The Preschooler

The Preschooler

• Children aged three to five years are all different in what they can do and what interests them but they all develop along a common path.
• This age is a time of growing independence and learning - to use their bodies, talk, understand and make things. They are busy, active people.
• At this age children's minds are like sponges. By the time they go to school they will have formed their own personality and ideas about life and learning.
• Most children of this age:
  • learn through their senses, like to smell, touch, taste, see and feel things
  • can hold a conversation with you
  • form ideas about how the world works
  • are curious about everything
  • need to move
  • want the company of other children
  • are interested in others
  • like to make things
  • play games with friends
  • want to know how to look after themselves
  • like to join in and do what you do
  • revert back to toddler like behaviour (thumb sucking, crying, hitting, baby talk) when they are shy or upset, especially in new situations.
• Many children of this age like to go to child care, play group, kindergym or kindergarten/preschool.

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