When you look at children and their development you notice that they all grow in various ways throughout the stages. There are five key stages of development that happens in every child’s life, hitting the same milestones although this may vary in age as every child is different.
Physical Development
From the moment a baby is born the psychical development starts. It all starts with the ability to lift their heads they then learn to watch the movements of their own hands and start to focus on objects around them, the same happens with hearing as they slowly start to recognize sounds.
As the months move on they start to realise they can move …show more content…
Musical activity’s also become an interest as well as colouring and drawing. At this point they have also learnt that people have many different preferences.
Most children around the age of three to four years old have started a preschool or playgroup and there motor skills have come on leaps and bounds. They can confidently control a pencil and will start to try to write their names, the use of scissors at craft time will become available and will enjoy activities like threading beads or sorting colours into the right coloured boxes.
With five to eight years, numeracy and literacy become a key part of their development. Around the age of eight they can all read and write independently with a much broader view of the world around them.
Question asking from the minute a child can talk is a major factor in the intellectual development. A child learns so much from simply just asking questions, although at some stages this can become tedious as it’s the same question on repeat. They are soaking in some much information
Language Development
In the first two years of life, a child’s language develops form crying, babbling, and gurgling to being able to say about fifty words. Some will be used and clearer than