1. FOUR & FIVE YEAR OLDS Part 1

2. Physical Development Physical skills become easier because bodies are becoming ______________________ Strength and ______________________ increase By 5 ½ yrs., legs are ______________________

3. Physical Development – cont’d ______________________ are becoming harder and stronger Diets should include lots of good sources for ______________________ These items ______________________ in the proper ______________________ teeth

4. Gross Motor Development Children this age use previously acquired skills to perform ______________________ At 4, children can ______________________ alternating feet Near the ______________________, some children may begin to skip

5. Gross Motor Development Throwing and ______________________ improve. Most children in this age range can throw a ball ______________________(up until this age, they throw ______________________) Improvement in this area is ______________________ that makes motor and visual coordination better.

6. Fine Motor Development It becomes easier to ______________________, work with small games and ______________________ pieces By four, most children can complete a puzzle with ______________________ By age five, they can complete puzzles ______________________ ______________________ skills improve during this time

7. Fine Motor Development-cont’d Letter recognition develops, so children can now tell the difference between ______________________. Letters that are ______________________ are particularly difficult for fours and fives Example: ______________________ …sometimes p, too Five year olds enjoy ______________________ and tracing things as their small motor coordination improves.

8. Self help skills Fours and fives become more ______________________ They can ______________________ with little or no help. By 4, most children can ______________________. By 5, some children can even manage buttoning or fastening items on the ______________________.

9. Self help skills Children this age can ______________________ and enjoy helping with serving others. By 4, most children will begin to cut soft foods with the side of a ______________________. Most 5 year olds can ______________________. Fours and fives are also getting better at performing ______________________ with little or no help (e.g.; brushing teeth and hair)

10. Social-emotional development Fours and fives continue to be very ______________________ As their language develops, they become more ______________________ ______________________ at this age, so they begin to recognize what makes them happy, sad, mad, etc.

11. Social-emotional development ______________________ is very ______________________ to four and five year olds. Likewise, friendship, approval and attention are important They enjoy playing alone and with others, but may ______________________ in their play at this age They ______________________ and generally only have a few good friends by this time.

12. Social-emotional development Children this age recognize and ______________________ They understand that adults have rules and they will generally ______________________. They will often ask ______________________ before doing certain activities.

13. Social-emotional development Four and five year olds begin to understand that there are other ways to ______________________ contact (e.g.; hugs) They understand that ______________________, too They also see sharing as a sign of caring and they expect to see this extended to themselves. A ______________________ begins to develop at this age.

14. Fear ______________________, but most fears only last a month or two. Fears also change a lot during this stage. Children this age are still afraid of ______________________ Dreams can be very ______________________ this age simply because they seem so real

15. Fear – cont’d Five year olds tend to be more afraid of things that can ______________________ than younger children are Children in this age ______________________ (e.g.; if afraid of dogs, may act like a ferocious dog)

16. Anger Fours and fives are more likely to ______________________ to express anger than to hit or kick However, some children will still react ______________________ simply because they’ve never been taught how to respond appropriately They are angered by the same things younger children are, but they can also become angry if ______________________

17. Jealousy ______________________ can be a problem for four and five year olds, but is generally geared toward new brothers or sisters ______________________ can manifest in different ways. ______________________ to earlier behaviors (crying to get attention, etc) Illnesses ______________________ issues (bed wetting, etc) Children need to be ______________________ that they are still loved

18. sadness Children learn that some things ______________________ The concept of ______________________ is beginning to be understood ______________________ Children need to be taught that it is okay to ______________________ about their feelings

19. Cognitive development Four and five year olds can now ______________________ without having to work them out through experiences They can think ______________________ at this age Language ______________________ language skills improve

20. Cognitive development-cont’d Four and five year olds will begin to draw things that ______________________ instead of just scribbling They are eager to know ______________________ and ask a lot of questions along this line They can ______________________ better by this stage A good preschool program will promote ______________________ in a variety of ways

21. language Fours and fives begin to understand the ______________________ and will use more words to describe the relationship of one thing to another (over, under, down, etc.) They begin to understand the difference between ______________________ They still think very ______________________, though, and may become ______________________ when words/phrases have more than one meaning (e.g.; “flew out the door”)

22. Language – cont’d Fours and fives ______________________ generally read, but they can recognize and name the letters of the alphabet. They may recognize their own ______________________, too. They enjoy having ______________________ to them over and over again

23. Language – cont’d Children this age tend to talk to you rather than ______________________ with you They may even make comments that are completely ______________________ to each other By this age most children can ______________________ well, however, they may still have trouble with ch and th sounds

24. Language – cont’d ______________________ is the ability to speak clearly pronounced sounds. ______________________ may develop at this age. ______________________ is usually the result of thinking faster than they can speak

25. Language – cont’d ______________________ includes repeating sounds or words and pausing for unusually long times while speaking. At four, most children have a vocabulary of about ______________________ words. This grows to ______________________ by age five

26. math ______________________ is reciting numbers in their ______________________ order By age 5, most children can count to ______________________, but learning how to rote count doesn’t mean they understand that a ______________________ a certain amount As they develop, they begin to be able to ______________________, but this takes time and at this stage, most children can only ______________________ three or four objects before getting confused.