Domain: NC Foundations for Early Learning: Cognitive Development (CD)

Subdomain: Social Connections

Goal: Children recognize that they are members of different groups (e.g., family, preschool class, cultural groups).

Skill Progression: Recognize they are members of different groups

Age: 42-48 Months

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Observe the child during the different classroom activities of the day.

The adult can play a simple board game with the child. During the game talk about the rules of the game and the rules at home, school, and other places. How are they the same? Different?

During free play the child will typically choose to play with same-sex peers.

Encourage early childhood educators and parents to talk about how the expectations are different for different situation. Adults often don’t realize that the child is not intending to misbehave, he is just applying different rules that the situation demands in different settings.