Three-Year-Olds
Social-Emotional:
Has short attention span; easily distracted, takes turns and shares with encouragement, joins and plays with other children, helps with simple chores, shows sympathy, calls attention to own performance, uses toys appropriately, prefers more challenging tasks, identifies with parents.
Physical:
Gross:
Walks up and down stairs alternating feet, walks several steps on tiptoe, walks line on floor, balances on one foot for several seconds, throws ball overhead, kicks ball, climbs easy playground equipment.
Fine:
Demonstrates hand preference, stabilizes paper with one hand to write, draws vertical line, circle, and cross, cuts continuously along a line, screws on lids, rolls/shapes play dough forms.
Cognitive:
Orders graduated containers, understands simple opposites, sorts by one attribute (color or size), matches pictures of like objects, understands objects function, matches simple shapes, understands simple time concepts (day/night).
Communication/Language/Speech
Knows first/last name and age, gender, recites nursery rhymes; sings songs, uses three-to five word sentences, tells simple stories, recalls elements from a story, follows two to three step sequenced direction, asks questions, answers simple questions, takes turns in conversation, has vocb of almost 1,000 words, uses pronouns, has 85% speech intelligibility.
-The Ultimate Teachers's Book of Lists MailBox
Has short attention span; easily distracted, takes turns and shares with encouragement, joins and plays with other children, helps with simple chores, shows sympathy, calls attention to own performance, uses toys appropriately, prefers more challenging tasks, identifies with parents.
Physical:
Gross:
Walks up and down stairs alternating feet, walks several steps on tiptoe, walks line on floor, balances on one foot for several seconds, throws ball overhead, kicks ball, climbs easy playground equipment.
Fine:
Demonstrates hand preference, stabilizes paper with one hand to write, draws vertical line, circle, and cross, cuts continuously along a line, screws on lids, rolls/shapes play dough forms.
Cognitive:
Orders graduated containers, understands simple opposites, sorts by one attribute (color or size), matches pictures of like objects, understands objects function, matches simple shapes, understands simple time concepts (day/night).
Communication/Language/Speech
Knows first/last name and age, gender, recites nursery rhymes; sings songs, uses three-to five word sentences, tells simple stories, recalls elements from a story, follows two to three step sequenced direction, asks questions, answers simple questions, takes turns in conversation, has vocb of almost 1,000 words, uses pronouns, has 85% speech intelligibility.
-The Ultimate Teachers's Book of Lists MailBox
Ideas to use with your child/children
Children will have a hard time lacing, but purchase or make lacing cards, so fingers can start getting strong!
Get large posters, and cut them into pieces. Children can easily put them back together, to begin learning how to do a puzzle!