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Milestones by Fifth Birthday:
- Stands on one foot longer than 10 seconds
- Hops, turns somersault
- Swings, climbs
- May be able to skip
- Draws triangles and geometric patterns
- Draws person with body
- Prints some letters
- Uses fork, spoon
- Can care for own toilet needs most of the time
- Remembers parts of a story
- Uses 5+ word sentences
- Uses future tense
- Tells longer stories
- Can say name and address
- Can count 10 or more objects
- Correctly names four or more colors
- Understands idea of time better
- Wants to please people
- Wants to spend time with friends
- Likely to agree to rules
- Likes singing, dancing, acting
Activities/Toys:
- Play outside
- Kids this age like to experiment and discover within limits.
- Use blunt-tipped scissors, crayons, and put together simple jigsaw puzzles
- Develop their growing interest in academic things, such as science and mathematics, and activities that involve exploring and investigating.
- Group items that are similar- all the red things, all the small things.
- Stretch their imaginations and curiosity.
- Show them how reading and writing are useful (for example, by listening to stories and poems, dictating stories to adults, and by talking with other children and adults).
- Incorporate teaching into daily activities. (For example, use numbers and counting while in the kitchen: “Four, five, six cookies go into the over for 15 minutes.”)
Ask your doctor if your child:
- Is overly aggressive or overly timid or passive
- Can’t separate from parents
- Cannot concentrate on any activity for more than five minutes
- Doesn’t respond or seems aloof with others
- Rarely uses imaginative or fantasy play
- Can’t tell fantasy from reality
- Seems excessively sad or unhappy
- Doesn’t express a variety of emotions
- Has trouble eating, sleeping, or using toilet
- Doesn’t understand two part commands or prepositions (“put the plate on the table”, “get your doll under the couch.”
- Can’t tell first and last name
- Doesn’t use plurals or past tense
- Has difficulty holding crayon
- Cannot get dressed, wash hands, brush teeth by himself
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