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This is an exciting time, as your child continues to develop independence and enters formal education.
It is a time to maintain good communication with your child, his caregivers and his school. |
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- From 5 through 9 years of age, your child will be refining his motor skills. From 9 until 11, you may begin to see the start of puberty. Between 11 and 13, you may see rapid and uneven growth, which occurs at different rates for individual children, with arms and legs growing rapidly.
- Coordination of the left and right side of the body continues to develop between 5 and 13, with preferences beginning between 7 and 11. By 13, your child will be refining this coordination.
- Understanding of body parts and function continues throughout these years, with more sophisticated understanding and knowledge of basic nutrition and growth starting between 9 and 11. By 13, your child will have a basic understanding of the body system.
- From 5 through 9 years of age, your child will continue to gain a sense of physical safety with guidance. From 9 through 13, she will understand safety but may take physical risks.
- Artistic and aesthetic skills will continue to be refined during these years.
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- From 5 until 7, your child will be curious about the printed word – engaging in role play with reading, relying heavily on memory at first with gradual reading skills developing. From 7 through 11, he begins to read for a variety of purposes and may be reading by topic or author as he gets older. By 13, he may be selecting from a wide variety of reading materials and understand that readers may interpret the same material in different ways.
- Between 5 and 7, she combines drawing and writing to convey ideas. Is interested in the names of letters and how to represent speech sounds. Writes mainly for personal interest. Between 7 and 13, she will move from enjoying writing stories and sharing them with others to enjoying receiving feedback from others about her writing, to enjoying playing with words and writing from various points of view.
- Children from 5 to 7 count first by starting back at 1 each time something is added. Between 7 and 9, he begins to enjoy counting, puzzles, and games such as guessing numbers between 10 and 99. Between 9 and 11, he begins to understand numbers as a system built on tens. Between 11 and 13, he begins to explore other ways to build number systems, e.g. numbers represented by 0’s and 1’s.
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- From 5 through 9, develops the ability to work in groups and get along with others. From 9 through 11, he will work in groups if this activity is supported. By 13, he will continue to develop the ability to collaborate in group activities and may show that relationships with friends are increasingly important.
- From 5 through 7, he will begin noticing how people are similar and different from one another. From 7 through 9, he will develop an appreciation of his own cultural heritage through concrete experiences. This continues as he matures, as he continues to develop an understanding of his own and others' cultural heritages and an appreciation for the rich multicultural heritage of his own country and cherishing his own family culture in relation to others.
- He is beginning to develop sympathy for the feelings of others between 5 and 9, offering to help between 9 and 11 and developing a deep empathy for others feelings in understandable situations by the time he’s 13.
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