SOCIAL

• More mixed gender play
  
• Negotiates successfully
  
• Smaller circle of "best" friends
  
• Greater self-reliance
  
• More time with peers without direct adult supervision
  
• Greater responsibility for own actions
  
• Makes social comparisons
  
• Reasons about social conventions
  
• Most free time spent in complex and competitive games with rules
  
• Same sex friendships based on shared activities

EMOTIONAL

• Exhibits more moral behaviors
  
• Good self-regulation
  
• Self-motivation
  
• Improved understanding of (and adherence to) social and moral rules
  
• "Golden Rule" morality
  
• Improved sense of fairness
  
• Early interest in deviating from adult norms

COGNITIVE

• Memory strategies improved
  
• Classifies objects into categories in two dimensions (i.e. color, shape)
  
• Makes hypotheses and tests them systematically
  
• Abstract and complex fantasy
  
• Ability to think abstractly
  
• Detailed 3-D drawings with perspective
  
• Improved problem solving
  
• Movement from "learning to read" to "reading to learn"

LANGUAGE

• Language
  
• Fluent reading and writing
  
• More complex chapter books
  
• Reading to learn
  
• Language development continues
  
• May show interest in learning a second language
  
• More uneven performance on domain specific tasks

FINE MOTOR

• Writes in cursive
  
• Types accurately
  
• Complex knot tying
  
• Intricate drawing
  
• More complex woodworking

GROSS MOTOR

• Complex games with rules
  
• Does tricks on bike
  
• Skates
  
• Handstands