Age Social and Physical Communica Intellectual Health & Adult role

emotional tion Safety

2 - 3 years # They explore # Walks up # Rapidly # Respond to # Never place # Ensure
everything, and down expanding simple child in front adeuate sleep
show a stairs with vocabulary, directions seat with a
stronger sense both feet on including passenger air # Promote
of self and one step. plurals # Choose bag physical
expand their activity
picture books,
range of self- # Climbs on # Holds simple # Test water
help skills. furniture conversations name pictured temperature # Teach
objects, and with wrist hygiene, hand
# Indicate # Builds a # Enjoys identify washing after
toileting needs tower of six repetition of several objects # Supervise toileting
bricks favourite within one near water; and before
# Help to dress stories picture empty tub, meals
and undress # Uses a spoon buckets,
themselves for self- # Counts to # Group pools # Praise good
feeding ten behaviour and
objects by
# Be assertive # Childproof accomplishme
# Puts shoes # Begin to use category home nts
about their
on modifiers (dangling
preferences (adverbs and # Stack rings cords, sockets, # Talk, sing,
and say no to # Draws adjectives) on peg in cleaners, read to child
adult requests circles and order of size medicines
dots # Point to # Use
# Begin self- common # Identify # Keep poison discipline
evaluation and # Starts to use objects when themselves in centre number (“time out”,
develop preferred hand the mirror, handy gentle
they are
notions of saying "baby" restraint) to
# Turn pages named # Don’t leave teach, not
themselves as or their own
one by one heavy objects, punish
good, bad, # Name name hot liquids on
attractive, etc. # Jump in objects based tablecloths # Limit rules,
place with on their # Relate what be consistent
# Show both feet description they are doing # Turn pot
awareness of together to others handles to # Discourage
their own # Respond to back of stove hitting, biting,
feelings and # Stand on one "what?" and # Observe and aggressive
those of foot, with aid "where?" imitate more # Never leave behaviour
complex adult child alone in
others, and questions
# Walk on actions home or car # Respond to
talk about verbal
tiptoe # Enjoy
feelings # Check requests.
listening to window
# Kick ball
# Experience stories and guards, safety # Ask and
forward
rapid mood asking for locks, stair answer open-
shifts and favorite stories gates ended
show questions.
# Recount # Supervise
increased
events that near pets,
fearfulness mowers,
happened that
(e.g. fear of day driveways,
the darks) streets

# Use objects # Use safety

symbolically in seat in back
play seat of car

# Participate
in simple
 Age Social and Physical Communica Intellectual Health & Adult role
emotional tion Safety
3 - 4 years # Become # Can draw a # Imitates # Understand # Safety at # Comfortable,
more face adult speech concepts like home – smoke safe, secure
independent. grouping and alarms,windo environment
# Builds # Can be w locks etc.
matching (for
# Most can: bridges with understood by # Good quality
Follow a series blocks when strangers example, # Playground care routines
of simple shown recognizing safety
directions # Forms short, and matching # Close and
# Undoes grammatically colors) #Use bike loving
# Complete buttons correct Helmet relationships
simple tasks sentences # Organize
with food # Threads materials on # Stranger # Inclusion
large beads # Asks many their own, e.g. safety and equal
without
questions of access
assistance, by stacking
# Stands and the type: # Keep sauce
such as walks on tiptoe what? why? blocks in pan handles #
spreading soft and how? order of size turned inward Communicatio
butter with a # Can kick a n
dull knife and ball # Knows parts # Identify # Keep
pouring from confidently of body, parts of a cleaning # Opportunity
animals whole, like a products to play
a small pitcher
# Jumps from slice of pie locked away
low steps # Still makes # Allow
# Wash hands
errors of # Draw, name, # Good assertiveness
unassisted and # Pedals a tenses hygiene within limits
blow nose and briefly
tricycle practise
when explain
# Keep
reminded # Use a slide somewhat # Road safety discipline brief
without help recognizable
# Children pictures # Radiators, # Encourage
become more # Throw and meaningful to heaters,ovens- self-
interested in catch a ball them covered/child expression,
supervised choices, safe
other children.
# Seek exploration,
# Age- socializing and
# They are information ,
appropriate physical
now more why/ how toys,games activity
likely to share questions
toys, taking # Hug, talk,
turns with # know their read, play
assistance full name and together
age
# Initiate or
join in play # Attend to an
with other activity for a
children and longer time (5-
make up 15 minutes)
games
# Learn by
# Begin observing/
dramatic play, listening to
acting out adults'
scenes (such explanations
as traveling)
# Show
awareness of
past / present