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Cognitive Development Milestones: Preschool

Virtual Lab School Preschool Cognitive Development Lesson 2 Apply Cognitive Development Milestones: Preschool
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Three Years

  • Can work toys with buttons, levers, and moving parts.
  • Plays make-believe with dolls, animals, and people.
  • Does puzzles with three or four pieces.
  • Understands what “two” means.
  • Copies a circle with pencil or crayon.
  • Turns book pages one at a time.
  • Builds towers of more than six blocks.
  • Screws and unscrews jar lids or turns door handle.

Four Years

  • Names some colors and some numbers.
  • Understands the idea of counting.
  • Starts to understand time.
  • Remembers parts of a story.
  • Understands the idea of “same” and “different.”
  • Draws a person with two to four body parts.
  • Uses scissors.
  • Starts to copy some capital letters.
  • Plays board or card games.
  • Tells you what he thinks is going to happen next in a book.

Five Years

  • Counts ten or more things.
  • Can draw a person with at least six body parts.
  • Can print some letters or numbers.
  • Copies a triangle and other geometric shapes.
  • Knows about things used every day, like money and food.