Families need to be aware of ALL areas of their child's development - physical, emotional, language, and thinking.
Children have a great ability to learn and grow. Adults provide the best support for their child when they encourage their individual abilities and readiness to learn. We have created six guides that provide a brief introduction to the areas of growth and experience that research tells us are involved in helping a child progress and succeed. Each guide contains examples of the experiences and typical range of skills your child should be able to do at each level of development. Along with those examples are practical activities you can do with your child at home and additional resources for information and help.
As children play with others, they are developing language and social skills, using their imagination, working on problem solving and developing physically. As you play with your child, remember readiness for school is developing a child’s willing attitude and positive view of learning new things, not just gaining knowledge.
Families provide a child with their very first opportunities to develop a relationship, communicate, and interact. Readiness for school is developing a child's willing attitude and positive view of learning new things, not just gaining knowledge.
The physical growth, nutrition, self-care, and safety practices your child learns now impacts their future health and well-being. Children benefit from a variety of activities that require them to use both large and small motor skills.
Reading is much more than sounding out words. It is the result of many small skills that build upon one another. See how your child's learning progresses through communication, reading, and writing.
Preschool children have an inborn sense of mathematical thinking. At this age, they begin to understand numbers and quantity. See how that learning progresses through number sense, numerical thinking and spacial understanding, measurement, and reasoning.
Young children play an active role in the development of their own ability to think, make decisions, and solve problems. Adults support this development by providing interesting materials and experiences, and by giving encouragement.