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5 years

Does the child:

  • Follow group directions – “all the boys get a toy”?
  • Understand directions involving “if…then” – “If you’re wearing runners, then line up for gym”?
  • Describe past, present and future events in detail?
  • Seek to please his/her friends?”
  • Show increasing independence in frienships – may visit a neighbour by him/herself?
  • Use almost all of the sounds of their langague with few or no errors?
  • Know all the letters of the alphabet?
  • Identify the sounds at the beginning of some words – “Pop starts with the ‘puh’ sound”?
 

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