Vocabulary
Involves matching body movements to coordinate with what the child sees.
What is Visual-motor coordination?
During this time, children's bodies look longer and leaner.
What is physical growth and development?
Children in third and fourth grade face new challenges at school.
What is Cognitive Development?
Some children experience a characteristic growth spurt leading up to puberty.
What is Physical growth and development?
Most children begin school at this age.
What is 5 years old?
Is a person's own assessment or view of himself or herself.
What is Self-concept?
Children at this stage are generally eager to conquer new physical skills.
What is gross-motor skills?
They are able to focus their attention for longer periods of time.
What is Thinking Skills?
The move to middle school means adapting to multiple teachers, more independent learning, and additional homework.
What is cognitive development?
From ages 5-7 children are settled into what?
Elementary school
The ability to place objects in order by characteristic, such as smallest to largest.
What is seriation?
By the time children enter elementary school, their brains are almost at full size.
What is cognitivedevelopment?
Their ability to identify main points, summarize, and make predictions continues to improve.
What is Language and Reading?
The ages 10, 11, and 12 can be a period of calm or a stormy one.
What is socio-emotional development?
Fine-Motor skills
Throwing a ball
The ability to sort items by one or more characteristics they have in common.
What is classification?
This paves the way for improvements in problem solving, planning, and decision making.
What is Thinking Skills?
They are often eager, friendly, and responsible.
What is socio-emotional development?
At times, preteens defy parental authority by talking back, ignoring what parents say, or doing things they know that their parents would not approve of.
What is Family Relationships?
Children ages 10-12 are entering what?
Middle school
Skills used to solve problems.
What is executive strategies?
Children learn letter combinations, and they begin to read whole words.
What is Language and Reading?
Children at this age may have a best friend.
What is peer relationships?
In the meantime, preteens deal with many worries, including school failures, family problems, and possibly the loss of a loved one.
What is Self-Concept?
What do preteens highly value?
Opinions from peers