Speech and language skills

  • Follows instructions given to group
  • Asks how questions
  • Uses past tense and future tense appropriately
  • Uses conjunctions
  • Has a receptive vocabulary of approximately 13,000 words
  • Sequentially names days of the week
  • Counts to 30 by rote
  • Continues to drastically increase vocabulary
  • Uses sentence length of 4 to 6 words
  • Reverses sounds occasional
  • exchanges information and asks questions
  • Uses sentences with details
  • Accurately relays a story
  • Sings entire songs and recites nursery rhymes
  • Communicates easily with adults and other children
  • Uses appropriate grammar in most cases

Motor skills

  • Walks backward heel-to-toe
  • Does somersaults
  • Cuts on a line with scissors
  • Cuts food with a knife
  • Ties own shoes
  • Builds complex structures with blocks
  • Gracefully roller skates, skips, jumps rope, and rides a bicycle
  • Competently uses miniature tools
  • Buttons clothes, washes face, and puts toy away
  • Catches a ball with hands
  • Makes precise marks with crayon, confining marks to a small area