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Physical
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- Very active with instant response to the activities going around.
- Better control and balance on movements.
- Is now comfortable and confident with up and down, jumping and running activities.
- Becomes curious and like to know new things.
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Social/Emotional
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- Enjoys doing new things
- Sociability increases and makes more friends. Likes to stay and play in groups and with other children.
- Emotional skills are increased such as attachment and love with parents, siblings and others.
- Enjoys the companionship of other children and learns to cooperate while playing.
- Becomes boastful, dogmatic, and bossy and wants to be independent.
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Intellectual
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- Able to name some colors and numbers
- Improves drawing and writing skills
- Concentration, observation, imagination and learning skills are developed tremendously.
- Holds and uses a pencil with good control. Can copy a cross, circle and possibly a square.
- Can rationalize his/her behavior.
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Language
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- Use five to six word sentences
- Knows some basic rules of grammar, such as correctly using “he” and “she”
- Can tell a lengthy story by mixing some fact & fancy.
- Can retain more than 1000 words.
- Begins to read and write alphabet and numbers
- Try to speak a grammatically correct speech.
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Suggested toys and games :
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- Toys involving jumping, running, catching and throwing activities.
- Catch or throw ball and football.
- Toys/Games involving music and entertainment.
- Simple board games.
- Form, Jigsaw and Activity puzzles up to 25 pieces.
- Constructive toys.
- Toys/games that develop vocabulary and awareness in child.
- Toys/games that impart basic skills of learning.
- Toys/games that enhance the child's exploration and searching skills.
- Toys dealing with drawing and coloring like pencil color, crayons and markers.
- Story books, pictorial and narrative books.
- Games that enhance sequential skills.
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