- Your socially developing preschooler is further developing his/her cognitive skills with advanced matching and grouping, memory skills, story-telling and creativity.
- Creative playset toys at this age stimulate socio-emotional skills via imagination and role playing.
- Building constructions with small blocks, stringing beads, enhanced pincer grip and managing buttons are excellent activities for this age to advance fine-motor skills
- Advanced language and logical mathematical intelligence develops at this age using complex shapes and sizes, sequencing and measuring time
Demonstration of Skills |
Fine Motor | Language and Math | Cognitive | Social and Emotional |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Build a tower of 9-10 small blocks | Has a vocabulary of 900 or more words | Be able to sort and match things | Share toys, taking turns with help | |
| Use play dough to make balls, snakes, cookies, etc. | Follow a 3 part command | Sort by size, size, color, shape, etc. | Has real friendships and understands the causes of feelings | |
| Build things with large linking blocks | Name one color | Identify parts of a whole, such as the wheel of the car | Initiate or join in play with other children and make up games | |
| String beads, Manage buttons | Is developing number concepts – can give you 1, more, or all of something | Have a basic understanding of time, know the difference between past and present | Follow simple rules in games, but will always want to win | |
| Count objects, even if they don’t have all the numbers correct. | Play with an activity for a longer stretch of time (5-15 minutes) | Show more independence |