momykids.com – When the baby enters the age range 48-60 months, the general development and stimulation that there will very rapidly. If the intake of nutrition and child nutrition is, in this age range infants will demonstrate activities that adorable all at once proud heart, such as:
• Standing 1 foot in 6 seconds
• Jump up and down with 1 foot
• Dancing
• Draw a cross
• Draw a circle
• Draw a person with 3 parts of the body
• buttoning clothes or doll clothes
• Mention your full name unassisted
• Glad to call new words
• Glad to ask about something
• Answering questions with the correct words
• speech easily understood
• Can compare / distinguish anything from the size and shape
• Calling the numbers, counting fingers
• Mention the names of the day
• Dress own unassisted
• Brushing the teeth without assistance
• React calmly and not fussy when it left the mother
Gross motor development or Motion
Stimulation of the need to proceed: push the kids play ball, run, jump with 1 foot, long jump, a narrow road in the base board / game balance of the body, berayunayun and climbing. (Read: Development & Stimulation of Children Aged 36-48 months).
Sack race
Take the sack / cloth glove that is wide enough to cover the lower body and legs of children. Show the child and his friends how to wear a sack and jumping around, who is the fastest / first until goal line.
Play “engklek”
Figure engklek game boxes on the floor. Teach children and friends how to play engklek.
Jump rope
By the time children play with their peers, point 2 children to hold the raffia rope (1 meter long), set the distance from the ground, do not be too high. Show the child how to jump rope and play “leap frog”.
Fine motor development or Motion
Continue stimulation: encourage children to play puzzles, drawing, calculating, selecting and classifying, cutting and pasting pictures. (Read: Development & Stimulation of Children Aged 36-48 months).
The concept of “half or one”
When the child was able to arrange the puzzle, take the child to make a circle and a rectangle of paper / cardboard, cut into two parts. Show your child how to unite the two sections into one section.
Draw
When children are drawing, have the children complete the picture, for example: draw clothes on drawing people, drawing trees, flowers, sun, fence in the picture house, and so forth.
Matching and counting
When children can count and recognize numbers, create a set of cards inscribed with figures of 1-10. Put the cards on the table sequentially. Ask the children to count small objects in the home such as: beans, pebbles, seeds and other sapodilla, a number of the numbers listed on the card. Then place these objects near the card number matches.
Cut
When children are able to use blunt scissors, teach how to cut paper already folded, making a shape like the tassel, people, animals, cars from others.
Comparing the large / small, more / less, heavy / light.
Encourage children to play arrange 3 pieces of plates of different sizes or 3 cups of water filled with the contents do not match. Ask the children to prepare the dishes / glasses are of a size small / large number of little / lot or from mild to severe. When the children to the third set it, add this number to 4 or more.
Scientific experiment
Take 3 cups of water content. In the first glass add 1 teaspoon sugar and help the child when stirring sugar. In the second glass and cork insert on the third glass marbles enter. Talk about the result when children do the “experiment” is.
Gardening
Encourage children to plant the seeds of peanut / green beans in cans / glass aqua which has filled the former soil. Help the children watered the plants every day. Encourage the child to pay attention to its growth from day to day. Talk about how plants, animals and the children grow up / grow large.
Aspects of Speech and Language Development
Continue stimulation (read: Development & Stimulation of Children Aged 36-48 months):
• Create a child would ask and berceritera about what is seen & heard
• Encourage children to often see books. Make it sees you reading the book
• Help your child in choosing a TV show, limit TV viewing time maximum 2 hours a day. Accompanied children watch TV and explain the incidence of good and bad. Remember that the events and news on TV can be a bad influence on children
Learn to remember
Enter the number of objects / toys into a bag. Ask the children to pay attention to you when you take 3-4 kinds of small objects / from the bag. Put on the table and have the children call the names of objects / toys one by one.
Then, ask the child to close his eyes, and take one last thing. Ask your child what items are missing. When he has mastered this game, add the number of objects placed on the table.
Recognize letters and symbols
Write the name of the objects in the room on a small piece of paper. Then paste the paper on every thing, misainya: writing table affixed on the table, writing books, flowers, pillows and so forth. Ask the children to mention the writing on the paper. Teach children to recognize the signs along the road.
Know the numbers
Help children recognize numbers and start counting. Encourage children to play cards, use number cards 2-10.
Reading magazines
Collect magazines (used) or when the child may subscribe to the magazine. Read and encourage child to see the magazine. When berlanggganan do regularly each issue of the magazine.
Know the season
Help children recognize the rainy and dry seasons. Discuss what happens on the second season, the effect on plants, animals and natural surroundings.
Family activity book
Encourage the child to make a family activity book by collecting photos / pictures of family members, objects of various places visited by children, and so forth.
Visiting library
As often as possible to take the child to visit the park reading / children’s library. Borrow a book that attracted the attention of children and read to children.
Completing sentences
Create a sentence statement ‘about what you and the kids do bersarna’ and ask children to solve them. For example, after taking children to the zoo, “Yesterday we went to” or after taking children to eat noodles meatballs; “brother’s favorite food is”
Story-telling “when I was a kid”
Children love hearing stories about the childhood of her parents and happy talk about “childhood”. Tell your child’s childhood and then ask children to tell the keciinya.
Assisting the work in the kitchen
Tell your child that you are picked as “assistants” you. Ask the children to help cut the vegetables. prepare and mernbersihkan dining table, and others. Make the kids want to explain what he was doing. Tell me how much fun it can help others and do something well.
Aspect Development of Socialization and Independence
Continue stimulation (read: Development & Stimulation of Children Aged 36-48 months):
• Provide routine tasks in children in activities at home, invite your child help in the kitchen and dining with family
• Make child play with peers
• Encourage children to talk about what is perceived child
• Together, children make plans the streets as often as possible
Establishing independence
Give children the opportunity to visit a close neighbor, friend or relative without your company. Next ask the child tells about his visit.
Create “albums” family
Help your child make a family album plastered with photographs of family members. Write the name of each person under his picture.
Create a “dummy”
Demonstrate how to create a “puppet” of the paper. Picture the face with markers. To be able to stand up straight, put a stick as a “frame / body” doll. Or create a “puppet” of former socks. Figure-eyes, nose and mouth. Move your fingers as if the doll to speak. Make the kids want to play with friends than playing alone.
Drawing people.
Show your child how to draw people on a sheet of paper. Explain when you draw the eyes, nose, lips and clothes.
Following the rules of the game / guide.
Encourage children to play while learning to follow rules / directions of the game. At the beginning of the game, give commands to the child, such as “walk 3 big step forward or backward 5 steps to walk on tiptoe.” Every time you run the command it, ask the child saying: “May I start?”
Once the child can play this game, alternately children who give orders and those of you who say: “May I start?”
Creative play with his friends.
Invite to house children age 2-3. Teach the kids the game by singing, making puppets out of paper / old socks and then play it. Ask the children want to imitate animal behavior like that seen at the zoo.
Playing “selling and shopping at the store.”
Collect objects that exist in the home such as shoes, sandals, books, toys, magazines, and so on to play “shopping at the store.” Write the price of each item on a small piece of paper. Create a “paper money” from a piece of paper and “coins” from the button / bottle cap. Then ask the child acts as a shop owner, you and other children pretended to buy things with “paper money” and “coins”. Next in turn the children into shoppers and shopkeepers.
By: dr. Salma Oktaria







