CHILD DEVELOPMENT UNIT 5 TODDLER AND PRESCHOOL Preschool

CHILD DEVELOPMENT: UNIT 5 TODDLER AND PRESCHOOL Preschool Cognitive Development

List major cognitive milestones for a preschooler � 3 Year Old � � � � � Short sentences 896 Words Great growth in communication Tells simple stories Uses words as tool of thought Answers questions Imaginative May recite few nursery rhymes 4 Year Old � � � � Uses complete sentences 1540 words Asks endless questions Learning to generalize Highly imaginative Dramatic Can draw recognizable objects

Pre-schoolers all over the United States were shown this picture asked the same question. � � Which way is the bus below traveling? To the left or to the right? Can't make up your mind? Look carefully at the picture again. Still don't know?

� 90% of the pre-schoolers said: 'The bus is traveling to the left. ' When asked, “Why do you think the bus is traveling to the left? ” They answered: � “Because you can't see the door to get on the bus. ” How does it make you feel?

SORTING � Common household objects being put into categories according to similarities. � Examples � Blocks, buttons, silverware, colored items, laundry

CLASSIFYING � � Grouping nature objects into categories according to their similarities. Examples: � Rocks, boys/girls, bathrooms, people characteristics, animals, things in nature

SERIATION � � Organizing objects according to increasing or decreasing qualities. Example � Age, height, weight, length, lining up, building a snowmen, your lockers

TRANSFORMATION � � Changing an object’s state. Example � Popcorn � Water into ice or ice into water, � powder jello mix into jiggly jello and then adding hot water to the jello to turn it back into a liquid, � growing older with age, � a seed into a plant, � dough into bread

REVERSAL � � Building or doing and then undoing it Example � Zip and unzip, � build a sand castle and wreck it, � block tower and wreck it, � tie and untie

CONSERVATION � � Understanding that an objects physical dimensions and amounts remain the same even though its appearance changes Example � Pouring liquid from one cup into another shaped cup. Smashing a cookie dough ball or playdough, 2 different shaped cookies or containers of food

SEQUENCING � � Step by step pattern of event put into correct order. Example � Directions in cooking, a story, � a snowman being built and then melting into water, � following correct order to performing a task � Your class schedule or job responsibilities

PREOPERATIONAL THINKING

Words learned Child asking Concepts learning Caregiver asking E V E R D A Y L E A R N I N G

Cognitive Terms � Group 1: Terms 1 -9 � Group 2: Terms 10 -18 � Find the answers in your groups and we will share as a class in 15 minutes!

This is what you should be doing. . . � Teaching/Observing/Prep � Finish Preschool Labs (LAST DAY) � � Doing Book Evaluation(BOOKS ON FRONT DESK) Color Brown Bear