Bienvenidos to Chile
Infant Room
Social and Emotional Development
- Recognizing and reaching out to familiar adults.
- Expressing needs with body movement and expressions.
- Watching and responding with other children.
- Showing interest in being with others.
- Mirroring both expression and feelings from others.
- Begin to participate when adult attends to personal needs.
- Celebrating differences among children and their families.
Physical Development
- Learning to hold head up and follow sounds and movement.
- Learning to roll over, sit, crawl, pull up and walk.
- Grasping toys with whole hand and eventually using fingers.
Cognitive Development
- Watching the actions of others.
- Exploring objects and noticing how they react.
- Attending to sights and sounds.
- Exploring objects using five senses.
- Demonstrating awareness of a problem.
Language Development
- Showing interest in the speech of others.
- Noticing Pictures.
- Engaging in back and forth cooing.
- Manipulating books when read to out loud.
- Using facial expression along with movement and distinct cries or vocalizations to communicate.
Visiting Peru
Young Toddler 1
Leadership Goals
Social and Emotional Development
- Celebrating Diversity, differences among children and families.
- Beginning to participate in group activities.
- Having brief and or continuing play with other children.
- Responding to emotions of others.
- Begin to respond to verbal redirection.
- Begin to apply strategies to manage own feelings.
- Trying complex tasks with some success.
Physical Development
- Increasing balance and coordination.
- Walking up and down stairs with assistance.
- Holding toddler crayons and learning to create marks on paper.
- Learning to use and master kitchen utensils during meals and or activities.
Cognitive Development
- Using objects in pretend play as they are used in real life.
- Exploring ways to make things happen.
- Experimenting with trial and error approaches to simple problems.
- Using familiar objects in conventional ways.
- Focusing on activities of choice.
Language Development
- Speaking in two-word phrases.
- Initiate conversations with few words.
- Engage and appreciation with books while read out loud.
- Recognizing that pictures tell a story.
- Familiarizing and understanding simple multi word speech in English and Spanish.
Stay in Cuba
Continuity- Preschool
Leadership Goals
Social and Emotional Development
- Actively participating in group experiences.
- Responding to other’s feeling and caring behavior.
- Using words and expressing needs and feelings.
- With increasing regularity understanding what behavior is expected.
- Functioning with increasing comfort in a variety of learning environments.
- Celebrating the differences among children and their families.
Physical Development
- Grasping scissors and learning to cut paper.
- Balancing while using arms and legs.
- Attempting a variety of large muscle activities.
- Using hand and eye coordination while doing increasingly complex tasks.
Cognitive Development
- Using real and imaginary objects in pretend play.
- Beginning to investigate the case when something unexpected happens.
- Grouping objects with similar characteristics.
- Carrying out very own plan for solving simple problems.
- Continuing very own activities until own goal is reached.
- Performing multi step tasks.
Language Development
- Pretending to read a book.
- Participating in conversations for two or more turns.
- Using simple sentences and questions with three words or more.
- Beginning to understand scribbling and print is useful when communicating.
- Understanding complex and abstract words.
Viva Mexico
Final Destination - PreKinder
Leadership Goals
Personal and Social Skills
- Being able to partake in unfamiliar activities.
- Participating in whole group activities.
- Developing and Sharing Solutions.
- Playing cooperatively with friends.
- Identifying and expressing feelings, using words.
- Offering help to peers.
- Developing solutions to resolve conflicts.
- Sustaining attention to a variety of self-selected tasks.
- Inviting and celebrating the diversity among other children and families.
Physical Skills
- Managing most aspects of dressing, eating and toileting.
- Coordinating movements (running, jumping and balance).
- Hand and eye coordination to manipulate with precision.
Cognitive Skills
- Understanding and participating in conversations.
- Experimenting and Observing and describing how effects vary.
- Creating and describing simple patterns.
- Understanding that the printed words in the books convey a story.
- Trying several strategies to solve a problem.
- Using at least two to three sentences to relate to a story or experience.
- Understanding and participating in conversations.
- Sequencing and making verbal comparisons on visible attributes.
- Sorting on a basis of one attribute.
Expressing Creativity/Diversity
- Engaging in cooperative role playing with friends.
- Creating constructions that represent own ideas.
- Creating art that represent own ideas.
- Singing Simple songs along with attentive changes in music and language.
