Head+Start+Outcomes

The Head Start Outcome is a guide to help in ongoing assessments of the progress and accomplishments of the improvements of the child. There are 8 sections and elements of specific indicators of a child's skills, abilities, knowledge and behaviors.

These objectives and elements are found ongoing in our classroom all year long. Many of these objectives are targeted daily in many different ways. Children's progress is documented through teacher observations, samples of children's work, parent reports, direct assessment of children and other tools. These will reflect over time the child's progess.

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__**Language and Listening Domain**__ A. Listening and Understanding a. Demonstrates increasing ability to attend to and understand conversations, stories, songs, and poems. b. Shows progress in understanding and following simple and multiple step directions. c. Understands an increasingly complex and varied vocabulary. d. For non English speaking children, progesses in listening to read and understanding English.

B. Speaking and Communcating a. Develops increasing abilities to understand and use language to communicate information, experiences, ideas, feelings, opinions, needs, questions, and for other purposes. b. Progresses in abilities to initiate and respond appropriately in conversation and discussions with peers and adults. c. Uses an increasingly complex and varied spoken vocabulary. d. Progresses in clarity of pronounciation and towards speaking in sentences of increasing length and grammatical complexity. e. For non-English speaking children, progresses in speaking English.

__**Literacy Domain**__ A Phonological Awareness a. Shows increasing ability to discriminate and identify sounds in spoken language. b. Shows growing awareness of beginning and ending sounds of words. c. Progresses in recognizing matching sounds and rhymes in familiar words, games, songs, stories, and poems. d. Shows growing ability to hear and discriminate seperate syllables in words. e. Associates sounds with written words, such as awareness that different words begin with the same sound.

B. Book Knowledge and Appreciation a. Shows growing interest and involvement in listening to and discussing a variety of fiction and non-fiction books and poetry. b. Shows growing interest in reading related activities, such as asking to have a favorite book read; choosing to look at books, drawing pictures based on stories, asking to take books home, going to the library, and engaging in pretend reading with other children. c. Demonstrates progress in abilities to retell and dictate stories from books and experiences; to act out stories in dramatic play; and to predict what will happen next in a story. d. Progress in learning how to handle and care for books; knowing to view one page at a time in sequence from front to back; and understanding that a book has a title, author and illustrator.

C. Print Awareness & Concepts a. Shows increasing awareness of print in classroom, home and community settings. b. Develops growing understanding of the different functions of forms of print such as signs, letters, newspapers, lists, messages, and menus. c. Demonstrates increasing awareness of concepts of print, such as that reading in English moves from top to bottom and from left to right, that speech can be written down, and that print conveys a message. d. Shows progress in recognizing the association between spoken and written words by following print as it is read aloud. e. Recognizes a word as a unit of print, or awareness that letters are grouped to form words, and that words are separated by spaces.

E. Alphabet Knowledge a. Shows progress in associating the names of letters with their shapes and sounds. b. Increases in ability to notice the beginning letters in familiar words. c. Identifies at least 10 letters of the alphabet, especially those in their own names. d. Knows that letters of the alphabet are a special category of visual graphics that can be individually named. Mathematics Domain __**
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A. Number & Operations a. Demonstrates increasing interest and awareness of numbers and counting as a means for solving problems and determining quantity. b. Begins to associate number concepts, vocabulary, quantities, and written numerals in meaningful ways. c. Develops increasing ability to count in sequence to 10 and beyond. d. Begins to make use of one to one correspondence in counting objects and matching groups of objects. e. Begins to use language to compare numbers of objects with terms such as more, less, greater than, fewer, equal to. f. Develop increased abilities to combine, seperate, and name "how many" concrete objects.

B. Geometry & Spacial Sense a. Begins to recognize, describe, compare, and name common shapes, their parts and attributes. b. Progress in ability to put together and take apart shapes. c. Begins to be able to determine whether or not two shapes are the same size and shape d Shows growth in matching, sorting, putting in a series and regrouping objects according to one or two attributes such as color, size or shape. e. Builds an increasing understanding of directionality, order and positions of objects and words such as up, down, over, under, top, bottom, inside, outside, in front and behind.

C. Patterns & Measurement a. Enhances ability to recognize, duplicate, and extend simple patterns using a variety of materials b. Shows increasing abilities to match, sort, put in a series, and regroup objects according to one or two attributes such as shape or size. c. Begins to make comparisons between several objects based on a single attribute. d. Shows progress in using standard and non standard measures for length and area of objects.

__**Science Domain**__

A. Scientific Skills & Methods a. Begins to use senses and a variety of tools and simple measuring devices to gather information, investigate materials and observe processes and relationships. b. Develops increased ability to observe and disuss common properties, differences and comparisons among objects and materials. c. Begins to participate in simple investigations to test observations, discuss and draw conclusions, and form generlizations. d. Develops growing abilities to collect, describe, and record information through a variety of means, including discussion, drawings, maps, charts. e. Begins to describe and discuss predictions, explanations, and generalizations based on past experiences.

B. Scientific Knowledge a. Expands knowledge of and abilities to observe, describe and discuss the natural world, materials, living things and natural processes. b. Expands knowledge of and repeat for their body and the environment c. Develops growing awareness of ideas and language related to attributes of time and temperature d. Shows increased awareness and beginning understanding of changes in materials and cause-effect relationships.

**__Creative Arts Domain__**

A. Music a. Participates with increasing interest and enjoyment in a variety of music activities, including listening, singing, finger plays, games and performances. b. Experiments with a variety of musical instruments.

B. Art a. Gains ability in using different art media and materials in a variety of ways for creative expression and representation b. Progresses in abilities to create drawings, paintings, models, and other art creations that are more detailed, creative or realistic c. Develops growing abilities to plan, work independently, and demonstrate care and persistance in a variety of art projects. d. Begins to understand and share opinions about artistic products and experiences.

C. Movement a. Expresses through movement and dancing what is felt and heard in various musical tempos and styles. b. Shows growth in moving in time to different patterns of beat and rhythm in music.

D. Dramatic Play a. Participates in a variety of dramatic play activities that become more extended and complex. b. Shows growing creativity and imagination in using materials and in assuming different roles in dramatic play situations.
 * __ Social & Emotional Development Domain __**

A. Self Concept a. Begins to develop and express awareness of self in terms of specific abilities, characteristics and preferences. b. Develops growing capacity for independence in a range of activitie, routines, and tasks. c. Demonstrates growing confidence in a range of abilities and expresses pride in accomplishments.

B. Self Control a. Shows progress in expressing feelings, needs and opinions in difficult situations and conflicts without harming themselves, others or property. b. Develops growing understanding of how their actions affect others and begins to accept the consequences of their actions. c. Demonstrates increasing capacity to follow rules and routines and use materials purposefully, safely, and respectfully.

C. Cooperation a. Increases abilities to sustain interactions with peers by helping, sharing and discussion. b. Shows increasing abilities to use compromise and discussion in working, playing and resolving conflicts with peers. c. Develops increasing abilities to give and take in interactions; to take turns in games or using materials; and to interact without being overy submissive or directive.

D. Social Relationships a.Demonstrates increasing comfort in talking with and accepting guidance and directions from a range of familiar adults. b. Shows progress in developing friendships with peers. c. Progresses in responding sympathetically to peers who are in need, upset, hurt or angry, and in expressing empathy or caring for others.

E. Knowledge of Families & Communities a. Develops ability to identify personal characteristics including gender, and family composition. b. Progresses in understanding similarities and respecting differences among people, such as genders, race, special needs, culture, language, and family structures. c. Develops growing awareness of jobs and what is required to perform them. d. Begins to express and understand concepts and language of geography in the contexts of their classrooms, home and community.

__**Approaches to Learning Domain**__

A Initiative & Curiosity a. Chooses to participate in a increasing variety of tasks and activities. b. Develops increased ability to make indepedent choices. c. Approaches tasks and activities with increased flexibility, imagination and inventiveness. d. Grows in eagerness to learn about and discuss a growing range of topics, ideas and tasks.

B. Engagement & Persistance a. Grows in abilities to persist in and complete a variety of tasks, activities, projects and experiences. b. Demonstrates increasing ability to set goals and develop and follow through on plans. c. Shows growing capacity to maintain concentration over time on a task, question, set of directions or interactions, despite distractions and interuptions. C. Reasoning & Problem Solving a. Develops increasing abilities to find more than one solution to a question, task or problem. b. Grows in recognizing and solving problems through active exploration, including trial and error, and interactions and discussions with peers and adults. c. Develops increasing abilities to classify, compare, and contrast objects, events and experiences.


 * __ Physical Health & Development Domain __**

A. Fine Motor Skills a. Develops growing strength, dexterity and control needed to use tools such as scissors, paper punch, stapler and hammer. b. Grows in hand-eye coordination in building with blocks, putting together puzzles, reproducing shapes and patterns, stringing beads and using scissors. c. Progresses in abilities to use writing, drawing, and art tools including pencils, markers, chalk, paint brushes, and various types of technology.

B. Gross Motor Skills a. Shows increasing levels of proficiency, control and balance in walking, climbing, running, jumping, hopping, skipping, marching and galloping. b. Demonstrates increasing abilities to coordinate movements in throwing, catching, kicking, bouncing balls, and using the slide and swing.

C. Health Status & Practices a. Progresses in physical growth, strength, stamina, and flexibility. b. Participates actively in games, outdoor play and other forms of exercise that enhance physical fitness. c. Shows growing independence in hygiene, nutrition, and personal care when eating, dressing, washing hands, brushing teeth and toileting. d. Builds awareness and ability to follow basic health and safety rules such as fire safety, traffic and pedestrian safety, and responding appropriately to potentially harmful objects, substances and activities.