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Child Development: Unit 5 Toddler and Preschool

Child Development: Unit 5 Toddler and Preschool. Preschool 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

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Child Development: Unit 5 Toddler and Preschool

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  1. Child Development:Unit 5Toddler and Preschool Preschool Cognitive Development

  2. 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

  3. 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?

  4. 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?

  5. SORTING • Common household objects being put into categories according to similarities. • Examples • Blocks, buttons, silverware, colored items, laundry

  6. CLASSIFYING • Grouping nature objects into categories according to their similarities. • Examples: • Rocks, boys/girls, bathrooms, people characteristics, animals, things in nature

  7. SERIATION • Organizing objects according to increasing or decreasing qualities. • Example • Age, height, weight, length, lining up, building a snowmen, your lockers

  8. TRANSFORMATION • Changing an object’s state. • Example • Popcorn • Water into ice or ice into water, • powder jello mix into jigglyjello 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. PREOPERATIONAL THINKING

  13. Words learned Child asking Concepts learning Caregiver asking E V E R D A Y L E A R N I N G

  14. 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!

  15. 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

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