Skill Descriptor: Examine how language learning is beneficial.

Achievement Indicators:

• Discuss what language learning means
• Identify the benefits of being able to communicate in multiple languages

Skill Descriptor: Explore multiple languages.

Achievement Indicators:

• Identify local and home languages, including English and French, Wolastoqey, Mi’kmaq, and American Sign Language

Skill Descriptor: Play with multiple languages.

Achievement Indicators:

• Experiment and play with new words and symbols in multiple languages

Skill Descriptor: Refer to environmental print in multiple languages.

Achievement Indicators:

• Recognize and refer to very simple and/or very common words in multiple languages, found in and around the classroom, and as modeled by the teacher

Skill Descriptor: Communicate in multiple languages using strategies for meaning making.

Achievement Indicators:

• Use language play, actions, signs, imagery, and novel vocabulary to explore communications in multiple languages where appropriate

Skill Descriptor: Demonstrate being a reader, writer, and communicator in multiple languages.

Achievement Indicators:

• Attempt to integrate new words into communicative opportunities with others
• Engage with a variety of media and/or text in multiple languages

Skill Descriptor: Use digital technologies to learn and communicate.

Achievement Indicators:

• Use technology to explore multiple languages
• View or create imagery, artwork, and messages in multiple languages

Skill Descriptor: Explore activities that foster enjoyment and well-being.

Achievement Indicators:

• Play
• Engage in child-led activities (e.g., games, make-believe, role-playing, building, etc.)
• Explore curiosities

Skill Descriptor: Identify interests, passions, and strengths.

Achievement Indicators:

• Share interests
• Explain and explore passions
• Name personal strengths

Skill Descriptor: Recognize that feelings and emotions can impact well-being, relationships, and the way we engage with others.

Achievement Indicators:

• Identify emotions that can influence actions and reactions

Skill Descriptor: Define and express needs, wants, and choices.

Achievement Indicators:

• Use strategies to share needs, wants, and choices with others
• Express likes and dislikes when making choices, engaging in play, and in other interactions
• Communicate likes and dislikes related to physical interactions and affection

Skill Descriptor: Explore strategies that promote inclusion.

Achievement Indicators:

• Describe what it feels like to be included
• Describe what it feels like to be excluded
• Consider the needs, wants, and choices of others
• Use strategies to include others

Skill Descriptor: Examine how natural resources are connected to us and our environment.

Achievement Indicators:

• Explore local natural resources
• Define connections to one another and the world around us

Skill Descriptor: Analyze personal safety and healthy practices.

Achievement Indicators:

• Define personal safety
• Discuss healthy practices
• Identify safe spaces, people, and behaviours
• Use strategies that contribute to a healthy lifestyle
• Discuss what “no” means, and when it’s appropriate to say “no”
• Use anatomically correct terminology for body parts (e.g., buttocks, penis, scrotum, vagina, vulva, breasts, etc.)

Skill Descriptor: Apply behaviours and practices that promote safety.

Achievement Indicators:

• Demonstrate safe behaviours and practices
• Use practices that contribute to a safe and caring environment

Skill Descriptor: Practise using flexible and fluid thinking in new and familiar situations.

Achievement Indicators:

• Demonstrate an increased willingness to try new things, make mistakes, and receive and apply feedback

Skill Descriptor: Examine new activities, interests, and possibilities.

Achievement Indicators:

• Create games, activities, and multiple opportunities to interact with others and the environment  

Skill Descriptor: Negotiate, compromise, and work together.

Achievement Indicators:

• Demonstrate an increased willingness to reflect on alternate perspectives and conflicting points of views
• Use creativity and innovation in interactions, play, and problem solving
• Use conflict resolution strategies to work together and problem solve

Skill Descriptor: Gather evidence to create and answer questions.

Achievement Indicators:

• Investigate and collect information to create and answer questions
• Invent approaches to solving practical problems

Skill Descriptor: Engage in activities that introduce elements of risk, novelty, and the unknown.

Achievement Indicators:

• Participate in guided and free explorations to observe and answer questions around objects and activities that are new and familiar

Skill Descriptor: Interact with others to share interest, enjoyments, or new information.

Achievement Indicators:

• Ask questions of each other, tinker, wonder, and prompt new play

Skill Descriptor: Honour differences and uniqueness.

Achievement Indicators:

• Use respectful and socially responsible language and practices
• Define what makes us different and unique by using examples

Skill Descriptor: Act to change inequitable practices.

Achievement Indicators:

• Explain what it means to be fair/unfair
• Explore different perspectives of what it means to be fair
• Demonstrate a willingness to promote fairness

Skill Descriptor: Act as responsible and responsive community members.

Achievement Indicators:

• Demonstrate respect toward your community and your environment

Skill Descriptor: Participate in decision-making processes.

Achievement Indicators:

• Demonstrate an increased willingness to investigate and reflect when making a decision

Skill Descriptor: Recognize patterns in nature.

Achievement Indicators:

• Observe objects, cycles, and living organisms in the environment to identify patterns and recurrences

Skill Descriptor: Explore sustainable practices.

Achievement Indicators:

• Reduce consumption by reusing and repurposing materials
• Demonstrate increased awareness of materials that can be reduced, reused, and recycled