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Physical
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- Shows more activities by jumping up and down with confidence as the child gains full balance and control.
- Fine motor skills are enhanced and help in recognition and understanding.
- Try to do things themselves such as dressing up, playing, eating etc.
- Can brush teeth.
- Developed eye muscle.
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Social/Emotional
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- Develops a sense of order and neatness.
- Desires to be independent but at the same time desires to interact and communicate with other children of the same age.
- Love to listen and read stories aloud.
- Having imaginary companions is common at this age.
- Start having frequent mood swings.
- Enjoys praise and appreciation
- Responsive towards verbal guidance.
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Intellectual
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- Desire to learn and know different things.
- Try to read everything which comes in sight.
- Sense of exploration enhances.
- Try to match identical objects.
- Can differentiate between one and many objects by counting two digit numbers.
- Memory skills are improved as they can remember things from immediate past and present.
- Observation and retention power increases.
- Can count to five or ten
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Language
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- Speaking skills are improved as they can now speak phrases or sentences having four to six words such as "What is your name?"
- Becomes aware about opposites such as his and her, yes and no, good and bad etc.
- Understands tenses in simple form; present (today), past (yesterday), future (tomorrow).
- Can retain up to 1000 words.
- Able to remember simple rhymes.
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Suggested toys and games :
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- Push-pull and ride-on toys which involves lot of physical activities.
- Toys involving opening-closing, screwing and unscrewing.
- Blocks and cards involving activities like building tower, putting one over another.
- Jigsaw, Form puzzles up to 12 pieces.
- Drawing and coloring books.
- Toys/Games which involves finding out and matching identical objects, similarity in two pictures or opposites.
- Toys/games involving logic, thinking and memory skills (Developing fine motor skills).
- Toys/Games involving recognition, sorting, classification and matching skills.
- Flash-cards of Alphabet, Numbers, Fruits, Transportation etc. Sequencing of events from 2 to 3
- Stuffed animals, Musical instruments & Transportation toys.
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