Bambini Learning Outcomes

Our Philosophy

Children are born with tremendous potential and capacity for learning across all developmental domains: physical, cognitive, emotional, language, and social development. Brain development in early childhood is influenced by heredity, experiences, and relationships. The adults who live with and care for infants and young children play an important role in laying the foundation and setting the stage for learning success. Here at Bambini’s we believe that purposeful play is developmentally appropriate and an important part of a child’s intellectual, social, emotional and physical development. Our children are viewed as thinkers, reflecting about their world through play.  They are encouraged to gain knowledge by building their own path of learning through hands on activities at their individual pace with guidance from the adults in their lives. 

Learning Outcomes Framework 

(Our learning outcomes are aligned with the MSDE Research-based Maryland Early Learning Framework. They cover 9 areas of development and learning. These outcomes span from birth through Pre-Kindergarten and will be adapted to fit each child’s developmental level and age.)

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Social Emotional

• Regulates emotions and behaviors

1. Manages feelings

2. Follows limits and expectations

3. Takes care of own needs appropriately

• Establishes and sustains positive relationships

1. Forms relationships with adults

2. Responds to emotional cues

3. Interacts with peers

4. Makes friends

• Participates cooperatively and constructively in group situations

1. Balances needs and rights of others and self

2. Solves social problems

Physical

• Demostrates traveling skills

• Demonstrates balancing skills

• Demonstrates gross motor skills

• Demonstrates fine-motor skills

1. Uses fingers and hands

2. Uses writing and drawing tools

Language

• Listens to and understands increasingly complex language

1. Comprehends language

2. Follows directions

• Uses language to express thoughts and needs

1. Uses an expanding expressive vocabulary

2. Speaks clearly

3. Uses conventional grammar

4. Talks about another time or place

• Uses appropriate conversational and other communication skills

1. Engages in conversations

2. Uses social rules of language

Cognitive

• Demonstrates positive approaches to learning

1. Attends and engages

2. Persists

3. Solves problems

4. Shows curiosity and motivation

5. Shows flexibility and inventiveness in thinking

• Remembers and connects experiences

1. Recognizes and recalls

2. Makes connections

• Uses classification skills

• Uses symbols and images to represent something not present

1. Thinks symbolically

2. Engages in sociodramatic play

Literacy

• Demonstrates phonological awareness, phonics skills, and word recognition

1. Recognizes and discriminates rhyme in language 

2. Recognizes and discriminates aliteration in language

3. Recognize that words are made up of letters and their sounds

4. Applies phonics rules and knowledge of word structure in language

• Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet

1. Identifies and names upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

2. Identifies letter-sound correspondence

• Demonstrates knowledge of print and its uses

1. Uses and appreciates books and other texts

2. Uses print concepts

• Comprehends and responds to books and other texts

1. Interacts during reading experiences

2. Uses emergent reading skills

3. Retells stories and recounts details from informational texts

• Demonstrates writing skills

1. Uses letter-like shapes, symbols, letters, and words to convey meaning.

2. Writes name 

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Mathematics

• Uses number concepts and operations

1. Counts verbally to 10 by ones

2. Recognizes written numerals to 10

3. Understands the relationship between numbers and quantities

4. Represents a number by producing a set or objects

5. Recognizes the number of objects in a set

6. Explore addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, drawings

• Explores and describes spatial relationships and shapes

1. Match, group and name shapes 

2. Compose and describe structures using three-dimensional shapes 

• Compares and measures

1. Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight

2. Compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, using words such as longer/shorter, heavier/lighter, taller/shorter

3. Sort objects into given categories

4. Compare categories using words such as greater than/more, less than, and equal to/ same

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Science and Technology

• Uses Scientific Inquiry

• Demonstrates knowledge of the characteristics of living things

• Demonstrates knowledge of the physical properties of objects and materials

• Uses tools and other technology to perform tasks

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Social Studies

• Demonstrates knowledge about self

• Shows basic understanding of people and how they live

• Explores change related to familiar people or places

• Demonstrates simple geographic knowledg

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The Arts

• Explores the visual arts

• Explores musical concepts and expression

• Explores dance and movement concepts

• Explores drama through actions and language