IS YOUR CHILD ON TRAC WITH HIS COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
Cognitive development focuses on how children learn and process information. it is the development of the thinking and organizing systems of the mind. It involves language mental ability, thinking, reasoning , problem solving and memory development. While every children develops at his own pace here some typical cognitive milestones during 2 years to 12 years of age.
2 nd year : " Miss /Mr Independent "
- Responds to simple directions.
- Identifies rooms in own house.
- Identifies clothing items for different occasions.
- Recognized self in mirror , saying baby, or own name.
- Can tal briefly about what he/she is doing imitates adult actions.
3 rd year : "Goodbye babyhood, hello childhood"
- Recognizes and matches six colors.
- Builds tower of more than 10 blocs.
- Draws somewhat recognizable picture that is meaningful to child if not to adult: names and briefly explains picture.
- Knows own age.
- Knows own name.
4 th year: "Growing self - reliance "
- Plays with words : creates own rhyming words says or maes up words having similar sounds.
- Knows own street and town.
- Time concepts are expanding: can tal about yesterday or last week, about today, and about what will happen tomorrow.
5 th year : " Leaving the Nest "
- Retells story from picture boo with reasonable accuracy.
- Sorts objects by single characteristics.
- Uses classroom tools meaningfully and purposefully.
- Begins to relate clock time to daily schedule.
6 th year : " A BIG FIRST GRADER "
- Begins to thin in a more coordinated way, and can hold more than one point of view at a time.
- Begins to develop concepts of quantity .... distance, area, time,weight, length etc.
- Can arrange objects in order of size.
- Tells month and day of birthday. Counts up a hundred by repetition.
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