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Age 2 -3 |
Age 3 - 4 |
Age 4 - 5 |
| Basic Characteristics |
- Playmate-conscious
- beginning parallel play
- Lively humor-Mixed identities, incongruities
- Loves to move
- Loves to play "animal"
- May not be toilet trained
- Very talkative: exuberant
- Confuses reality and pretend
- Often gets stymied, frustrated
- Goes after what he wants, fights for it
- Enjoys discovering about glue, paint
- In art, usually in the scribble/outline/design stage
- Interested in mastery of riding trike, etc.
- Loves contacts with people - especially adults
- Avid "me-tooer" and asserts independence often
- Wants to please adults and conform to expectations
- Activity with drive and purpose
- Spontaneous, loves to touch
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- Cooperative Play with 2 -3 children
- Silly fun loving/silly words
- Likes to move and wiggle
- Loves dramatic play and props
- Hard to interrupt play to go to the bathroom
- Loves to talk and comment: compares and criticizes
- Confuses reality and pretend
- Explosive
- Intolerant and impatient
- Likes of variety of material and has lots of ideas makes recognizable forms
- Likes to do tricks
- Likes to dominate
- Tests limits
- Often goes way out of bounds
- Active until exhaustion
- Loves tactile
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- Play in groups 2 - 5
- Enjoys pointless jokes Silly-loves incongruities
- Body in Motion/swinging
- Loves dramatic play/realistic themes
- Forgets bathroom/wiggles on one foot
- Likes to talk/answers questions
- May have trouble with fantasy and reality
- Less combative than fours
- Hard to admit wrong
- Very creative
- Increased construction abilities
- Enjoys building activities
- Has some hand skills-sewing, beading
- Works to perfect skills-jump rope
- More of a settling in year
- More compliant
- Likes short field trips
- Likes to roughhouse/wrestling
- Loves to play in water
- Loves to experiment/mess about
- Loves to touch-manipulate
- Responds to praise
- Likes school/teacher
- Has a desire to be good
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Art |
- Scribbles at random
- Draws without detail
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- Scribbles and suggests shapes
- Enjoys art as much as play
- Draws a predominance of circular and radial shapes
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- Draws simple recognizable forms
- Show difference between boy and girl
- Uses bright, pure color imaginatively
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| Music |
- Sings parts of songs (usually not on pitch)
- Swings, rocking chairs and other rhythmic equipment can stimulate singing
- Swings arms and bounces at knees in response to music
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- Can sing entire songs (usually not on pitch)
- Sings with groups
- Shows interest in musical instruments
- Jumps, skips, gallops and walks in time to music
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- Can control voice
- Likes to play singing games
- Enjoys dramatizing songs
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Language |
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- 800 -900 words
- Tries new words
- Talks about non-present situations
- Understand 2 directions in sequence
- Puts words into action
- Increasing in expressive language
- Understanding prepositions "in, on, under," etc.
- Using plurals
- Increasing receptive/expressive vocabularies and skills
- Following simple directions
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