Milestones and Activities
- At each age level, our cognitive development is linked with our motor development and our emotional development as we explore the world.
- Through language we exchange our ideas and feelings with the people in our lives.
- Click on the milestone group you would like to see. You will find age levels and milestones. For each age milestone there will be corresponding lesson, activity and material links.
Cognitive Milestones
Motor Milestones
Emotional Milestones
Language Milestones
Social Milestones
- Source: Milestones have been compiled from a number of web sites. These sources may be viewed by clicking here.
Lessons and Activities/Materials
- Sequencing Personal Events
(Lessons)
Day Drawing/Fill-in
Day Recording/Review
Wh- Grid Fill-in
Wh- Grid Text
Wh- Grid Color
Cognitive Milestones/4-5 Years
- Listens while others are speaking, hearing and understanding most of what is said; Continues an activity for 11-12 minutes;
- Identifies and names many colors and shapes; Tells color of unseen object; Identifies and names letters and numbers; Counts objects up to 5; Repeats four numbers; Recognizes name in print; Knows own street and town;
- Matches and sorts objects; Categorizes, naming items without visual clues; Greater understanding of concepts of function or use of objects, time, and part/whole relationships;
- Understands spatial concepts, such as beside, behind, in front and next to; Understands different, nearest, through, thin, whole; Understands comparative and superlative adjectives, such as big, bigger, biggest;
- Follows three-step unrelated directions; Follows simple directions involving remote objects;
- Understands "in the morning" , "next", "noontime"; Understands time concepts yesterday, today, tomorrow, days of the week, last week, next week; Understands before and after; Understands first, then, next; Begins to relate clock time to daily schedule;
- Understands words for order, like first, next, and last; Identifies positional concepts first, middle, last; Understands order and process in doing things; Understands sequencing of events;
- Listens to a short story and answers simple questions about it; Retells a story; Makes story predictions from a book cover; Tells long stories about own personal experiences;
- Ask and answers “what”, “who”, "when", "how", and "why" questions; Answers “how many” questions (up to four); Understands complex questions;
- Identifies a problem and possible solutions, choosing the appropriate one(s); Shows an understanding of right and wrong;
- Plays dress-up; Dramatic play moves closer to reality, with attention to detail, time, and space; Speaks of imaginary or future things, such as “What if ...” or “I hope ...”;
Source:
- http://firstyears.org/miles/chart.htm
- http://www.pbs.org/wholechild/abc/cognitive.html
- http://www.pbs.org/wholechild/abc/social.html
- http://www.pbs.org/wholechild/abc/physical.html
- http://www.pbs.org/wholechild/abc/communication.html
- https://www.verywell.com/cognitive-developmental-milestones-2795109
- https://www.verywell.com/communication-milestones-2795110
- https://www.verywell.com/social-and-emotional-milestones-2795121
- https://www.verywell.com/physical-developmental-milestones-2795119
- http://www.howkidsdevelop.com/3-6months.html
- http://www.howkidsdevelop.com/6-9months.html
- http://www.howkidsdevelop.com/9-12months.html
- http://www.howkidsdevelop.com/1-2years.html
- http://www.ldonline.org/article/6042
- http://www.ldonline.org/article/6045
- http://www.ldonline.org/article/6050
- http://www.ldonline.org/article/6313
- http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/01/
- http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/23/
- http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/34/
- http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/45/
- http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/conditions/pediatrics/
age-appropriate_speech_and_language_milestones_90,p02170/
- http://www.aspminds.com/perspective.html
- https://www.linguisystems.com/pdf/Milestonesguide.pdf
- http://www.kamloopschildrenstherapy.org/fine-motor-skills-infant-milestons
- http://www.kamloopschildrenstherapy.org/communication-infant-milestones
- http://www.kamloopschildrenstherapy.org/social-emotional-infant-milestones
- http://www.kamloopschildrenstherapy.org/understanding-thinking-infant-milestones
- http://www.kamloopschildrenstherapy.org/fine-motor-skills-toddler-milestones
- http://www.kamloopschildrenstherapy.org/communication-toddler-milestones
- http://www.kamloopschildrenstherapy.org/social-emotional-toddler-milestones
- http://www.kamloopschildrenstherapy.org/understanding-thinking-toddler-milestones
- http://www.kamloopschildrenstherapy.org/fine-motor-skills-preschool-milestones
- http://www.kamloopschildrenstherapy.org/communication-preschool-milestones
- http://www.kamloopschildrenstherapy.org/social-emotional-preschool-milestones
- http://www.kamloopschildrenstherapy.org/understanding-thinking-skills-preschool-milestones
- http://www.kamloopschildrenstherapy.org/fine-motor-skills-school-milestones
- http://www.kamloopschildrenstherapy.org/communication-school-aged-milestones
- http://www.kamloopschildrenstherapy.org/social-emotional-school-aged-milestones
- http://www.kamloopschildrenstherapy.org/understanding-thinking-skills-school-aged-milestones
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