CONTENT STANDARDS
Preschool programs provide children with opportunities to:

EXAMPLE PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Some things a child does to demonstrate competency:

Hawai`i DOE Content and Performance Standards

Standard 1: Develop health awareness and skills.

• Wash hands when needed (such as before eating and after using toilet)

• Cover mouth when coughing or sneezing

• Demonstrate awareness that some foods help their bodies to grow and be healthy (I am drinking all of my milk because it makes my bones strong)

• Indicate awareness that his/her body needs exercise and rest.

• Choose challenging new physical activities.
   

Health: Self- Management

Practice health-enhancing behaviors and reduce health risks.

Health: Interpersonal Communication

Use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.

Health: Core Concepts

Understand concepts related to health promotion & disease prevention.

Health: Accessing Information

Assess valid health information and health: promoting products and services.

Standard 2: Learn and follow basic safety rules.

•  Know how to seek help in an emergency (phone 911, give name, address and phone number).

• Know procedures for fire safety (evacuate, stop and roll), field trip safety (hold hands, stay with the group); and travel safety (use seat belts, cross street with an adult).

• Recognize everyday dangers (such as stove, knives, matches medicines and poisons) and follow rules regarding them.
   

Standard 3: Acquire basic self help skills.

• Manage routines such as dressing self, using toilet independently, using eating utensils.

• Follow routines for care of own belongings and school supplies.

• Follow classroom routines for clean up.
   

Health: Core Concepts

Understand concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention

Standard 4: Increase sensory awareness.

• Explore and experiment using various sensory media in play (water, sand, paint, mud, rice).

• Begin to identify and discriminate among sensory stimuli (tastes, sounds, textures etc.).
   

Health: Interpersonal Communication

Use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.

Standard 5: Develop strength and coordination of small muscles.

•  Participate and demonstrate increasing skill in activities that require small muscle strength (such as cutting, hammering, using tools for play dough, building with blocks).

• Show beginning control of tools (such as scissors, pencils, brushes, markers, tongs).

• Demonstrate increasing skill in hand-eye coordination in activities like puzzles, stringing beads, tracing shapes and letters, and using manipulatives like Legos.
   

Physical Education: Movement Forms

Use motor skills and movement patterns to perform a variety of physical activities.

Physical Education: Active Lifestyle

Participate regularly in physical activity.

Standard 6: Develop strength and coordination of large muscles.

• Demonstrate balance skill in activities such as walking a balance beam, jumping and landing on two feet, hopping on one foot.

• Display increasing strength and coordinated use of upper body and arms in activities such as throwing and catching a large ball, climbing a play structure.

• Show increasing strength and coordinated use of lower body and legs in activities such as running, galloping, skipping, kicking a ball, and creative movement.

• Control body in movement activities.
   

Physical Education: Movement Forms

Use motor skills and movement patterns to perform a variety of physical activities.

Physical Education: Active Lifestyles

Participate regularly in physical activity.