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.
Motor Milestones/4-5 Years
- Jumps on one foot; Jumps forward many times without falling; Walks backwards; Walks up and down stair independently, alternating feet; Turns somersaults;
- Puts on his own clothing, but may still need help with fasteners like buttons/zippers;
- Starts to spread butter or cut soft foods with a small table knife;
- Starts to use one hand consistently for fine motor tasks;
- Build things with smaller linking blocks;
- Cuts paper along a straight line with scissors; Likes cutting/pasting; Starts to cut along a curved line, like a circle;
- Draws, names, and describes recognizable pictures;
- Starts to color inside the lines of a picture;
- Draws a person with two to six recognizable parts naming or matching parts to own body;
- Copy shapes like squares and crosses; Begin to draw diagonal lines;
- Prints some capital letters;
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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