proud of our work
- We can show teachers that we care
- We can have a conversation with a teacher
- We can play and work together with our friends
- We can show empathy when something bad happens to someone else
- We can be respectful to other living things
- We can feel comfortable with grownups that we know
Approaches Toward Learning
- We can try new things
- We can follow directions on our own
- We can use what we already know when we are learning
- We can keep our attention on what we are doing
- We can try again and again to get something right
- We can be creative with objects and materials
- We can pretend and come up with new ideas
- We can pretend play
- We can show people what we know in different ways
- We can tell others that we like their work
Language and Literacy
- We can understand long sentences
- We can ask what a new word means
- We can follow two-step directions
- We can talk to others to share and learn information
- We can talk so that others understand us
- We can talk about and describe things we know
- We can use pictures to add details to descriptions
- We can use the correct words in a sentence
- We can make real-life connections between words and their use
- We can listen to others and wait our turn to talk
- We can have a conversation with a friend
- We can listen to books being read aloud
- We can listen and participate in story time
- We can join in and read poems and rhymes
- We can hold and use a book the right way
- We can understand words
- We can add details to our pictures
- We can figure out what a new word means with the help of a book
- We can understand that words tell you something
Cognition and General Knowledge- Cognitive Skills
- We can talk about things that have happened and know what comes next in our routine
- We can remember things
- We can imitate in our own way things that we have seen
- We can use tools while investigating
- We can investigate
Cognition and General Knowledge- Social Studies
- We can understand time words such as yesterday, tomorrow, next, after, before, etc.
- We can be responsible
- We can be fair and help our friends
- We can talk with our friends to fix a problem
- We can understand that the things we do have a reaction
Physical Well-Being and Motor Development
- We can run and jump when we play
- We can use balls, toys, and a bicycle when we play
- We can bend, stretch and twist when we play
- We can use our hands, fingers, and wrists to do things
- We can keep focus on what we are learning and ignore other things around me