Key Development Milestones:

Intellectual

• Ask a lot of questions

• Have a longer attention span

• Fear imaginary things

Social & Emotional

• Start to share more

• Have some cooperative play

• Have a vocabulary of several hundred words

Creative

• Act out social encounters through play activities

• Do puzzles with 3-10 pieces

• Copy a circle and simple shapes with pencil or crayon

Physical

• Briefly balance and hop on one foot

• Pedal a tricycle

• Easily place small objects in a small opening

• Visit local areas of interest with your child

• Encourage the child to play with other children to help develop social skills

• Encourage creative play with many conversations

• Read together, discuss the story, act out the story, create original storyline

• Provide logical reasoning behind the situation and your choices

• Games to extend vocabulary

• Count to 100, try skipping odd and even numbers when counting, count backwards, and introduce addition

• Encourage the child to think and learn by answering some of his or her questions with hints  

• Encourage the child to use words to express feelings rather than acting out (drawing out also helps)

• All activities in the STEM Activity Lists, plus more creative and social activities

• Checklist games!