Milestones for 5-Year-Olds

Monica Gonzalez
EED 255
Observation with 5 years old

Physical growth and development

The mother says the child has grown a little in height.
Thinking and reasoning (cognitive development)
Know their address and phone number. No.
Recognize most letters of the alphabet.
M. can recognizes only 11 letters from the alphabets

Can count 10 or more objects.

No, she was able to count to four in English and count to five in Spanish

Know the names of at least 4 colors.

Yes, yellow, pink, red, orange

Understand the basic concepts of time.

M. understood the schedule of the classroom by pointing to the pictures for each time

Know what household objects are used for, such as money, food, or appliances.
M. was playing in the kitchen area and recognized fruits, vegetables, spoon, fork, plate, and
cup when she was pretending to make food.

Emotional and social development

Want to please and be like their friends, though they may sometimes be mean to others. N/A
Agreed to rules most of the time.
M. followed the rules of the class with no problem; she understood when she needs to pay
attention to learn and to clean up

Showed independence.
Yes, she was able to go bathroom by herself without any assistance, and washed hands all
the time.

Are more able to distinguish fantasy from reality but enjoy playing make-believe and dress-up.
Yes, she loves to pretend that she is a mom when she is in the kitchen area. She also played
and wrapped the toy babies with blankets in the class.

Have distinct ways of playing according to gender. Most 5-year-old boys play in rough or
physically active ways. Girls of the same age are more likely to engage in social play.
Yes, she danced and sang.

Language development
Carry on a meaningful conversation with another person.
No, I observed the girl still works in her language development to make complete sentences.

Understand relationships between objects, such as "the boy who is jumping rope." N/A
Use the future tense, such as "Let's go to the zoo tomorrow!"
Yes, the girl says I will see you tomorrow.

Often call people (or objects) by their relationship to others, such as "Bobby's mom" instead of
"Mrs. Smith." N/A
Talk about or tell stories. They have little or no trouble being understood by others. N/A

Sensory and motor development

Somersault and possibly skip. N/A
Swing and climb. N/A
Hop on one foot.
I observed her attempt to hop on one foot for hopscotch which she stills tries to do

Use the toilet by themselve. They may still wet the bed, though.
Yes, she goes to the toilet by herself.
By age 5, most children can use their hands and fingers (fine motor skills) to:

Copy triangles and other geometric shapes.

Yes, I saw that she drew rectangles, circles, and squares.

Draw a person with a head, a body, arms, and legs.

Yes, I saw how she improved when we were doing our monthly this is me picture. Now,
she is able to draw in her picture a face, body, legs and hands.

Dress and undress on their own, although they may still need help tying shoelaces.
Yes, but she still needs help tying her shoelaces.

Write some small and capital letters from the alphabet.

Yes, she can write her own name using letters that she can trace because she does not know
how to put the letters in order. She likes to write letters in others childrens name. For
example, she identifies the student names by only writing the first letter like T shown
below.

Eat with a fork, spoon, and possibly a flatware knife.

She is able to use the spoon on her own. I saw that she needed assistance with using a fork.
Knives are not allowed to be used by children in the classroom.