Beginners Teaching Guide May. 2014 | Page 13

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These next five years are when children start to understand the importance of others, expand on their vocabulary and break away from the egocentric behaviour. The imagination thrives in this stage of develop. Children are known for creating elaborate stories, designing bright and colourful art works and imaginary friends. Children will focuses on their creative side without realising they are using critical thinking at the same time. As they think of new innovative ideas are evaluating old games, activities and ideas they had before to make them more interesting and have a purpose.

Pre-Operational Stage

2 to years

They seek answers to problems and think anything is possible. To generate new ideas they will experiment, seek new possibilities and put their plans into motion. Inquiring about their information and ideas is a major step of this stage of development. They become more a where of others, their feelings and draw conclusions

that everyone

feels and thinks

as they do. Not

only people but

give objects

human qualities:

Animism everything

has a conscious.

By exploring,

evaluating and

concluding they will

pay more attention

to what is right and

wrong, thus

upstanding obedience.