Neurological development from 2 to 5 years

2 ½ years

Motor skills Jump with your feet together in the same place and walk on your toes. Handling Cap a pen and you can draw straight lines. Social He begins to ask, "What is it?" You are curious how the objects around you work and what they are for. Language and knowledge Uses more than 100 words and is capable of making 2-3 word sentences with verb. Lists various parts of his body and uses in yo-tú-mi. Is able to number several pictures in a story.

3 years

Motor skills Climb stairs supporting one foot on each step; also hold on one foot for a few seconds. She is able to pedal a tricycle and run without problems, she can walk on tiptoe and on her heels.

He is capable of handling a tricycle.

You can begin to coordinate your body so that you can dance quite well to the music.

Handling It has a round graphic, one begins to put on and take off simple clothes. He can draw something recognizable. Make a simple puzzle and imitate a vertical stroke with a pencil.

Three years is the key age to see if a child is right-handed or left-handed

Social It fulfills three simultaneous orders. His comprehension capacity is very high. He no longer gets angry so intensely and tantrums lessen. It helps if you miss it. He plays with other children, he likes to share his time with his peers.

It is capable, around 30 months, of being completely continent and does not wear diapers during the day. At three years of age, toilet training is also nocturnal, although there is a small percentage of children who do not achieve it until they are 5 years old (nocturnal enuresis). Fecal continence is acquired first and then urinary continence.

Language and knowledge He likes to play a lot and uses symbolic play. Gender and number difference. Join sentences and make sentences of three words. Know her age in years and her full name, can hold conversations and refer to the past.

4 years

Motor skills Go down stairs alternating feet, jump on one foot maintaining balance. Handling It is capable of undoing a button. You can copy a circle, round, cross and line. Social Play in collaboration with other children. He goes alone to the bathroom. Imitate the role of parents. Language and knowledge Follow and understand a short story. Count three objects, mark the longest line between two, create complex sentences and connect the sentences with conjunctions.

He repeatedly asks why? How?

He is able to perfectly differentiate top-down, front-back and understands abstract concepts such as: cold, heat, hunger or fatigue.

In this stage the world is understood through magical thinking (they believe that objects have life and that coinciding events in time have a cause-effect relationship). Thought is dominated by the information received by the senses and, many times, not logical, so that they may think that the largest coin is the most valuable because it is the largest.

5 years

Motor skills Able to walk forward touching one foot to the other, jumps over small obstacles, dresses and undresses without assistance except shoelaces.

Social Likes to help with everyday chores. Likes to participate in competitive games Language and knowledge

The graphics is square. Draw a person in three parts: head, trunk and limbs. Count to 10, know the concept of quantity, not just the number of runs. Ask the meaning of some words.