Cardinal directions include north, south, east, and west.

Convention is an accepted practice or agreed-upon rule in representational, spoken, or written language.

Cueing Systems are sets of cues or clues built into the structure or patterns of texts.

General Space is the space within a room or boundaries that the body can travel through, moving away from the original starting space.

Elders, in First Nations communities, are those who have lead an exceptional life based on traditions, customs, and culture of First Nations, and have such qualities as knowledge of heritage and history, sites, practices, ceremonies, protocols, and songs, and are fluent in their language. Elders advocate traditional leadership, governance, and law; are aware of and supportive of Treaty rights and history; acknowledge the diversity of First Nations cultures, languages, and traditions; and work to ensure the intergenerational transfer of traditional First Nations knowledge, history, culture, languages, and practices to youth.

Environment includes the physical, social, and economic environment, including surroundings that are natural and constructed.

Graphophonic Cues and Conventions refer to the sounds of speech (phonology) and how these sounds are organized in patterns, pronounced, and graphically represented (spelled).

Indicators are representative of what children need to know and/or be able to do in order to achieve an outcome. Indicators represent the breadth and the depth of the outcome. The list provided in the curriculum is not an exhaustive list. Educators may develop additional and/or alternative indicators but those educator- developed indicators must be reflective of and consistent with the breadth and depth that is defined by the given indicators.

Indigenous refers to originating in, or native to, a land or region.

Inquiry involves children in some type of exploration, investigation, or experimentation regarding a specific topic, problem, or issue for play, learning, and action. Inquiry is a way of opening up spaces for children's interests and involving them in as many different aspects of a topic, problem, or issue as children can find.

Knowledge Keeper is an individual recognized in the community as learned and displaying great wisdom. In First Nations communities, this person is often an Elder.

Locomotor Skills are skills where the body is moving (traveling) through space. They include such skills as walking, running, leaping, and sliding.

Manipulative Skills are skills that allow the body to interact with objects by sending (e.g., throwing, striking), receiving (e.g., catching, collecting), deflecting, and accompanying (e.g., stick handling).

Metacognition is the ability to think about and reflect on one's own thinking and learning processes.

Movement Activity is the all-inclusive descriptor that includes any form of physical movement including leisure activities such as sand/water play, energy expending activities such as running, and skillful movements such as throwing, aiming, and kicking, used in co-operative and competitive games and sports.

Non-locomotor Skills are skills where the body is moving while remaining in one location (non-traveling). They include such skills as jumping and landing on one spot, balancing, twisting, and bending.

Other Cues and Conventions associated with effective communication include printing, font choices, graphics, illustrations, layout, and additional enhancements such as colour, sound, and movement

Outcome is a statement of what children are expected to know, understand, and be able to do by the end of a particular grade

Performance Cues provide information about specific components of a skill that help the performer move skillfully by transferring the cognitive understanding of the movement to the motor performance, thus increasing the potential for skillful movement.

Pragmatic Cues and Conventions refer to the style of language that is used in a given context and take into consideration the communication purpose, situation, and audience. The pragmatic cueing system is often considered to be the social aspect of language.

Semantic and Lexical Cues and Conventions refer to the meaning and structure of words.

Stewardship is the practice of responsibly tending to the environment.

Storytelling is both a gift, and a very old custom, sanctioned by Aboriginal people. In Aboriginal storytelling, there are many stories that are tied to the teachings of culture, ceremony, and spirituality.

Syntactical Cues and Conventions refer to the structure (word order) and parts of sentences, and the rules (e.g., subject-verb agreement) that govern the sentences.

Text is any form of communication, whether visual, oral, written, or multimedia (including digital media), that constitutes a coherent, identifiable unit or artefact (e.g., poem, poster, conversation, model) with a definable function. It refers to visual forms such as illustrations, videos, and computer displays; oral forms including conversations, speeches, dramatizations; and printed texts in their varied forms.

Textual Cues and Conventions refer to the type or kind of text and the features that are associated with its organization.

Treaty Education , at the Kindergarten level, includes developing understanding of promises, sharing, working together, and beginning to appreciate the relationship of people to each other and to the land

Work includes paid and unpaid chores, volunteer activities, and labour, and is a matter of meeting responsibility as a member of a group.