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Unit 5: Preschool Physical Development

This document discusses the physical development of preschoolers. It covers areas like physical growth, gross and fine motor development, artistic development, nutrition, and sleep. Some key points are: preschoolers experience significant growth in their trunk, arms, and legs; they acquire locomotor, non-locomotor and manipulative skills; artistic expression emerges through scribbling and basic figure drawing; proper nutrition and sleep are important for development. The document provides details on motor milestones and stages of artistic development in preschoolers.

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Unit 5: Preschool Physical Development

This document discusses the physical development of preschoolers. It covers areas like physical growth, gross and fine motor development, artistic development, nutrition, and sleep. Some key points are: preschoolers experience significant growth in their trunk, arms, and legs; they acquire locomotor, non-locomotor and manipulative skills; artistic expression emerges through scribbling and basic figure drawing; proper nutrition and sleep are important for development. The document provides details on motor milestones and stages of artistic development in preschoolers.

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Unit 5: Preschool Physical Development

 PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

 PHYSICAL GROWTH

 GROSS and FINE MOTOR DEVELOPMENT

 ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT

 NUTRITION and SLEEP

Ideas about Physical Development of Preschooler

◦ There are significant changes in physical growth.

◦ Physical development is marked by the acquisition of gross and fine motor skill.

◦ They can express themselves artistically at a very early age.

◦ Proper nutrition and the right amount of sleep are very important.

◦ Caregivers and teachers can do a lot in maximizing the growth and development.

◦ Preschoolers with special needs in inclusive classrooms can thrive well with the
appropriate adaptations made in the classrooms; materials and activities.

Significant changes in Physical Growth

◦ The trunk, arms, and legs become longer

◦ 5 or 6 months is the best time to begin learning skills that require balance

◦ “baby or milk” teeth are already in place.

◦ Preschooler year are therefore a time to instill habits of good dental hygiene.

Gross and Fine Motor Development

 Development refers to acquiring skills that involve the large muscles

 Gross motor skills are categorized into three: locomotor, non-locomotor, and
manipulative skills.

 LOCOMOTOR – are running, climbing, skipping, hopping, crawling,


galloping and dodging.
 NON-LOCOMOTOR – are those where the child stays in place, like
bending, stretching, turning, and swaying.

 MANIPULATIVE SKILLS – are those that involve projecting and


receiving objects, like throwing, striking, bouncing, catching, and
dribbling.

Physical skills from Philippine early learning and development standards (ELDS)

 GROSS MOTOR (36-48 months / 3 to 4 years)

◦ Hops 1 to 3 on preferred foot

◦ Skips (with alternating feet)

◦ Jumps and turns

◦ Stand on one leg without falling for at least 5 seconds

◦ Throws a ball overhead with control of direction

◦ Throws a ball overhead with control of speed.

◦ Kicks a ball with controls of speed.

 Fine Motor - Refers to acquiring the ability to use the smaller muscles in the arm,
hands, and fingers purposefully.

◦ Fine Motor skills (36-48 months / 3 to 4 years)

◦ Consistently turns pages of a picture or story book

◦ Purposefully copies a diagonal lines

◦ Purposefully bisects a cross

◦ Purposefully copies a square

◦ Purposefully copies a triangle

◦ Cuts with scissors following a line

 44-60 months / 3 to 5 years)

◦ Copies a simple pattern of different shapes

◦ Draw a human figure (head, eyes, mouth, trunks, arms, legs, etc.) without
prompts
◦ Draws a house without prompts using geometric forms.

◦ Colors with strokes staying within the lines

Preschoolers Artistic Development

 Viktor Lowenfeld studied that at the heart of the preschooler years is that their interests
are to draw and make other forms of artistic expression.

◦ STAGES OF DRAWING

 STAGES 1 – Scribbling Stage. This stage begins with large zigzag lines
which later become circular marking.

 STAGE 2 – Schematic Stage. Children at this stage tend to give the same
names to their drawings.

 STAGE 3 – Schematic Stage. More elaborate scenes are depicted.


Drawings may include houses, trees, sun, sky and people.

Preschoolers Nutrition and Sleep

 It is important for preschoolers to get sufficient amount of rest and sleep.

 During sleep, especially in the dreams state (Rapid Eye movement stage or REM sleep),
growth hormones are released.

 Blood supply to the muscles are likewise increased helping preschoolers regain energy.

 While dreaming, increased brain activity is also attained.

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