• Same gender play
  
• Initiates conversations
  
• Some sharing
  
• More independence in self-help tasks
  
• More loyal friendships
  
• Improved attention
  
• More sex-role stereotyping
  
• Asks adults for help in social interactions
  
• Wants to please adults
  
• More cooperation with rules

EMOTIONAL

• Identifies multiple emotions
  
• Less defiance
  
• Fewer tantrums
  
• Exhibits more shame
  
• More empathetic behavior
  
• Improved self-regulation
  
• Realizes that gender is constant
  
• More aware of distinction between fantasy and reality
  
• Fewer fears
  
• Identifies with male adults

COGNITIVE

• Peak of interest in fantasy and role play
  
• Cooperates
  
• Memory improves
  
• Matches and sorts more accurately
  
• Makes predictions
  
• More realistic drawings of people and objects
  
• Stronger imagination
  
• Improved ability to take another’s point of view
  
• Early problem solving
  
• Improving logical thought
  
• Can count up to ten objects

LANGUAGE

• Early interest in spelling words
  
• Handles books correctly
  
• Enjoys rhyming games
  
• Reads some words
  
• Enjoys longer stories
  
• Sings more complex songs
  
• Recalls stories
  
• Able to construct sentences of five to eight words or more
  
• Knows full name and address
  
• Understands 3000+ words
  
• Personal vocabulary of 2000+ words

FINE MOTOR

• Drawings of people more realistic
  
• Early writing with some letters
  
• Uses a mouse
  
• Buttons well
  
• Strings small beads
  
• Detailed painting
  
• Strong scissors work
  
• Better pencil manipulation

GROSS MOTOR

• Dances with coordination
  
• Skips
  
• More smooth coordination
  
• Rides bike
  
• Swims
  
• Stands on one foot for 10 to 15 seconds
  
• Dresses and undresses, and bathes alone
  
• Catches ball