5-6 YEAR-OLD

Edelweiss MILESTONES

PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

  • Making relationships
  • Can Play with a group of kids
  • Takes turn talking
  • Self-confidence and self-awareness
  • Can begin a familiar task by him- or herself and stick with it
  • Can process abstract information and understand own strengths and weaknesses
  • Managing feelings and behaviour
  • Is starting to control his or her behavior and understand when it might disrupt others. Examples: will raise a hand to ask questions or stay in his or her seat
  • Can stay quiet and listen when needed
  • Can control voice levels and does not push other children

COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE

  • Listening and attention
  • Can follow routines and do daily tasks
  • Can follow rules and take turns in a game
  • Can remember and describe an activity
  • Understanding
  • Understands directions that have more than one step. Knows concepts such as first, next and last
  • Understands humor
  • Has flexible thinking. For example, understands that “orange” is a fruit and a color. Knows when something is imaginary versus real
  • Speaking
  • Knows the diƙerence between active ideas and passive ideas
  • Can tell his or her exact age
  • Can speak clearly
  • Can roleplay with dolls

english

  • Word reading and comprehension
  • Applies phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words.
  • Blends sounds in words.
  • Discussing word meanings, linking new meanings to those already known.
  • Participates in discussion about what is read to them, taking turns and listening to what others say
  • Explains clearly their understanding of what is read to them
  • Spelling
  • Names the letters of the alphabet in order.
  • Write from memory simple words dictated by the teacher.
  • Handwriting
  • Sits correctly at a table, holding a pencil comfortably and correctly
  • Begins to form lower-case letters in the correct direction, starting and finishing in the right place
  • Form capital letters
  • Form digits 0-9
  • Grammar and Punctuation
  • Develop their understanding of the concepts set out by:
    • leaving spaces between words
    • beginning to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark
    • using a capital letter for names of people, places, the days of the week, and the personal pronoun ‘I’

MATH

  • Number and place value
  • Counts, reads and writes numbers to 100 in numerals; count in multiples of twos, fives and tens.
  • Given a number, identify one more and one less.
  • Reads and writes numbers from 1 to 20 in numerals and words.
  • Addition and subtraction
  • Reads, writes and interprets mathematical statements involving addition (+), subtraction (–) and equals (=) signs.
  • Adds and subtracts one-digit and two-digit numbers to 20, including zero.
  • Solves one-step problems that involve addition and subtraction, using concrete objects and pictorial representations.
  • Geometry (properties of shapes)
  • Recognises and names common 2D shapes.

Above are some, but not all of our milestones for our 3-4 years old.