Thursday, January 18, 2018

What Children Do at This Age


Baby


Birth to 3 months:
  • Begin to smile, tract people and objects with their eyes
  • Prefer faces and the bright colours
  • Turn toward sound
  • Discover feet and hands
 
4 to 6 months:
  • Smile
  • Develop preferences generally to parents and older siblings
  • Repeat actions with interesting results
  • Listen intently
  • Respond when spoken to
  • Laugh and gurgle
  • Imitate sounds
  • Explore hands and feet
  • Put objects in mouth
  • Sit when propped
  • Roll over
  • Grasp objects without using thumb
 
7 to 12 months :
  • Remember simple events
  • Identify themselves and body parts, and familiar voices
  • Understand their own name and other common words
  • Say first meaningful words
  • Explore objects and hidden objects
  • Put objects in containers
  • Sit alone
  • Put themselves up to stand and walk
 
1 to 2 years :
  • Imitate adult actions
  • Speak and understand words and ideas
  • Experiment with objects
  • Walk steadily, climb stairs and run
  • Recognize ownership of objects
  • Develop friendships
  • Solve problems
  • Show pride in accomplishments
  • Begin pretend play
 
2 to 3,5 years :
  • Enjoy learning new skills
  • Learn language rapidly
  • Gain increase control of hands and fingers
  • Act more independently
 
3,5 to 5 years :
  • Develop a longer attention span
  • Talk a lot, ask many questions
  • Test physical skills and courage with caution
  • Reveal  feeling in dramatic play
  • Like to play with friends, don't like to lose, share and take turns sometimes
 
5 to 8 years :
  • Gain curiosity about people and how the world works
  • Show more interest in numbers, letters, reading and writing
  • Gain more convidence and use words to express feelings and cope
  • Play cooperatively
  • Develop interest in final products

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