PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF PRIMARY SCHOOLERS

(MIDDLE CHILDHOOD)

Primary schoolers where children from the ages of 3 going to primary

ages. The sequence at which a child develops is orderly and predictable, but
different children develop at different rates. Child development involves
language, social and gross motor skills and motor skills.

What is the definition of physical development in a child?

Physical development refers to the advancements and refinements of motor

skills, or, in other words, children's abilities to use and control their bodies. ...
Gross-motor skills and fine-motor skills are developed during infancy and
toddlerhood.

What are the ages of middle childhood?

- Middle childhood (usually defined as ages 6 to 12) is a time when children

develop foundational skills for building healthy social relationship and learn
roles that will prepare them for adolescence and adulthood

What are some examples of physical development?

- As school-age children grow physically, the become faster, stronger, and

better coordinated. Consequently, during middle childhood, children become
more adept at gross motor activities. By ages 4 to 5, children can go up and
down the stairs alone in the fashion.

During primary school, balance and agility improve, allowing children to

participate in more complex physical activities. They can learn to skate, ride
bikes, sail boats, dance, swim and climb trees. Primary school kids also
develop the ability to hop on one foot, a skill not seen in preschool children
Another Physical Development of Primary Schoolers (MIDDLE
CHILDHOOD)

 Growth spurt usually begins sooner weigh than for height

 Begins sooner for girls than for boys
 Growth gives a potential participation in all activities

GROWTH AND BODY CHANGES:

 They grow more slowly

 Weight (5 or 6 pounds)
- child’s weight slightly increases during this stage but slows down at the
time of puberty stages.

 Height (2 inches per year)

- girls and boy’s height grow about 2 to 3 inches and gain about 7 pounds
per year until puberty.

 Both gender have similar patterns

 Body proportion
 (possible) growth rate can vary based on genetic histories, ethnic
background and serious illness.
 Gross Motor skills
- Involve in the use of large bodily movements. Children love to jump, run,
leap, throw, catch, climb, and balance. Children play baseball, ride bikes,
roller skate,take karate lessons, take ballet lessons, and participate in
gymnatics. As school-age children grow physically, they become faster,
stronger, and better coordinated. Consequently, during middle childhood more
adept at gross motor activities.

 Fine Motor skills

- Involve the use of small bodily movements. Children enjoy using their
hands in detailed way, too. From early in preschool, children learn and
practice fine motor skills. Primary schoolers cut, paste, mold, shape, draw,
paint, create, and write.

 Sensory and Perpetual Development

- At this point in the child’s life, he/she has developed a theory of mind,
which is their own mental processes. When perceptions are acquired, the
child realizes other look at situation differently from themselves.

 Language Development
- While a child in first grade may have 8,000-14,000 words. Children’s
writing abilities at this age improve as well. Children familiars not only one
language but may more than one language where they able to cmmunicate
their peer group.
 Brain Development
- Brain and Nervous system developments continue during middle
childhood. More complex behavioral and cogniitve abilities become posisible
as the central nervous system matures. Brain development during middle
childhood characterized by growth of specific structures where brain is able to
override a little bit functions like planning, reasoning, social judgement, and
ethical decision making.

PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT in MIDDLE CHILDHOOD

 (Ages 6-12) Industry-versus-Inferiority stage

 Child complexities to the modern world
 Socializing and interaction to others for making a new place for
themselves.
 Success is accomplished by proficiency a task and a growing sense of
competence
 Difficulties in a certain things(me lead to feeling in adeqaute).

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN MIDDLE CHILDHOOD

Children’s memory capacity and the ability to

use their memory also increases and
improves during middle childhhod. A more
visible expresion of children’s cognitive
development during middle childhood can be
found in their ability to use and appreciate
increasingly sophisticated forms of language.

Piaget describe multiple operations that

children begin to master in middle childhhod, including conservation,
decentration, seriation, reversibility, heirarchical classification, and
spatial reasoning. These are technical terms, all of which will be describe
below in greater detail.

STAGE

The concrete operational stage is the third stage in Piaget’s theory of

cognitive development. This period spans the time of middle childhood, it
begins aroumd age 7 and continues until approximately age 11, and is
characterized by the development of logical thought.

IMPLICATIONS TO CHILD CARE DEVELOPMENT

Children who attended early care before age 3 are less likely to show a
development problem just before enrering primary school. This advantage is
sizeable for language skills and school readiness and it is also visible for
motor skills and socio emotional maturity.
What happens to parent/child relationships during middle childhood?

Attentive, responsive relationships between parents and their children in

middle childhood are ssociated with the development of sef-esteem,
competence, and social resonsibilty in the child. In cointrast, parents’
indifferent, associated with antisocial behavior in children

What are implications for teaching?

Primary school teachers are typically responsible for teaching children

from first through fifth grades. They play an important role in developing a
child’s intellect and work habits, as primary school is the first time most
children are in a strictly educational environment.

What are the implication of play for learning?

Learning through play is a term used in education and psychology to

describe how a child can learn to make sense of the world aroun them.
Through play children can develop social and cognitive skills, mature
emotinally, and gain the self-confidence required to engage in new
experiences and environments.

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Prepared by : GROUP 1

COPIOR, ANDREI B.
De GUZMAN, MA. NICOLE
DEMEGILLO, PATRICIA ANGELIE
SAYO, MEIRTYL