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Physical
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- Involves in various group games and activities.
- Becomes very active and noisy.
- Physical growth slows down
- Permanent teeth begin to appear.
- Enjoy listening to music and understand rhythm.
- Sometimes try to imitate the behavior and actions of elders.
- In this period the child needs more encouragement, understanding, love, care and praise from elders.
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Social/Emotional
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- Need encouragement to communicate feelings and thoughts.
- Likes to interact and exchange ideas.
- Social activities also show tremendous increase by going to school and making friends.
- Wants to play with other children and wants to be a part of group.
- Becomes indecisive and independent.
- Begin to have social personality.
- Likes to compete.
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Intellectual
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- Try to do everything themselves to understand the logic.
- Wants to learn and know more.
- Learns and retains more facts and concepts. .
- Multi-Sensory skills are enhanced.
- Learning, reading, writing and thinking skills are enhanced.
- Retention and memory power improves and can remember complex processes.
- Learns from observing and experiencing.
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Language
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- Is more speech conscious and tries to speak more fluently, with confidence and grammatically correct.
- Understands and answers correctly.
- Can now retain more than 3000 words.
- Can now speak any kind of sentence or phrase, be it short and long.
- Knows the names of days of week
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Suggested toys and games :
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- Board games.
- Jigsaws, form, activity and floor puzzle up to 100 pieces.
- Dolls, stuff toys, puppets and doll-accessories like dollhouse, doctor-play etc.
- Constructive toys.
- Games and toys involving Art, Crafts and S.U.P.W .
- Educational games dealing in general knowledge, quizzing, story telling etc.
- Books that enhance reading and understanding skills i.e., fine motor skills.
- Games which deal in developing vocabulary and language skills.
- Games and toys that build number and alphabets skills.
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