California Preschool Learning Foundations - ECEZero2Three ...

Social Interaction
1.0 Interactions with Familiar Adults
At around 48 months of age At around 60 months of age
1.1 Interact with familiar adults comfortably
and competently, especially
in familiar settings.
Children comfortably interact with familiar
adults in play or problem solving, ask questions
or communicate about their experiences,
cooperate with instructions, or demonstrate
skills to the familiar adult, especially in familiar
settings.
Examples Examples
• Participates in pretend play or storytelling with
a familiar preschool teacher.
• Shares a brief conversation initiated by a familiar
adult or initiates such a conversation.
• Shows a familiar adult a picture she has drawn.
• Responds appropriately to a request or question
by a teacher, although perhaps with delay.
• Seeks assistance of a familiar adult, often with
nonverbal cues.
• Stays close to a familiar adult when faced with
adult strangers or in an unfamiliar setting.
California Department of Education • Preschool Learning Foundations, Volume 1
1.1 Participate in longer and more
reciprocal interactions with
familiar adults and take greater
initiative in social interaction.
Children take increasing initiative in interacting
with familiar adults through conversation,
suggesting a shared activity or asking for the
adult’s assistance, and cooperate readily.
• Asks a specific teacher to help build a road in
the sandbox and interacts cooperatively with the
teacher for a sustained period.
• Communicates to a weekly volunteer, “Guess
what I did!” and continues conversing with the
visitor about it.
• Answers a teacher’s question, then asks the
teacher another question.
• Communicates, “What?” or “Huh?” when the
teacher asks a question that the child does not
understand.
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SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT