ED 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Playtime, Logical Reasoning
1 Feb 2017
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All children are individuals and have unique skills and abilities. Children come from different cultural, faith and socio-economic backgrounds. Physical development: increase in gross motor functioning and come fine motor skills. Personal care competence increases highly influenced by environment. Personal care competence means to be able to address themselves (tie shoes, zip coat) Cognitive development: colors, letters and number recognition, short term memory improvement a(cid:374)d a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) to (cid:272)(cid:396)eate (cid:862)pla(cid:455)(cid:863) (cid:449)ith othe(cid:396)s. high (cid:448)a(cid:396)ia(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) i(cid:374) age of a(cid:272)(cid:395)uisitio(cid:374) based on family situation and cultural factors. Socio- emotional development: ability to share and show empathy increases. Interactions with peers varies based on family practices. Physical development: continued increase in gross motor functioning and fine motor skills including writing, complex physical skills (hitting/ throwing a ball), and playing musical instruments. Cognitive development: logical reasoning (concrete) and acquisition of basic reading, writing and computation skills. Individual progress varies based on environmental factors and degree of modelling. Socio- emotional development: importance of peer comparisons increases.
