muscles to complete tasks in accordance to their ability.

250+ vocabulary

Using sentences with 5-6 words

Begin to use complete sentences

Answer simple questions

Begin to tell stories

Follow instructions with 2-3 steps

Understand in/out, over/under

Mostly understandable out of context/to strangers

Build tower with 6+ blocks

Play make-belive with toys, people

Turn pages in book, one page at a time

Use puzzles 3-4 pieces

Copy circle with writing utensil

Understand time: morning, afternoon, night

Count and understand counting concept

Recognize/identify familiar objects out of place

http://www.webmd.com/parenting/guide/3-to-4-year-old-milestones

https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/preschool/Pages/Developmental-Milestones-3-to-4-Year-Olds.aspx

http://preschoolers.about.com/od/development/ss/Your-3-Year-Old-Development-And-Milestones.htm#step4

http://www3.bucksiu.org/page/1184#Physical

https://explorable.com/ecological-systems-theory

Zone of Proximal Development: Children learn best when new information is scaffolded for them. They are able to go into the next stage of learning through scaffolding.

Piaget: Preoperational Stage: 

The child believes everyone thinks as he/she does.

Experiences give opportunities for growth

Children are active learners through experience.

Erikson: Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt

Beginning to make decision on his/her own, perform tasks on his/her own.

Piaget: Preoperational Stage:

Emotions that cause feelings will motivate learning. 

Social interactions and parents, teachers and peer's influence give opportunities for growth. 

Everyone thinks and feels as the child does

Create Relations with peers and adults.

Build self-control and confidence imitating parents and friends.

Play Patterns involving types of play, interactions, and roles of leadership.

Some of the fine motor skills are:

Feed themselves

Detailed drawing   

Cutting play dough  

Pour own cereal  

Towers of blocks

Some overall skills are:

Feed themselves

Go along with routine

Dress themselves

Put on/ take off shoes 

Toilet without major help

Wash own hands

Some of the gross motor skills are:

Walking 

Running

Climbing up/down stairs

Jumping

Clapping

Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model: A child's environment influences their development. The encounters in which a child goes through in their life has an effect of how they develop in their surroundings, i.e. school, home, work.

The socialization of emotions are feeling expressions refer to nurture and are affected by environment factors. Children show/express emotions by crying, laughing, and screaming.