Developmental Milestones

ages 5-8

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Social Milestones

SOCIALEMOTIONALLANGUAGEPHYSICAL COGNITIVE

Cooperative Playing, Sharing and Taking Turns with others

• At age five, children should have learned to share with others, learn to take turns and treat others the way they want to be treated. The day will not only go well for that child, but the other children and teacher as well if this milestone is met.

Understanding Consequences

• Children must know right from wrong when they enter school. Children must also understand that their may be a punishment in the case of wrong doing. Sometimes children need to be reminded, in a positive manner that they are doing something wrong.

Enjoy Playing Alone

• While learning to play well with others, children must also be able to play alone and enjoy doing so. Playing alone is a good time for children to reflect and use their imagination. There are times when children are not able to play with other children, so learning to be self –sufficient.

Can Dress Themselves

• Children learning to dress themselves not only helps them become more independent but gives the parent five extra minutes in the morning, too. Children should be able to match clothing, and wear appropriate clothing based on the weather by the time they get to be school aged.

Competitive Spirit

• By the time children are school aged, their compassion about their interest rises. Children become more driven to win and want to do their best in everything.

Befriend Opposite Gender Friends

• As children begin elementary school, they start becoming closer friends with children of the same gender. They start forming different groups of friends and usually are all boys or girls.

Sense of Humor

• Children begin to start having a sense of humor when they begin school. They often come up with witty, and quick things to respond with when talked to.

Chores

• As children develop, learning responsibility is important. Sometimes, when reach elementary school parents may start giving them chores to do either weekly, or daily like taking out the trash, feeding the dog, making their bed etc.

Separates from Parents with Ease

• By the time children get to school, it may become easier for them to separate from their parent for the day. Children can suffer from separation anxiety but the older the child gets, they realize the parent does come back at the end of the day.

Can be Motivated by Money

• As for anyone, children can be motivated by money. If a child wants something at a school book fair, the child could do a chore at home to earn money to bring to the book fair.

Emotional Milestones

Show jealousy toward siblings

• Children will seek attention from adults and be jealous of siblings and classmates. The emotion of feeling

• Helping a child deal effectively with jealousy at a young age can help him deal with similar feelings he may experience in adulthood.

Understand their own feelings

Teach children to recognize when they have a specific feeling. Whether happy, sad, or angry the first step in coping with a feeling is identifying it. Help children identify feelings by discussing emotions when they occur.

Are able to use words to describe their own feelings.

• Teach and encourage your child to express their feelings, particularly when they show non-verbal signs of negative emotion: a slumped posture, prolonged fatigue, or obvious facial expressions.

Show empathy and offer to help when they see another in

distress

• As their emotions develop and get stronger the feelings of others develop and they begin to care and show feeling for others.

Form a sense of humor and enjoy telling jokes.

• Laughing together is a way to connect, and a good sense of humor also can make kids smarter, healthier, and better able to cope with challenges.

Likes to sing, dance, and act.

Children that cooperate in singing, dancing, and acting do better in reading. Learn coordination, goal-setting, concentration, and cooperation. Are more likely to do better in math and science because music helps build reasoning skills and cognitive development, which are important to both. Getting along better with their peers and have higher self-esteem and are more likely to go to college.

Emotions change quickly.

• Anger outburst are frequent, short duration, forgotten quickly.

• Sometimes emotions will change just to get what they want or they are unsure of what to do with the emotion or situation.

Expresses emotions freely and openly

Extremes:• Shy/Bold• Affectionate/AntagonisticTo express your feelings openly and freely means to say what you mean and mean what you say. It is not healthy to not vent. So it is a good thing to your feelings encourage children to express their feelings.

Responsibility and Guilt

• When children figure out there routine they will know when and what to do and feel a sense of responsibility. Also giving simple “chores/responsibilities” in the home and classroom will make them feel responsible as well. Guilt comes when they know that they have done something wrong and do not feel good about it. Examples would be they won't look you in the eye, slinks away -- or gets sad if she senses you're disappointed in her.

Loves adventure, excitement, anything new.

• Children love to experience new things and have a fun time. By having fun they are learning at the same time. New things intrigue them and keep them interested

Language Milestones

Speech and writing starts to lengthen

• Can speak 5-8 word sentences as well as speaking fluently with plurals, pronouns, tenses. Also using compound and complex sentences in writing.

Word Count grows day by day

• Children this age have a vocabulary of over 2000 words. Like “who”, “me”, “you”, “it”, and grows each day by 5 to 10 words .

Telling Story

• Being able to read more helps them to tell longer stories and also to connect the story with the picture that they see. It is easier to understand what the child is talking about, made up or not.

• Between the 5 to 8 year of age they should know these consonants

• f,v,sh,zh,th• s-z, r voiceless th, ch, wh,

Knowing Consonants

• When children start talking at this age, they tend to talk nonstop, tell all kinds of stories and ask many questions. They also make up stories to tell.

• Some kids use their words when wanting something, others might throw tantrums to get their way.

• Kids that would use their words might say things like “That’s mine”, “give it back”, or call another child “dummy”

Loving to talk Words rather than tantrums

• Children are able to say their name, phone number, address. If someone came up to a kid and asked these questions. They would be able to reply.

Knows important information Learning different language

• In kindergarten, children start to speak what language that is taught to them. They are very capable of learning more languages.

• Kids that live in a bilingual household find it is a lot easier to pick up.

• When using art, it helps with knowing color and shapes being able to identify if were asked. Example: A teach ask a student what color did you color the tree. The student is able to know that the tree was green by using art.

• School age children love to sing to music. They enjoy singing to a song that have melodies, and rhythms. This all helps with learning and remembering more word.

Using art to help with Language skills

Singing to music

Cognitive Milestones

• The children in this age group are now able to identify basic shapes and primary colors

• Hand in hand with being able to identify shapes and colors comes the ability to sort said categories in any combination

The ability to sortStart to be able to identify

• The concepts of highest, largest, smallest, equal, etc. become clear and children can respond quickly when asked to differentiate

• Children will start listening more intently and respond to stories as well start to understand the meanings behind said stories

The concepts of size Story understanding

• Children gain the ability to read basic books with a few words per page and are able to recognized words that sound alike

• At the end of 4 years and beginning of 5 years of age children are able to recognize and write all letters of the alphabet and over half of the alphabets capital letters as well as write their name and a handful of words

Reading skills Writing skills

• Children are able to count at least 1-20 and are able to identify the numerals 1-10 as well as write said numerals. The ability to divide in half develops

• Children begin to understand volume and are able to point out the container that will hold more/less

Math skills Understand volume

• Children begin to understand the concept of time and are able to understand how night and day tie into time. The skill of telling time begins to appear

• Children are able to understand the concept of currency and differentiate between the coins and their values

The concept of time Currency understanding

Physical Milestones

Showing Flexability and Strength

Showing that they can control their small muscles, for examples their fingers. They should be able to button, zip, an tie their shoes

Climbing, Jumping, hopping, running, and skipping using different feet

Children should be able to be able to balance themselves to sit in a chair properly and stand for periods of time. They should be able to participate is recess

Knows Their right from their left and being able to use one side of the body without difficulty

Being able to use scissors without any help and know their right side from their left side

Mimic MovementsBeing able to copy another individuals movements in all directions by going zigzag, backwards, forwards, and sideways.

Hand and eye coordination

Being able to build with building blocks, stringing small beads, and pouring sand or liquids into a container.

Getting Dressed

Being able to get dressed and brush teeth without any assistance from their parents

Eating

Being able to eat food with minimal spills from a cup or silverware

Movement

Knows the difference between slow and fast movement Ex: Tag, Red Light-Green Light

Activities They Should Engage In

They should be able to ride a bike with training wheels and be able to throw underhand and hit a ball with a plastic bat

Technology

They should be able to use a computer mouse and use a keyboard with little assistance

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