Grade PreK • Social Foundations What Your Child Will Learn

Personal Self-Regulation  

• Attempt new play and learning.
• Know resources are available in the classroom and how to use them.
• Relate needs, wants, and feelings to others.
• Persevere with activities when feeling frustrated.
• Make choices with help and pursue tasks with intention.
• Care for own belongings with occasional reminders.
• Generate and follow classroom rules.
• Plan routine activities in the classroom with guidance.
• Play with and use materials with appropriate intention and purpose.
• Put away classroom materials after use with occasional reminders.

Social Self-Regulation

• Initiate conversation with peers and adults.
• Take turns when working in groups with guidance.
• Share materials when working in groups with guidance.
• Share materials and equipment with guidance.
• Seek adult help when solving interaction conflicts.
• Listen to directions from peers and respond to simple tasks.
• Understand rules of group activities with guidance.
• Speak of individual contributions and group accomplishments.
• Understand basic feelings, such as happiness or sadness, or feelings expressed by others verbally or non-verbally.

Approaches Toward Learning

• Demonstrate interest and curiosity in learning new things with guidance.
• Ask some things about new things and experiences.
• Speak about new learning experiences.
• Manage transitions from one activity to the next with guidance.
• Listen to simple directions specific to the tasks.
• Complete short-term tasks.
• Plan and carry out familiar tasks with guidance.
• Ask questions to seek ideas for new tasks.
• Relate relevant previous experiences to new tasks.
• Put away materials after completing an activity or task.
• Participate in classroom activities.
• Recognize mistakes and ask for help

Maryland Early Learning Standards for Social Foundations Links to an external site.

In the Maryland Early Learning Standards, Social Foundations is included in the domains of Social and Emotional Development and Approaches to Learning.

The following standards are included in the Social and Emotional Development domain:

Relationships with adults

• Initiate and engage interactions with familiar adults.
• Develop close relationships with familiar adults who provide consistent care.

Relationships with Children

• Initiate and engage in interactions with other children/
• Develop relationships with peers through interactions over time.
• Engage in play with other children.

Emotional Functioning

• Develop an understanding of one's own emotions.
• Develop and understanding of the emotions fo others.
• Responds with care and concern towards others.

Emotional Self-Regulation

• Develop the ability to manage own emotions and their expression.

Sense of Identity and Belonging

• Develop an understanding of self in relation to others.
• Express comfort and a sense of belonging with family and other familiar people.

The following standards are included in the Approaches to Learning domain:

Initiative and CURIOSITY

• Show Initiative in interactions, routines, play and other experiences.
• Show curiosity and interest when engaging with new objects, people and experiences.
• Show engagement and interest in play.

Executive Functioning

• Develop the ability to persist in actions and behaviors
• Develop the ability to keep information in mind active for immediate use (working memory).
• Develop the ability to manage impulses and reactions (inhibitory control).
• Develop the ability to maintain attention and focus (sustained attention).
• Develop flexibility in attention, actions and behaviors (cognitive flexibility).