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Bring on all the challenges!

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- Adventurous
- Intense focus on details
- Experience the world through all five sense
- Sustained attention when something is of great interest to them
- Benefit from clear and predictable schedules/routines
- Beginning to learn empathy
- Playing make believe and using their imagination
- Enjoy appeasing significant adults in their lives
- Need a great deal of physical activity
- Appreciate guided choices
- Generally accept adult rule as absolute and unbendable
- Include them in offering guided choices

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- Still developing left-to-right visual tracking
- May reverse letters and numbers
- Find it difficult to space letters, numbers, and words
- Perfecting large movements and control when running, jumping, etc.
- May prefer to work standing up
- May challenge adult authority and seem oppositional at times
- Unable to think abstractly; will use and interpret words in their most literal/basic sense
- Often read aloud
- Developing sense of time. Sand timers are a great aid
- Vivid imagination
- Repetition is favored

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Teacher Tips for Successful Learning Experiences

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Teacher Tips for Successful Learning Experiences

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- Partner Reading
- Make original books and allow them to add them to the classroom library
- Small group phonics lessons
- Labelling the classroom
- Provide support in learning pincer grasp for holding their pencil
- Use stories to construct mathematical equations and scenarios
- Hands-on exploration of size, shape, length, and volume
- Provide attainable daily challenges. I.e. -drawing a forest with no flowers, using only straight or curved lines, etc.
- Teach handwork to strengthen their control of small movements
- Role play, dramatic play, writing scripts and acting out
- Viewing and drawing 3D Shapes from different perspectives

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Lively and Exhilarating!

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- Time of dramatic physical, cognitive, and social change
- Intense receptivity to all new learning
- Capacity for logical thinking begins to immerge
- Beginning to grasp cause and effect within the natural world
- Beginning to understand other's point of view
- Enjoy collaborative work
- "in a hurry" nature
- No job is too big, no mountain to high. Love of big work and big movements
- Love to share thoughts and explain what they know
- Delight in surprises such as notes in their lunchbox or special messages from teachers
- Tire easily and may experience frequent illness or ailments
- Enjoy increased responsibility
- Can be strongly affected by events that take place at school
- Listening may be more important than offering advice or trying to solve the problem for them

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- More aware of their fingers as tools
- Noisy, sloppy, and in a hurry
- May fall backwards out of chairs vice sideways like 5-year-olds
- Have new teeth coming in and may chew on various objects
- Work in spurts and will tire easily
- Enjoy being active indoor and outdoor
- Growing visual tracking from left-to-right and beginning to naturally go on to the next line
- Writing may still be sloppy and spaces may be small as the child is more interested in the outcome than the process
- Still enjoy standing to work
- Ambitious when choosing work
- Proud and competitive
- Anxious to do well, extremely sensitive, severe criticism may be traumatic
- Occasionally more influenced by happenings at school than at home
- Boisterous and enthusiastic language
- Love jokes and guessing games
- Better reasoning minds and capacity for past and present, long ago, and far away; can begin to understand history
- Comfortable with a busy level of noise and activity

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Teacher Tips for Successful Learning Experiences

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Teacher Tips for Successful Learning Experiences

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- Continue partner reading
- Continue phonics in small groups, can gradually move to large groups and whole class lessons/stories
- Gradually moving from predictable texts to chapter books
- Using writing, drawing, clay, painting, dramas/plays, etc. to express themselves
- growing in understanding differences in genres
- Story development still strongly influenced by drawings.
- Beginning spelling / Transitional spelling
- Letters generally the same size  but more sloppily written as children are working towards an end result
- Beginning to have the capacity for mental math
- Enjoy doing computation with money
- Experimenting with reversing operations
- Interested in measuring and measurements
- Good practice to offer manipulatives or concrete materials for practicing mathematics and geometry
- Need movement breaks
- Offer a variety of ways to practice skills
- Delight in utilizing new tools such as magnifying glasses, field journals, etc.
- Interest in making and reading maps
- Enjoy handicrafts and practical life activities such as cooking
- Eager to experiment with new mediums for artwork

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Serious. Yet, sensitive.

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- Love to explore the world
- Can easily get attached
- Serious children who see and feel with thoughtful intensity
- A cognitive and emotional turn inwards
- Crave security and structure while avoiding risk and uncertainty
- May begin spending more time alone
- Enjoy focusing on a specific relationship with a 'best friend'
- Importance of precision
- Now concerned with both the process and the product
- Perfecting details
- Can have quickly changing moods
- Driven by curiosity
- Intensely interested in how things work
- Beginning understanding of time and quantity
- Science and social studies take on a new meaning
- Enjoy practical life activities that feed their desire for order and precision

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- Like confined spaces
- Improved coordination
- Still practicing precise pencil grip
- Muscles can become tense
- Can be sensitive to many physical and psychosomatic hurts
- Enjoy imaginary adventures outdoors
- Sensitive to others' feelings
- Best friend might change frequently
- Enjoy one-on-one conversations and passing/sending notes
- May rely on adults for help and reassurance
- Loyal to classroom teacher; need advance preparation for substitutes
- Conscientious and serious about schoolwork for the most part
- Have intense likes and dislikes
- Desire to keep things neat and tidy
- Strong sense of right and wrong; sensitive period for justice
- Enjoy keeping notebooks of their newly acquired vocab words
- Show great interest in meaning of words
- Secret codes, Morse code, hieroglyphics
- Like repetition
- Enjoy working slowly to finish what they've started
- Beneficial to give them a signal or heads up before transitions
- Like to collect, sort, and classify
- Still enjoy being read to
- Increasingly able to share what they are learning and how they feel about it through verbal, written, and artistic reflections
- Enjoy memorization of poems, songs, chants, and cheers; fun to have classroom songs as consistent part of the daily routine
- Able to accept feedback and revise work
- Some still not able to sit and read silently at this age

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Teacher Tips for Successful Learning Experiences

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Teacher Tips for Successful Learning Experiences

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- Make time for independent reading
- Continue phonics work; intense phonics instruction in small groups
- reading comprehension tasks
- Writing longer stories with beginning, middle, and end. May begin constructing personal chapter books
- Readiness to begin nonfiction writing
- Correct spelling is emerging
- Focus on capitalization and punctuation
- Letters often microscopic
- More concrete manipulation and computation with money
- More complex mental math
- Simple word problems
- Ready for fraction work with rulers and scales for comparison
- Experiment with symmetry
- Hands on division with concrete manipulatives
- Learning mathematics through games
- May enjoy learning to use PowerPoint
- Take pictures to include in their work
- Have a choice in how they represent their learning/knowledge
- Take things apart and discover how they work
- Expand content specific vocab
- Enjoy playing games and telling jokes to modify their seriousness
- May prefer to work with one partner than in a group