1. Intellectual Development
0-5 Years.

2. Ready to learn
Choose three pictures that would be relevant to children in the 0-5 age range and answer the questions that go with them in sentences

3. Child Development and Care
Intellectual development

4. LOFT
A* - A -Explain why it is important for early years workers to understand the pattern of children's holistic development from birth to 5 years
B – illustrate using examples the expected pattern of intellectual development for children 0-5
C-D - Describe the expected pattern of intellectual development of children aged 0-5 years
Bronze
Silver
Gold
Describe the expected pattern of intellectual development of children aged 0-5 years
illustrate using examples the expected pattern of intellectual development for children 0-5
Explain why it is important for early years workers to understand the pattern of children's holistic development from birth to 5 years

5. What is intellectual development?
Intellectual development is about how children learn, think and develop ideas.
It is an interesting area of development, and is one in which research continues to broaden our knowledge.
It is hard to give an accurate picture of children’s development especially as children become older. This is because children’s development will be strongly shaped by the different factors.
Bronze
Silver
Gold
Describe the expected pattern of intellectual development of children aged 0-5 years
illustrate using examples the expected pattern of intellectual development for children 0-5
Explain why it is important for early years workers to understand the pattern of children's holistic development from birth to 5 years

6. Experience Language Interests
Factors affecting a Childs intellectual development
Experience
The more experiences a child has the faster their intellectual development will be
For example if an adult points out different colours of things the child will learn colours more quickly.
Language
Children with good language skills will develop thinking skills more readily because we use language to think
For example when we think we often talk to ourselves to organise our thoughts. A child with good language skills will problem solve more easily
Interests
As a child get older their development is linked to their subject or interest preferences
A child who enjoys maths is likely to learn maths more easily.
Bronze
Silver
Gold
Describe the expected pattern of intellectual development of children aged 0-5 years
illustrate using examples the expected pattern of intellectual development for children 0-5
Explain why it is important for early years workers to understand the pattern of children's holistic development from birth to 5 years

7. Individual Task For example
Create a powerpoint that explains intellectual development O-5 years.
Find and use appropriate images to illustrate each stage of development.
For example
12 – 18 months - Learning by trial and error
banging two cubes together to find out
what noise they make
Bronze
Silver
Gold
Describe the expected pattern of intellectual development of children aged 0-5 years
illustrate using examples the expected pattern of intellectual development for children 0-5
Explain why it is important for early years workers to understand the pattern of children's holistic development from birth to 5 years

8. Homework Create your Powerpoint based on Intellectual Development.
Move through the stages of Bronze, Silver and Gold.
Bronze – Description – Tell
Silver – Give a written example and add an image to show your understanding.
Gold - A Challenge for you to consider if you can??? (Separate slide)
Bronze
Silver
Gold
Describe the expected pattern of intellectual development of children aged 0-5 years
illustrate using examples the expected pattern of intellectual development for children 0-5
Explain why it is important for early years workers to understand the pattern of children's holistic development from birth to 5 years

9. Review your LOFT
A* - A -Explain why it is important for early years workers to understand the pattern of children's holistic development from birth to 5 years
B – illustrate using examples the expected pattern of intellectual development for children 0-5
C-D - Describe the expected pattern of intellectual development of children aged 0-5 years

10. • Watching adults closely • Exploring by using the mouth and by touch
Age
Play and learning development
0–6 months
• Watching adults closely
• Exploring by using the mouth and by touch
• Playing alone with toys such as rattles and baby gyms
6–12 months
• Watching and copying adults
• Repeating movements such as dropping a rattle
• Enjoying simple games such as peek-a-boo
• Exploring toys alone
12–18 months
• Learning through trial and error, e.g. banging two cubes and discovering the sound it makes
• Repeating actions that they have enjoyed
• Beginning to play with adults and notice other children
• Playing and ‘talking’ alone
18 months –
2 years
• Learning through trial and error
• Imitating other children and adults
• Exploring things with mouth
• Possibly carrying out repetitive actions, e.g. putting things in and out of boxes or scribbling on several pages
• Watching other children but not joining in
• Enjoying playing with adults as well as by themselves
2–3 years
• Beginning to show some reasoning skills and asking questions such as ‘why’
• Starting to concentrate for longer on a play activity that interest them
• Recognising shapes and letters
• Solving jigsaw puzzles through a mixture of reasoning and trial and error
• Playing cooperatively together and taking turns
• Playing imaginatively, e.g. playing in the home corner, dressing up
4–6 years
• Showing more understanding and using reason based on their experiences
• Starting to use and understand symbols, e.g. writing and reading
• Starting to understand simple rules in games
• Playing cooperatively, taking turns and enjoying table-top games

11. Intellectual Development
0-12 Months
Intellectual Development
1 month
‘freezes’ on hearing a soft sound, such as tune from a cot mobile
3 months
Is more alert
Will follow movements of objects if they are close by
Recognises parts of familiar routines, for example, becoming excited on hearing the sound of water for a bath
6 months
Explores objects by handling them and mouthing them
Recognises voices
9 months
Begins to look for things that are put out of sight
12 months
Enjoys dropping things such as toys to the ground and watching them fall
Will repeat actions if pleasurable and interesting. This approach is called trial and error learning

12. 12 – 36 months Intellectual Development (12 months- 3 years) 15 months
is interested in the sight and sound of objects and is keen to explore
may still be exploring by putting objects in the mouth, although with less frequency than before
18 months
is very curious and constantly explores objects and how things work
remembers where objects that are used often belong, for example will get spoon from a drawer or put toy back in a toy box
2 years
recognises self in a mirror and knows that this is not another child
can remember things that have happened in the past and shows this by remembering actions, skills, toys and people
2 ½ years
can point to a photograph of self
can complete a simple puzzle with some help
3 years
is starting to understand the difference between past and present
can complete a puzzle with 12 pieces

13. 36-60 months Intellectual Development (3- 5 years ) 3-4 years
can recognise and name primary colours- blue, red, and yellow
understands what is mean by ‘more’
can tell whether an object is heavy or light
arranges objects into categories
makes connections between people and event
4-5 years
can count accurately up to 10
can add two sets of objects together
can match equal sets of objects, for example, which two boxes have the same number of beakers
can understand the need for rules
names times of day associated with different everyday activities, for example, bedtime is at night