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Developmental characteristics:
- High energy, need lots of activity
- Practicing large muscle and fine motor skills
- Developing physical ability
- Growing attention span
- Respond to simple rules and limits
- Eager to learn
- Creative
- Beginning to reason
- Feel their ideas count
- Easily hurt and insulted
- Identify with the family
- Eager to please
- Enjoy small groups
- Emphasize fairness
Supporting actions and activities:
- Wide variety of activities
- Choices
- Routine
- Frequent individual interaction with adults
- Games with simple rules
- Quiet areas as well as noisy areas
- Outside experiences
- Imaginative play opportunities
- Some clear responsibilities (i.e. clean-up)
- Projects that apply to school day lessons about family and community
- Opportunities to read aloud, silently and to talk about books and ideas
- Matching, ordering and sorting activities
- Small experiments with everyday products
- Nature walks and talks
- Opportunities to work with a variety of materials for projects
- Physical activities that do not emphasize competition (i.e. jump rope, marbles, jacks and kites)
- Music, dance and drama opportunities
- Opportunities to try experiences from diverse culture
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