5 Year Old Development

Age 5-6

In this section “5 Year Old Development” we have collected the whole material, published on our site, which will help you and your child to study and get ready for the next advanced level of knowledge.

In this section we will help you to learn and define the level of your child’s development, i.e. what your child must know and be able to do at the age from 5 to 6 years.

The material for your lessons you can download free of charge and use at home, kindergarten and at school.

Mathematics

1. The child must know how to solve the simplest puzzles

2. The child must know how to distract and add numbers

3. The child must know how to define the direction: forward, back, to the right, to the left, up, down

4. The child must be able to understand and answer the questions correctly: how many? Which? What number?

5. The child must know  the composition of numbers from 0 to 10

6. The child must be able to differentiate and name the objects of circular, square, triangular and rectangular shapes

7. The child must know such geometric figures as square, rectangle, circle, triangle, trapeze and rhombus 

Logical thinking

1. The child must be able to perform tasks in which regularity must be revealed and continue the row of the given items

2. The child must be able to find the redundant object  out of the 4-5 given positions

3. The child must be able to make a story using the offered pictures and finish it

4. The child must know how to divide the offered objects into 2 groups and find the common feature for every group

Language skills

1. The child must tell his name, surname, age, the city he lives in, his parents’ name, their age and occupation

2. The child must know the home address and telephone number

3. The child’s speech must be maximum similar to the adult’s one (by quality)

4. The child must be able to hold a conversation and monologue

5. The child must know a lot of poems learnt by heart, complicated and large volume plays. He must recite them with the expression

Skills of everyday usage

1. The child must know the names of surrounding objects: furniture, dishes, clothes, household and electric appliances, plants, animals, natural phenomena, names of the favorite cartoons, fairy-tales, books and names of the favorite heroes

2. The child must know how to make a call

3. The child must know how to behave at the table

4. The child must clean his teeth himself and rinse his mouth after the meal

5. The child must be able to fasten the buttons and tie shoelaces 

6. The child must know how to be tidy, how to keep his hair, nails and clothes in an appropriate way

7. The child must know the purpose of the traffic lights, all its colors  and how and where it is allowed to cross the road