18-MONTH-3-YEAR-OLD

Marigold MILESTONES

PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

  • Making relationships
  • Shows interest in the activities of others and responds differently to children and adults, e.g. may be more interested in watching children than adults or may pay more attention when children talk to them.
  • Plays along side others.
  • Uses a familiar adult as a secure base from which to explore independently in new environments, e.g. ventures away to play and interact with others, but returns for a cuddle or reassurance if becomes anxious.
  • Plays cooperatively with a familiar teachers, e.g. rolling a ball back and forth.
  • Self-confidence and self-awareness
  • Enjoys finding own nose, eyes or tummy as part of naming games.
  • Learns that own voice and actions have effects on others.
  • Uses pointing with eye gaze to make requests, and to share an interest.
  • Engages other person to help achieve a goal, e.g. to get an object out of reach.
  • Explores new toys and environments, but, checks in regularly with teacher as and
  • when needed.
  • Managing feelings and behaviour
  • Beginning to understand “yes”, “no” and some boundaries.
  • Is aware of others’ feelings, for example, looks concerned if hears crying or looks excited if hears a familiar happy voice.
  • Responds to a few appropriate boundaries, with encouragement and support.
  • Begins to learn that some things are theirs, some things are shared, and some things
  • belong to other people

COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE

  • Listening and attention
  • Has a strong exploratory impulse.
  • Concentrates intently on an object or activity of own choosing for short periods.
  • Listens to and enjoys rhythmic patterns in rhymes and stories.
  • Enjoys rhymes and demonstrates listening by trying to join in with actions or vocalisations
  • Understanding
  • Understanding of single words in context is developing, e.g. ‘cup’, ‘milk’, ‘daddy’.
  • Selects familiar objects by name and will go and find objects when asked, or identify objects from a group.
  • Understand simple sentences (e.g. ‘Throw the ball.’)
  • Speaking
  • Uses pointing with eye gaze to make requests, and to share an interest.
  • Creates personal words as they begin to develop language.

EARLY YEAR’S MATH

  • Numbers
  • Develops an awareness of number names through their enjoyment of action rhymes and songs that relate to their experience of numbers.
  • Beginning to organise and categorise objects, e.g. putting all the teddy bears together or teddies and cars in separate piles.
  • Says some counting words randomly
  • Shape, space and measure
  • Uses blocks to create their own simple structures and arrangements

UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD

  • People and communities
  • Is curious about people and shows interest in stories about themselves and their family.

EXPRESSIVE ART

  • Exploring and using media and materials
  • Explores and experiments with a range of media through sensory exploration.
  • Move their whole bodies to sounds they enjoy, such as music or a regular beat
  • Being imaginative
  • Expresses self through physical action and sound.
  • Pretends that one object represents another, especially when objects have characteristics in common

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