Beginning School
What age do children start formal schooling?
What is five-years-old?
By the time children enter __________ school, their brains are almost at full adult size.
What is Elementary?
Children who are ages eight and nine are usually in ______ through ______ grade.
What is Second and Fourth?
As children move to the next stage, more changes are in store, like moving from elementary to _______________.
What is Middle School?
Matching body movements to coordinate with what the child sees.
What is Visual-Motor Coordination?
Children within a single grade may be up to ___ months apart in age.
What is 12?
Between ages ___ and ___, children become more logical thinkers.
What is 5 and 7?
Socially, eight and nine-year-olds like to be part of a _____.
What is Group?
At around 12 years of age, moodiness increases and can cause strain in sibling _____________.
What is Relationships?
Able to move forward in accomplishment.
What is Proficient?
Each state sets ___ requirements for children to enroll in kindergarten.
What is Age?
Development of ___________ skills is better than their fine-motor skills.
What is Gross-Motor?
Children should be able to recognize most words by _____.
What is Sight?
The terror of rejection is strong at this stage, preteens often become very ____________.
What is Self-Conscious?
The ability to place objects in order by characteristic.
What is Seriation?
At what grade does half a child’s critical brain development take place?
What is Kindergarten?
When practicing fine-motor skills, children’s __________ coordination and dexterity improve.
What is Hand-Eye?
Their improving cognitive skills allow them to complete more _______ tasks.
What is Complex?
Preadolescents want and need __________, but do not always accept it.
What is Guidance?
The ability to understand that relationships between two objects can extend to a third object.
What is Transitivity?
What are the first years of school crucial for?
What is Brain Development or School Success?
The task at this stage was described as ________________________ by Erik Erikson.
What is Industry Versus Inferiority?
Eight and nine-year-olds are in ________‘s concrete operational period.
What is Piaget?
One of the most significant changes in the way older children think is the development of _________ strategies.
What is Executive?
Skills used to solve problems.
What is Executive Strategies?