Child+Development+-+Gr.+5

=** Child Development - Grade Five **=

Web resources:

 * Stages of Development
 * Grade-by-Grade Learning
 * 5th Grade Academics: What to Expect
 * 5th Grade Social Changes: What to Expect

Physically:

 * Start to hit puberty
 * Improved motor skills so can play more complex games
 * Hormones can create mood swings

Cognitively:

 * Understand the basics of language, math, social studies
 * Still developing communication skills and becoming more mature
 * Able to do more challenging and long term projects
 * Develop tastes in reading styles
 * Ability to present information from projects
 * Able to learn more complex math and apply to the real world
 * Able to observe and experiment to gather data and draw conclusions

Socially:

 * Develop good relations with teacher
 * Tend to be more obedient
 * Becoming more truthful and dependable
 * Becoming more independent
 * Friends and what friends think are more important than ever
 * Going to middle school next year
 * Coming into their own identity and is important to be reinforced by teacher
 * Learn how to resolve conflicts and deal with bullying
 * Need structure to guide learning but also independence to learn on their own
 * Social lives are largely on the internet
 * Presented with more peer pressure and opportunities
 * Need to reward the child for good behaviour and increase freedom, and might need freedom reduced if stuggling
 * Needs more privacy, diary a good tool