Cognitive (CD) Components and Goals
COMPONENT 1: CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE: THINKING AND REASONING
CD Goal-1: Through their explorations, play, and social interactions, children use their senses to discover and construct knowledge about the world around them.
CD Goal-2: Through their explorations, play, and social interactions, children recall information and apply it to new situations and problems.
CD Goal-3: Through their explorations, play , and social interactions, children demonstrate the ability to think about their own thinking, reasoning, taking perspectives, and making decisions.
COMPONENT 2: MATHEMATICAL THINKING AND EXPRESSION
CD Goal-4: Through their explorations, play, and social interactions, children count with understanding and use numbers to tell how many, describe order, and compare.
CD Goal-5: Through their explorations, play, and social interactions, children demonstrate concepts about position, as well as identify and describe simple geometric shapes.
CD Goal-6: Through their explorations, play and social interactions, children compare, sort, group, organize, measure, and create simple patterns using concrete objects.
CD Goal-7: Through their explorations, play, and social interactions, children use mathematical thinking to ask questions and solve problems.
COMPONENT 3: SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION AND KNOWLEDGE
CD Goal-8: As a result of their explorations and participation in simple investigations through play, children observe, describe, and demonstrate respect for living things, the environment, and the physical world.
CD Goal-9: As a result of their explorations and participation in simple investigations through play, children demonstrate their ability to use scientific inquiry by observing, manipulating objects, asking questions, making predictions, and dev eloping generalizations.
COMPONENT 4: SOCIAL STUDIES, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
CD Goal-10: Through their explorations, play, and social interactions, children demonstrate an understanding of relationships, roles, and what it means to be a participating member of their families and the diverse groups/communities they belong to.
CD Goal-11: Through their explorations, play, and social interactions, children identify and demonstrate appreciation of similarities and differences between themselves and others.
COMPONENT 5: CREATIVE ARTS AND EXPRESSION
CD Goal-12: Children engage in a variety or creative activities for enjoyment and self-expression including play, visual arts, music, expressive movement, and drama.
CD Goal-13: Children demonstrate an appreciation for different forms of art including visual arts, music, expressive movement, and drama.