Beginning School
Children Ages 5-7
Children Ages 8-9
Children Ages 10-12
Vocab
100

What age do children start formal schooling?

What is five-years-old?

100

By the time children enter __________ school, their brains are almost at full adult size.

What is Elementary?

100

Children who are ages eight and nine are usually in ______ through ______ grade.

What is Second and Fourth?

100

As children move to the next stage, more changes are in store, like moving from elementary to _______________.

What is Middle School?

100

Matching body movements to coordinate with what the child sees.

What is Visual-Motor Coordination? 

200

Children within a single grade may be up to ___ months apart in age.

What is 12?

200

Between ages ___ and ___, children become more logical thinkers.

What is 5 and 7?

200

Socially, eight and nine-year-olds like to be part of a _____.

What is Group?

200

At around 12 years of age, moodiness increases and can cause strain in sibling _____________.

What is Relationships?

200

Able to move forward in accomplishment.

What is Proficient?

300

Each state sets ___ requirements for children to enroll in kindergarten.

What is Age?

300

Development of ___________ skills is better than their fine-motor skills.

What is Gross-Motor?

300

Children should be able to recognize most words by _____.

What is Sight?

300

The terror of rejection is strong at this stage, preteens often become very ____________.

What is Self-Conscious?

300

The ability to place objects in order by characteristic.

What is Seriation?

400

At what grade does half a child’s critical brain development take place?

What is Kindergarten?

400

When practicing fine-motor skills, children’s __________ coordination and dexterity improve.

What is Hand-Eye?

400

Their improving cognitive skills allow them to complete more _______ tasks.

What is Complex?

400

Preadolescents want and need __________, but do not always accept it.

What is Guidance?

400

The ability to understand that relationships between two objects can extend to a third object.

What is Transitivity?

500

What are the first years of school crucial for?

What is Brain Development or School Success?

500

The task at this stage was described as ________________________ by Erik Erikson.

What is Industry Versus Inferiority?

500

Eight and nine-year-olds are in ________‘s concrete operational period.

What is Piaget?

500

One of the most significant changes in the way older children think is the development of _________ strategies.

What is Executive?

500

Skills used to solve problems.

What is Executive Strategies?

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