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Purpose of Kansas Early Learning Standards ○ Create continuum that links early development to school readiness and latter learning in school and life ○ Provide clear statement of what kids should know and be able to do ○ Provide guidance for early learning professionals that enhance and support their abilites School Readiness relies on: ○ Community ○ Family ○ Educational environment - high quality learning ○ Child - are they reaching the age app milestones, health, social, emotional, Kansas Early learning standards ○ Provide set conceptual knowledge/skills, can promote scholl readiness School Readiness Framework: Indicators and Data Elements: same thing but for kindergarten and later school years Kansas Early Learning Standards ○ Are statements describing the skills and knowledge that kids, birth through 5, should know and be able to do as a result of participating in high quality early childhood programs Physical Health ○ Kids should have unstructured and structured play ○ Children play many of the same games @ the same ages because play is a mirror of the child’s thinking and motor abilities Social Emotional Development ○ Development of this relies on the developing capacity of child and their first five years of life ■ Forming close and secure adults and peer relationships ■ Experience, regulated and express emotions in socially and culturally appropriate ways ■ Explore the environment and learning Communication and Literacy Skill Development ○ Dual language learners ○ Research shows that young kids w/new language also learning another language helps and should be included into the program ○ Use home language and english, scaffolding the development Mathematical Knowledge ○ Finding young kids are able to do math long before the enter school ○ Math helps kids make sense of physical and social worlds around them and the naturally incorporate math Science ○ It feeds the curiosity of kids ○ The scientific problem solving of investigative play supports and enhances the kids learning Social Studies

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Learning about the world in which one lives and understanding how ones family and community fit into a larger world of the state and the country ○ Through daily experiences kids begin to understand the impact of weather, how to use money, ect and the choices and accepting the consequences ○ They need to understand how life words and how to incorporate the understanding into daily life choices Creative Arts ○ Provides safe exploration of materials and a child’s environment fostering new ways of thinking through playful expression ○ Research shows a child that is exposed to arts will have a better chance to grow up to be a more creative, imaginative, expressive, confident, self-reliant and critically thinking adult...