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YEAR OLDS. What are we learning today?. Standard ET-ECE-8: Explore the growth, development, and care of the preschool child. EQ How do 4, 5, and 6 year old children develop physically?. H eredity and Environment play important roles in a child’s growth and development .
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What are we learning today? • Standard • ET-ECE-8: Explore the growth, development, and care of the preschool child. • EQ • How do 4, 5, and 6 year old children develop physically?
Heredity and Environment play important roles in a child’s growth and development • Heredity or “nature” • Strong influence on physical development • Includes the physical make up the child inherits from parents • Environment or “nurture” • Everything that surrounds and influences a child
Physical Growth: • Slightly slower than toddlers • 2 ½ -3 inches taller each year • Gain 4-5 pounds each year • Boys tend to be slightly taller and heavier than girls
Motor Skills • Basic gross and fine motor skills improve significantly! • The timetable for the development of these skills varies • Remember: some children may master one skill and struggle with another!
Fine Motor vs Gross Motor • VERY energetic • Love to: run, jump, climb, and tumble/flip • At age 4: throw and catch large and small balls • At age 5: improved speed and coordination • At age 6: start balancing and learning how to ride a bike • Improve gross motor skills with physical exercise! • Can use their hands and fingers skillfully • At age 4: learn to lace shoes • At age 5: can print letters • At age 6: draw detailed picture/write their name • Improve fine motor skills by cutting with scissors
Hand Preference: • Around age 2: some children start using one hand over the other and most switch hands • Around age 5: most children consistently use either their right or left hand • Very few people are ambidextrous • Able to use both hands with equal skill
DAILY GRADE BREAK • Let’s see who is ambidextrous! • Choose a scene from “Daddy Daycare” to draw a picture of • You will draw this picture AND write a sentence about it THREE times! • Once with your RIGHT hand, once with your LEFT hand, and once with NO HANDS! • Then, write a paragraph describing which hand was easiest to draw/write with and which hand was hardest to draw/write with • Do you believe your dominate hand is your dominate hand because of Nature or Nurture? Why?