Across
- 2. This is a content area that captivates young children because they are endlessly fascinated by the world around them and they insist that the adults in their lives answer their questions about the world around them.
- 4. Similar to Gross Motor Skills, this is another name for skills like walking, hopping, running, jumping, galloping, leaping, and sliding.
- 7. This involves teaching kids to be curious, engaged, and interested in learning.
- 9. This includes aspects of learning related to physical, mental, emotional, and social states.
- 10. This provides sensory, expressive, and social opportunities through the use of various media and materials to create drawings, pictures, or 3D art.
- 13. This is a habit that helps children develop literacy and is a lifelong skill.
- 17. All things are made of this, and there are various kinds like wood, metal, and water that have different properties that can be observed, described, and classified.
- 18. This helps children develop literacy through talking.
- 20. This is a way of thinking about patterns, relationships, and seeking multiple solutions to problems.
- 23. The purpose of this content area is to prepare children to become informed and engaged citizens.
- 24. The combination of sunlight, wind, snow, or rain, and temperature in a particular place at a particular time.
- 25. This is a technique that delivers literacy, is easy to remember, and is fun (Taylor Swift does this).
- 28. These include walking, kicking, hopping, galloping, running, sliding, skipping, leaping, and jumping.
- 29. The ability to read, write, speak, and listen.
- 31. These include the two-finger pincer grasp and manipulation of small objects, supporting the development of pre-writing skills.
- 32. The ability to identify, describe, compare, and create shapes.
- 33. The ability to identify numerals by name, count in sequence, and describe quantities of objects counted.
Down
- 1. THe ability to describe and compare measurable attributes of objects, classify objects, and count the number of objects in each category.
- 3. Adults can do this on the white board in order to help students develop literacy.
- 5. This helps children be aware of the sounds letters make.
- 6. This focuses on awareness and care for self and others.
- 8. Is the way children continue to develop the ability to actively explore and participate in the learning environment.
- 11. The goal of this content area is to develop healthy, responsible children who have the knowledge and skills to work together in a variety of activities that lead to a lifelong healthy lifestyle.
- 12. These can require Gross Motor Skills, but do not involve propelling oneself forward, instead these skills include balancing on one foot, moving body parts in isolation, bending, twisting, and turning.
- 14. Identifying and manipulating simple patterns, the understanding of addition as putting together and adding to, and the understanding of subtraction as taking apart and removing from.
- 15. This provides creative opportunities for children to portray a variety of events characters or stories.
- 16. This provides children the opportunity to use their bodies to move to music and express themselves.
- 19. This includes independence in personal care and hygiene.
- 21. Teachers and students should learn this about each student and maintain a respectful attitude when interacting with others.
- 22. This offers students the opportunity to learn songs, create music, develop self-expression, and build cultural understanding with self and others.
- 26. This focuses on understanding the importance of nutritional food on health throughout life.
- 27. This includes self-awareness, regulation and recognition of emotions, and managing stress.
- 30. These (including humans) depend on their surroundings to get what they need, including food, water, and shelter, to survive.