5 Years

5 Years

1. Physical Development

   • Gross Motor Skills
     • Have increased agility
     • Show good balance
     • Have good co-ordination
     • Can bend at waist and touch their toes without bending knees
     • Can hop2-3m
     • Use variety of play equipment
   • Fine Motor skills
     • Can use a knife and fork competently
     • May be able to thread a large eyed needle and sew with large stitches
     • Have good control over pencils and paint brushes
     • Can draw a person with a head, a body, arms, legs, a nose, a mouth and eyes
     • Can copy elaborate models
     • Can construct elaborate models using kits
     • Can copy a square and at 5.5 years a triangle
     • Can Copy letters 'V','T','H','O','X','L','A','C','U', and 'Y'
     • Can count the fingers on one hand using the index finger of the other
     • Can do jigsaw puzzles with interlocking pieces
   • Sensory
     • Can match ten or twelve colors

2. Emotional and Social development

   • Dress and undress alone
   • Have very definite likes and dislikes
   • Are able to amuse themselves for longer periods of time
   • Show sympathy and comfort friends who are hurt
   • Enjoy caring for pets
   • Choose their own friends

3. Moral and Spiritual development

   • Understand the social rules of their culture
   • Instinctively help other children when they are distressed

4. Cognitive and language development

   • Produce drawing with good detail
   • Ask about abstract words
   • Can give their full name, age and address
   • Are interested in reading and writing
   • Recognize their name and attempt to write it
   • Talk about the past, present and future with good sense of time
   • Are fluent in their speech and grammmartically correct
   • Love to be read stories and will then act them out in detail
   • Enjoy jokes and riddles