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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. Preschoolers all over the  United States  were shown this picture and 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.

  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. 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

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

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

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

  9. 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 play dough, 2 different shaped cookies or containers of food.

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. COGNITIVE BREAK 1. Unfinished Picture 2. Matching terms - How many do you know? Pop popcorn

  13. Comic-why Picture questions 3 little pigs Tea party Popcorn maker Bunny math Comic-dough Flour/flower Check list Comic-bug

  14. PREOPERATIONAL THINKING

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

  16. Answers Cognitive Terms • 1. Language ability • Q. This reveals a child’s intellectual development: how they think, their interests, and their personalities. • 2. Preoperational Stage • A. Jean Piaget said that preschoolers are in this cognitive stage • 3. Experiment • L. Allow children to explore and _________. This is how they learn about their world. • 4. Parental Attitude • O. This largely influences a preschoolers enjoyment in reading, learning, school, art, music… • 5. Everyday Experiences • F. Preschoolers learn best by participation and involvement in these. • 6. Chores • K. Preschoolers need to be included in ______and daily clean up tasks around the house.

  17. Cognitive Terms • 7. Symbols • B. In the preoperational stage, a preschooler learns that these represent objects and words. • 8. Limited Focus • E. A preoperational form where kids find it hard to concentrate on more than one feature of an object at a time. • 9. Problem Solving • P. Preschoolers begin to develop this skill as their cognitive abilities improve. • 10. Reading Stories • N. Spending time doing this with kids is an effective way to introduce them to reading. It makes learning easier and more fun. • 11. Talk • G. Look for opportunities to ___________ with a child about what they are seeing, doing, and experiencing. This will increase learning. • 12. Egocentric • D. Viewing the world in terms of their own ideas and wants shows this preoperational stage. • 13. Opinions • I. Ask a child’s views or ________ on subjects to increase their learning.

  18. Cognitive Terms • 14. Conservation • R. A cognitive skill where a child understands that even though one property of an object changes, the other property still remains the same. • 15. Inquisitive • H. Children are naturally this way. They ask a lot of questions because they are curious and want to understand the world around them. • 16. Test • M. Success of a child depends upon qualities like motivation, determination, creativity, and self-confidence, not on _________ scores. • 17. YES and NO • J. Ask questions to a preschooler that requires more than these type of answers to increase learning • 18. Make-Believe play • C. This preoperational characteristic is imitating real-life situations in fantasy play

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