CHILD DEVELOPMENT:UNIT 5

TODDLER AND PRESCHOOLPreschool 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 learnedChild askingConcepts learningCaregiver asking

EVERDAY

LEARNING

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