## North Carolina Early Learning and Development Progressions: Birth to Five

NC Foundations for Early Learning: Cognitive Development (CD)

Click on a skills progression below for information about skills appropriate to each available age range or click here to return to the main page.

- Construction of Knowledge: Thinking and Reasoning

- CD 1: Children use their senses to construct knowledge about the world around them

- A. Constructs knowledge

- CD 2: Children recall information and use it for new situations and problems

- A. Recalls and uses information for problem solving

- CD 3: Children demonstrate the ability to think about their own thinking: reasoning, taking perspectives, and making decisions

- A. Thinking and reasoning
- B. Taking perspectives
- C. Making decisions

- Creative Expression

- CD 4: Children demonstrate appreciation for different forms of artistic expressions.

- A. Music
- B. Art

- CD 5: Children demonstrate self-expression and creativity in a variety of forms and contexts, including play, visual arts, music, drama, and dance.

- A. Music/dance
- B. Art
- C. Drama

- Social Connections

- CD 6: Children demonstrate knowledge of relationships and roles within their own families, homes, and communities.

- A. Demonstrates knowledge of relationships and roles

- CD 7: Children recognize that they are members of different groups (e.g., family, preschool class, cultural groups).

- A. Recognize they are members of different groups

- CD 8: Children identify and demonstrate acceptance of similarities and differences between themselves and others

- A. Identify and demonstrate acceptance of similarities and differences

- Mathematical Thinking and Expression

- CD 10: Children show understanding of numbers and quantities during play and other activities

- A. Counting
- B. Recognizing number and subitizing
- C. Composing and decomposing number

- CD 11: Children compare, sort, group, organize and measure objects and create patterns in their everyday environment.

- A. Comparing and Ordering
- B. Measuring
- C. Patterning
- D. Classifying

- CD 12: Children identify and use common shapes and concepts about position during play and other activities.

- A. Recognizes geometric shapes
- B. Composes geometric shapes
- C. Spatial understanding

- Scientific Exploration and Knowledge

- CD 14: Children observe and describe characteristics of living things and the physical world

- A. Observe and describe characteristics of living things and the physical world

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2015

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