PRESCHOOLER’S PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT Flashcards
is commonly known as “the years before formal schooling begins”. Covers 3-5 age.
Preeschooler Years
( Climbs well
( Runs easily
( Pedals a tricycle
( Walks up and down stairs, one foot on each step
( Washes and dries hands
AGE 3
( Hops and stands on one foot up to 2 seconds
( Pours, cuts with supervision, and mashes own food
( Catches a bounced ball most of the time
( Draws a person with two to four body parts
( Uses scissors
AGE 4
( Stand on one foot for 10 seconds or longer
( Hops, and may be able to skip
( Can do a somersault
( Uses a fork and spoon and sometimes a table knife
AGE 5
FACTORS THAT AFFECT PHYSICAL GROWTH IN YOUNG CHILDREN:
BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
HEREDITY
NUTRITION
CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
The three category of gross motor skills
Locomotor
Non-Locomotor
Manipulative Skills
are those skills that involve going from one place to another.
Locomotor
Those skills where the child stays at place
Non-Locomotor Skills
Are those skills that involve projecting and receiving objects
Manipulative Skills
Refers to the ability to use the smaller muscles in the arm, hands and fingers purposefully.
Fine Motor Development
He studied the motor Activity and came up with the stages of drawing in early childhood
Victor Lowenfeld
What are the three stages of drawing in early childhood
- Scribbling stage.
- Preschematic Stage
- Schematic Stage
The two Sub stages of Piaget’s operational thought:
•Symbolic Stages
•Intuitive Stages
In this stage, Preschool children show progress in their cognitive abilities by being able to draw objects that are not present, by their dramatic increase in their language and make believe-play.
Symbolic Stages
In this stage, preschool begin to use primitive reasoning and ask litany questions.
Intuitive Stages
The 4 Main Areas of Language
- Phonology - study of speech and sounds.
- Semantics - study of word meaning and word combination.
- Syntax - the study of sentence constructions.
- Pragmatics - the study of conversation or social uses of language.
a process by which children absorb the meaning of a new word after hearing it once or twice in conversation.
Fast Mapping
In this theory, Vygotsky believed that young children use language both to communicate socially and to plan, guide and monitor their behavior in a self-regulatory fashion- called INNER SPEECH or PRIVATE SPEECH.
Vygotsky’s Socio-cultural Theory
Refers to individual’s thought about how mental processes works.
Theory of Mind
The child is able to understand both verbal and non-verbal forms of communication.
Receptive Language
The child is able to match identical objects, colors, shapes and symbols.
PRE- READING AND PRE-MATH (Matching)