- Toys for this group enhance a plentitude of skills, including social play, reasoning, long-term memory, visual perception and classification, listening and communication.
- Kids at this age start needing bigger-sized and/or complex toys, so you’ll find that increase in toy sizes reflected in our offerings.
- A wide array of toys is suitable here, including intricate construction sets, playset, multiplayer games such as dominoes, advance matching games and card games.
Demonstration of Skills |
Fine Motor | Language and Math | Cognitive | Social and Emotional |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start to use one hand consistently for fine motor tasks | Vocabulary of 4,000 – 6,000 words | Play with words, imitate and create sounds, and make rhymes | Show some awareness of moral reasoning, such as “fairness”, and good or bad behavior | |
| Build things with smaller linking blocks | Interested in written words, letters and numbers. | Matches and sorts objects in a large variety of ways | Enjoy imaginative play with other children, such as dress up or house | |
| Point to and name many colors and shapes | Learn to identify a few letters and numbers | Get better at sharing and taking turns with other children | ||
| Count objects up to 5 | Stay with an activity for 11-12 minutes | Enjoy playing games, but might change the rules as he goes | ||
| Stick with a difficult task for longer period (controlling frustration or anger better) | ||||
| Play games with simple rules |