Preschool Development

Preschooler/Early Childhood Development

Ages 3-6 Years

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Good morning!

Click each of the types of Develpoment before moving onto next page

PHYSICAL

SOCIAL

EMOTIONAL

MORAL

COGNITIVE/INTELLECTUAL

Click the pictures below to learn about ideas to help preschoolers develop. These are part of Piaget's stages.

Supporting Cognitive Development

Your Assignment

Prepare a Preschool Lesson Plan!

For this week's assignment, you will use THIS TEMPLATE to create a Preschool Lesson Plan. You will: 1. Pick a theme 2. Pick a snack 3. Pick 3 activities that support each of the developmental areas. When you are finished, go to the course assignment page to submit and have fun!

For extra credit, complete your activities with a preschooler you know and send a picture to your teacher with a review of how it went!

Physical Development

• Physical growth continues to slow down overall.
• Bodies become straighter and slimmer and the stomach flattens. The neck becomes longer and the legs lengthen and grow straighter and firmer. Start losing baby teeth. Usually show preference for right/left handedness by age of 5.

• Gross Motor Skills: Playing organized sports/games, jumping rope, pump on swing, skip, etc.
• Fine Motor Skills: Buttoning, zipping, writing name, tie shoe etc.

Emotional

• Emotional: Can show defiance, impatience, needing/seeking parent approval, can be loving and affectionate, more independant, language with enthusiasm, tattle tales, starts to separate fact from fantasy, don't like people to laugh at mistakes, don't want to be the baby anymore.
• Erikson's Initiative vs. Guilt stage: Child gains a sense of initiative, engaging in new things!

Moral Development

The process of learning to base one's behavior on beliefs about what is right and wrong. Being a good example (modeling) is the best way to teach it!

• Understanding reasons behind rules, develop conscience, guides behavior to help make proper judgements.
• Caregiver has responsibility to teach moral behavior. Set standards, respond to inappropriate behavior, talk about it to them in private, continue to show love dispite misbehavior.

Cognitive/Intellectual Development

Still in Piaget's Preoperational stage. Learning through play, not as egocentric. Start to understand more abstract terms like respect, love, etc.Deferred Imitation: child imitates as closely as they can actions they have seen before. Ex)a child feeding a baby doll Symbolic Play: child uses symbols for real world as they engage in make-believe play. Involves more imagination and how they feel about the world Drawing: No scribbling anymore, draws recognizable pictures, tyring to represent objects in their world. Mental Images: the child can pull mental images from memory about past experiences. Language: child identifies in their mind the object or person when it is named AND be able to identify them when they see it/them. Understanding more of a difference between fact and fantasy.Understanding the concept of conservation!

Lyvgotsky's focus on each person's thinking is shaped by others around them.

Social

• Social: Participating in more cooperative play/sports of groups 3-6 kids. Can be bossy, fighting/problem-solving common. Can fight with siblings. More outgoing and talkative. Play is more complicated, more respect for others' belongings. Don't like to be different.