Your preschooler is now able to focus their attention more accurately and is less influenced by distractions. The intensity of questions increase as your child develops a strong curiosity for the world around them. By this stage, your child will have increased memory skills which counts for a big part of their learning. Your preschooler will also be able to retain two or three pieces of information while acting on them.
Cognitive Development Milestones
- describes pictures in detail
- able to identify and name primary colours
- understands concepts of sorting, grouping and matching
- recognizes own name in print
- increased concentration
- begins to draw a person adding much detail to the body
- counts chronologically from 1 to 10
- can count 10 or more objects
- understands the concept of time
- knows their physical address and home telephone number
- makes their own rhyming words
- mimic sounds and creates their own sounds or words
- learns rules of behaviour and reasons behind them
- understands opposites (e.g. big/little)
- understands positional words (middle, end)
- uses objects and materials to build or construct things, e.g. block tower, puzzle, clay, sand and water
- builds a tower eight to ten blocks
- answers simple questions
- counts five to ten things
- has a longer attention span
- talks to self during play - to help guide what he/she does
- follows simple instructions
- follows simple rules and enjoys helping
- may write some numbers and letters
- engages in dramatic play, taking on pretend character roles recalls events correctly
- touches objects to count
- starts to understand relationship between numbers and objects
- can recount a recent story
- copies letters and may write some
- identify and name secondary colours
- learns through observations and social interactions
- understands order and process
- recognizes most letters of the alphabet
- knows what common objects are used for
By now, preschoolers have a higher level of concentration which will enable them to complete and engage in more challenging tasks. A genuine understanding of numbers develops and preschoolers will begin to consider concepts such as shapes and colours in more detail.
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