During the first 5 years of a child's development a child's brain develops more and faster than at any other time in his life.
Your child's early experiences his relationships and the things he sees, hears, touches, smells and tastes stimulate his brain, creating millions of connections.
5 years old is a critical time as the child's brain is in the most development stage and is able to take in the most information and learn new things more easily.
The reason the first 5 years is so important is because your child's brain develops more and faster than at any other time in his life.
Your child's early experiences his or her relationships and the things he sees, hears, touches, smells and tastes stimulate his brain, creating millions of connections.
By the age of 5 around 85 percent of the child's brain is developed.
In the first five years of life, experiences and relationships stimulate children's development, creating millions of connections in their brains.
In fact children's brains develop connections faster in the first five years than at any other time in their lives.
A 5 year old can write but they may have some trouble with spelling certain words.
The handwriting of a 5 year old can also be bad but it will improve as the child gets older and practices writing.
At 5 years old a 5 year old child should know academically.
Speak clearly using more complex sentences.
Count 10 or more objects.
Correctly name at least four colors and three shapes.
Recognize some letters and possibly write their name.
Enjoys being read to and pretends to read aloud from a book.
Can produce rhymes.
Knows most letters and can match some letters to the sounds they make.
Can match some written and spoken words.
Can write some letters and numbers.
The average 5 year old should also know how to.
Copy simple shapes with a pencil.
Copy letters and write their own name.
Say their full name, address, age and birthday.
Draw more realistic pictures – for example, a person with a head with eyes, mouth and nose, and a body with arms and legs.
Read simple picture books.
Most children learn to write his or her name by age 4 to 5 years old.
Although some kids may be able to write their name by 4 it's usually not until 5 or 6 years old before the child can more easily write and spell their name without help.
Between the ages of 5 to 6 years old most children can count up to 100.
However it can depend on the child and their ability to learn but most child by age 5 and 6 can learn to count to 100.
The age at which a child can count to 20 is 5 years old.
At the age of 5 years old a child can often count up to twenty and beyond, and they'll start to apply this knowledge every week at school.
A child should be able to count to 10 by the age of 4 years.
However it can depend on the child as some children are slower or faster learners but your child should normally be able to count to 10 by 4 years of age.
A child's brain is not fully developed until they reach adulthood and reach at least 25 years of age.
The age of 25 years old is when the child's brain is fully developed.
Children's brains develop and continue to develop but get more developed after age 8 to 10 years of age.
The brain continues to mature even after it is done growing.
Though the brain may be done growing in size, it does not finish developing and maturing until the mid- to late 20s.
Intelligence is inherited.
Some people inherit their intelligence from others in their family such as from cousins, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, fathers and mothers.
Researchers have previously shown that a person's IQ is highly influenced by genetic factors, and have even identified certain genes that play a role.
They've also shown that performance in school has genetic factors.
Intelligence is highly heritable and predicts important educational, occupational and health outcomes better than any other trait.
Recent genome-wide association studies have successfully identified inherited genome sequence differences that account for 20% of the 50% heritability of intelligence.
General intelligence definitely runs in the family.
Twin studies (on both identical twins and fraternal twins) have found a heritability of IQ between 57% and 73%, and in some cases, even higher.
Interestingly, genetic studies have revealed that a child's IQ score is less affected by intelligence genes than an adult's.
And genetics can explain the wide range of possible IQs too because so many different genes are involved in developing and running a brain.
It is possible, for example, to inherit all the higher IQ genes from each parent and leave the lower IQ ones behind.
Now the child will be brighter than the parent.
Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving.
In order to capture the full range of abilities and talents that people possess, Gardner theorizes that people do not have just an intellectual capacity, but have many kinds of intelligence, including musical, interpersonal, spatial-visual, and linguistic intelligences.
Human intelligence is a mental quality that consists of the abilities to learn from experience, adapt to new situations, understand and handle abstract concepts, and use knowledge to manipulate one's environment.
Intelligent behavior is the capability of using one's knowledge about the world to make decisions in novel situations: people act intelligently if the use what they know to get what they want.
The different types of intelligence include.
Linguistic. Enjoy writing, reading, telling stories or doing crossword puzzles.
Logical-Mathematical. Interested in patterns, categories and relationships.
Bodily-kinesthetic. Process knowledge through bodily sensations.
Spatial.
Musical.
Interpersonal.
Intrapersonal.