The Savvy Quiz for your-child
Scientific Reasoning and the Physical World:

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Babies like to put every item within reach into their tiny mouths, just to see how they taste and feel. Toddlers enjoy ripping and breaking things, just to see how they are made. Preschoolers ask "why?" on average every fifteen seconds, just to figure out how things work. Isn't it fun having these small scientists in our lives? Because that is exactly what they are - endlessly inquisitive little minds hard at work understanding this world they've been dropped into. So let's see what our kids have discovered up so far from all that hands-on investigating, and what more we can explore with them.

My child can differentiate between:


  • Tastes: Salty / Sour / Sweet
  • Touches: Hard / Soft; Wet / Dry;
  • Sounds: Loud / Quiet;
  • Sights: Light / Dark;
  • Smells: Sweet / Sour; Bad vs. good smells
Not yet One or two senses All senses Don't know

My child can identify and describe the ways that the sun, wind, and rain work.


    Not yet One or two ways Several ways Don't know

    My child can do how many of the following tasks?


    • Mix with a spoon (e.g., ice cream, oat meal, powdered drink mix)
    • Cut with a plastic knife (e.g., banana, play doh, sandwich)
    • Use a spatula (e.g., to remove cookies, flip pancakes (real or pretend))
    • Use a colander or sieve to strain
    • Use (with guidance) blender or mixer
    0-1 2-3 4-5 Don't know

    My child can identify how many of the following parts and needs of plants?


    • Seed
    • Stem
    • Root
    • Branch
    • Leaf
    • Plants need warmth
    • Plants need light
    • Plants need water
    0-2 3-5 6-8 Don't know

    My child can identify how many of the following sets of body parts?


    • Nose, eyes, fingers, toes
    • Head, Stomach
    • Hands, Feet
    • Shoulders, knees, elbows
    • Lips, chin, ears
    None 1-3 4-5 Don't know

    My child can identify how many of the five senses and their associated body parts?


    • Sight / Eyes
    • Smell / Nose
    • Sound / Ears
    • Taste / Tongue
    • Touch / Hands or skin
    None 1-3 4-5 Don't know

    My child can identify and describe everyday uses of magnets (e.g., in toys, cabinet locks, â??refrigerator magnetsâ??, etc.).


      Not yet Sometimes or few uses Consistently Don't know

      My child can identify how many of the four seasons?


        None 1-2 3-4 Don't know

        My child can identify practical measures for conserving energy and resources (e.g., turning off necessary lights, tightly turning off faucets, recycling, etc.)


          Not yet Sometimes or a few Consistently or several Don't know

          Your Savvy Quiz Progress

          0% Total % of Questions Answered to Date:

          Visual Arts:0%
          Language Development:0%
          Oral language: 0%
          Nursery rhymes, poems, fingerplays and songs: 0%
          Storybook reading and storytelling: 0%
          Emerging literacy skills in reading and writing: 0%
          Scientific Reasoning and the Physical World:0%
          Music:0%
          Mathematical Reasoning and Number Sense:0%
          Patterns and Classification: 0%
          Geometry: 0%
          Measurement: 0%
          Numbers and number sense: 0%
          Computation: 0%
          Autonomy and Social Skills:0%
          Movement and Coordination:0%
          Orientation in Time and Space:0%

          The Savvy Quiz is adapted from The Core Knowledge Foundation's Preschool Sequence