What Should My Child Be Doing?:
30 - 36 Months |
How Your Child Will Grow:
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Things You Can Do:
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Physical: Walks upstairs (one foot on a step); begins to balance on one foot; likes to ride on a tricycle |
- Take your child to parks and playgrounds
- Play balancing games |
Hand Skills: Puts shoes on (no laces); begins to copy simple shapes; cuts with scissors; brushes teeth with some help |
- Encourage him/her to use materials such as finger paints, blocks, and simple puzzles.
- Children love to play with water; provide buckets, shovels, cups, etc. |
Language: Says first and last name; knows whether he/she is a boy/girl; repeats some nursery rhymes; speech is clear |
- Let your child tell stories and explain pictures
- Teach your child to say his/her name
- Sing nursery rhymes |
- Cognition / Understanding: Knows difference between “big” and “little”; follows two or three directions at one time; begins to count
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- Help him/her to understand numbers and concepts; e.g. big/little, under/over, on/off, and open/close |
Self Help: Naps start to disappear (may not every day) |
- Encourage napping when he/she seems tired |
| Social: Plays more often with other children (shares, tells stories, likes to play dress-up) |
- Make sure your child has the chance to play with other children
- Encourage his/her imagination
- Provide old clothes for dress up games
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