Three Year Olds!

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Three Year Olds!
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Physical Development

• Gross Motor Skills
• Throwing, jumping, and hopping skills improve as
  a result of better coordination.
• Their balance is improving, too. Theyre now able
  to go up and down stairs.
• By 36 months of age, childrens catching skills
  become more refined.

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Physical Development

• Fine Motor Skills
• Their cutting skills become more refined. But
  they still cant cut across a straight line.
• Their drawing skills also improve, they can copy
  simple shapes.
• Kids this age love to manipulate blocks and put
  together simple puzzles.

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Cognitive Development

• Language Comprehension Skills
• These children can start to remember and follow
  three-part instructions.
• They begin to understand the pronoun you and
  they.
• They can answer simple questions like Why is the
  girl crying?, Who lives at the north pole?,
  etc.

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Cognitive Development

• Expressive Language Skills
• They now have improved grammar and use sentences
  with 4-5 words.
• They begin to understand the difference between
  past and present tense.
• They also begin to understand possessive nouns.

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Cognitive Development

• Math Readiness Skills
• They start to understand the words full, empty,
  less, etc. They constantly compare things.
• They start counting at this age. They count to
  three while pointing to the corresponding object.

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Social-Emotional Development

• Social Development
• Three year olds are eager to help, especially
  adults. They are learning new ways to show
  concern for others.
• They begin to play with, rather than next to,
  other children.
• They share better than two year olds but they
  dont like to too much.
• They being to learn the difference in genders.

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Social-Emotional Development

• Emotional Development
• They have strong visible emotions. However, they
  are beginning to learn more appropriate ways to
  express these emotions.
• They begin to develop a self-concept. A set of
  beliefs about him or herself.
• These children may become more fearful of pain.
  They may get scared of a dog biting them, etc.

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Teaching Three Year Olds

• They enjoy playing in groups of three and you can
  introduce themes to their play.
• The objects you supply will influence a 3 year
  old. They enjoy being cooks, calling others, etc
• They become independent and feel the need to do
  things for themselves. You should encourage that,
  they need to feel like they can do things for
  themselves.