Ages and Stages

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Ages and Stages- 5 and 6 year olds Louise Moore,
MS Author and Presenter
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Social Characteristics

• Plays cooperatively with peers.
• Can share and take turns
• Identifies with own gender and ethnic group
• Often has best friend
• Likes to show off skills for adults
• Enjoys being a leader
• Identifies with parent likes to imitate them

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Cognitive Development 5-6 year olds

• Dramatic play with attention to detail
• Increasing complex language skills
• Speaks clearly
• Able to draw pictures to represent things.
• Can sequence events
• Expresses ideas, asks questions, engages in
  discussion.

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Physical Traits5-6 year olds

• Coordination improving learning many new skills
• Improved coordination in fingers can use pencil,
  use fork and spoon, brush teeth
• Climbs, skips, hops, jumps.
• Fine motor skills still may lag important to
  encourage art

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Implementation

• Lots of hands on activities.
• Skits and plays are exciting
• Drawing pictures of what they have learned is
  encouraged.
• Working in small groups is best.
• Helping them relate what they learned to their
  home life is important. (developing good habits)

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Connecting to ERS

• May need to do more, shorter sessions
• Evaluate lessons with pictures, show of hands
• Send flyers home to help them apply lessons
• May need extra volunteers to help with activities

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