Child+Development+-+Gr.+3

=** Child Development - Grade Three **media type="youtube" key="zg1UOplVhS0" height="144" width="254" align="right"=

Web resources:

 * Stages of Development
 * Grade-by-Grade Learning: 3rd Grade
 * 3rd Grade Academics: What to Expect
 * 3rd Grade Social Changes: What to Expect

Physically:

 * Girls are just starting to get taller than the boys on average
 * boys and girls have similar traits

Cognitively:

 * Social learners
 * Becoming more self critical
 * Starting to feel academic pressures - more desire to succeed at school
 * Enjoys working in groups
 * Greater understanding of literature
 * They are doers, will take on a lot of things, sometimes more than they can handle

Socially:

 * Focused more on social life than on school
 * Great at making friends but have a hard time keeping the relationships
 * Better understanding of others needs
 * More interested in friends than in family
 * Want to be the one talking, will try to monopolize conversations
 * Love to be leaders in groups