Learning goals

Certified by Education Alliance Finland

The supported learning goals are identified by mapping the product against the selected reference curriculum and soft skills definitions most relevant for the 21st century.

• Learning to face failures and disappointments
• Practicing to take care of one's own and other people’s safety
• Practicing to take care of own and other people’s safety
• Practicing to notice causal connections
• Learning to build information on top of previously learned
• Encouraging to build new information and visions
• Learning to combine information to find new innovations
• Practicing to work with others
• Learning to understand the meaning of rules, contracts and trust
• Practicing to give, get and reflect feedback
Learning to notice causal connections
Practicing persistent working
Practicing to find ways of working that are best for oneself
Learning to find the joy of learning and new challenges
engage in increasingly complex sensorymotor skills and movement patterns
combine gross and fine motor movement and balance to achieve increasingly complex patterns of activity including dance, creative movement and drama
demonstrate spatial awareness and orient themselves, moving around and through their environments confidently and safely
manipulate equipment and manage tools with increasing competence and skill
use their sensory capabilities and dispositions with increasing integration, skill and purpose to explore and respond to their world
Children show good control and co-ordination in large and small movements. They move confidently in a range of ways, safely negotiating space. They handle equipment and tools effectively, including pencils for writing.
Demonstrates appropriate body awareness when moving in different spaces.
Exhibits appropriate body movements when carrying out a task.
Manipulates small objects with ease (fits objects into holes, strings wooden beads, stacks mini blocks, uses geo boards, etc.).
Demonstrates awareness of spatial boundaries and the ability to work within them.
Displays an upright posture when standing or seated.
Maintains balance during sitting, standing, and movement activities.
Runs, jumps, walks in a straight line, and hops on one foot.
Climbs stairs using alternating feet.
Navigates age appropriate playground equipment.
Participates in a series of large motor movements or activities such as, dancing, follow the leader, or Simon Says.
Participates in activities to promote balance and flexibility.
Explores, practices, and performs skill sets: throwing, pushing, pulling, catching, balancing, etc.
Engages in large motor activities (e.g., marching, hopping, running, jumping, dancing) in increasingly longer periods of time as skill and endurance develops.
Participates in activities designed to strengthen major muscle groups.
Encouraging students to be innovative and express new ideas
Children are encouraged to enjoy the outdoors and exercise during all seasons.
Practicing communication through different channels
Practicing to use foreign language as a communication tool
show enthusiasm for participating in physical play and negotiate play spaces to ensure the safety and wellbeing of themselves and others
Practicing to express own thoughts and feelings
Practicing to recognize and express feelings
Practicing to take responsibility of one's own learning
Practicing to set one's own learning goals
Practicing to evaluate one's own learning
Demonstrates ability to engage in finger plays.
Practicing creative thinking
Practicing to improvise
Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
Developing problem solving skills
Practicing to notice links between subjects learned
recognise and communicate their bodily needs (for example, thirst, hunger, rest, comfort, physical activity)
A positive attitude towards food and eating is encouraged.
Supporting healthy and varied eating habits.
respond through movement to traditional and contemporary music, dance and storytelling
show an increasing awareness of healthy lifestyles and good nutrition
show increasing independence and competence in personal hygiene, care and safety for themselves and others
Children know the importance for good health of physical exercise, and a healthy diet, and talk about ways to keep healthy and safe. They manage their own basic hygiene and personal needs successfully, including dressing and going to the toilet independently.
Enabling the growth of positive self-image
Children's abilities to take care of their health and personal hygiene are supported.
Recognizing habits that are good for sustainable living
Supporting the growth of environmental awareness
Encouraging the growth of positive self-image
Practicing to take care of one's own wellbeing and health
Demonstrates growing independence in using personal hygiene skills (e.g., washing hands, brushing teeth, toileting, etc.)
Recognizes the importance of good nutrition, water, rest and sleep in order to be healthy.
Talks about food choices in relationship to allergies and overall health.
Relates healthy behaviors to good personal health (milk for strong bones, spinach for strong muscles).
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