The document summarizes the developmental progress and skills of preschool-aged children across multiple domains during a project focused on buildings. It describes how the children are developing skills in areas like shape recognition, fine motor control, following directions, comparing attributes, problem solving, storytelling, cooperative play, and early math and literacy concepts. The children engaged with books, building plans, art, blocks, and experiments to support learning during the project.

2. We are:
• Beginning to determine if two shapes are
the same size
• Building an understanding of
directionality and positions such as:
inside, outside, on, over etc.
• Developing our ability to take turns and
cooperate

3. We are:
• Beginning to recognize, describe,
compare, and name common shapes
• Demonstrating an increased ability to
set goals and follow through on plans
• Remaining persistent and concentrating
on a task over a period of time

4. The students are looking through
books about buildings to find
information.
We are:
• Using pictures and illustrations to
aid comprehension
• Using a variety of resources to
gather information
• Learning how to handle books—
one page at a time; front to back

5. We asked the students to find
letters, numbers and shapes on our
building plans.
We are:
• Progressing in hand-eye
coordination to recreate shapes and
fine motor skills to use writing tools
• Identify, name, and create common
two dimensional shapes in play
situations

6. We are:
• Approaching tasks
with increased
imagination and
inventiveness
• Demonstrating ability
to set goals and
develop and follow
through on plans
• Exploring ways that
natural resources are
used in our
environment
• Gaining information
through books, media
and conversations with
peers

7. We asked the students to
compare weights of different
building materials—nuts, bolts
and washers etc.
We are:
• Investigating unfamiliar objects with
simple equipment
• Making predictions
• Investigating natural laws such as
gravity
• Recording observations

8. We are:
• Gaining ability to use different art media in a variety of ways for creative
expression and representation
• Beginning to understand and share opinions about artistic products and
experiences
• Demonstrating an increased capacity to use materials purposefully

9. We are:
• Developing a growing awareness of
jobs and what it takes to perform them
• Developing dexterity to use writing
and drawing tools
• Identifying and creating shapes
• Using terms to compare—bigger,
smaller, etc.

10. During the buildings project, we
studied the story of “The Three
Little Pigs” We read different
versions, voted on our favorite and
talked about what makes buildings
strong/weak. We also added the
felt board pieces for the story to
our Library center for the children
to retell the story.
We are:
• Identifying characters in favorite books
• Retelling events from a story through a variety of media and play events
• Using an increasingly complex spoken vocabulary
• Increasing our ability to sustain interactions with peers by helping, sharing
and discussion

11. We are:
• Solving problems through trial and error
• Developing increasing ability to find more than one
solution to a problem
• Maintaining concentration on task for increasing
amount of time
• Progressing in ability to put together and take apart
shapes

12. We are:
• “Reading familiar words of
‘Environmental Print’ (Pizza Hut,
McDonalds etc.
• Understanding that print has meaning
and a function
• Demonstrating cooperative behaviors
• Beginning to recognize that coins and
money have value
• Distributing
objects into equal
sets (passing out
pizza slices)
• Play writing—from
top to bottom and
in horizontal rows

13. We are:
• Building an understanding of
directionality words (on, next to, etc)
• Beginning to use a variety of tools to
measure and gain information
• Beginning to use terms to compare
(longer, taller, shorter, more, less)

14. We are:
• Developing increasing
ability to count in
sequence to 10
• Beginning to use one-
to-one correspondence
when counting objects
• Showing growth in
matching and sorting
• Using terms that
compare: more, less