Toddler turns preschooler

My two year old is now four and a half years old thus I can no longer call her a toddler, can I? I should rename this blog Preschooler Management!

Just some updates on my 4.5 year olds' development:

Academic and Cognitive development

1. She talks fluently with a good command of English, and knows how to get her wishes communicated and ideas across well.
2. She thinks logically, which is good and bad. Good in that she can take care of herself and hold her own, bad in that she can hold a valid argument with us ADULTS.
3. She can read fluently and independently and write correctly, and is now improving her spelling skills. She can effectively write simple stories which has one or two spelling errors along the way, and she loves writing.....
4. She can also read Bahasa Malaysia fluently and is now picking up on her vocabulary.
5. She cannot read Mandarin short of a few basic words but can understand a whole lot, although she doesn't get the opportunity to practise her Mandarin, nor does she want to probably.
6. She can perform double digit addition and subtraction and knows how to count in 2s, 5s and 10s. She is able to count up to 200 and is able to recognise numbers up to 100. However, on rare occasions, she still gets her 6 and 9 mixed up, or writes her numbers backwards.
7. She is very creative with ideas, drawings and stories and loves experimenting with different materials and new things.
8. She has a talent for art and craft, creating lively stories in her art.
   
9. She loves reading and is very happy in school, having not missed a single day of school unless we pull her out for a holiday.
10. She has a passion for learning and is always asking questions.

Emotional development

1. She is generally a very happy and contented child, always noisy, always bubbly, always bouncing, always mobile.......
2. She has not learnt how to share and only shares with people she likes, in a discriminatory manner.
3. She sometimes lacks compassion for her friends whom she does not like.
4. She is extremely manipulative when it comes to getting what she wants, to the point of expressing dramatic theatre performances of oscar heights.
5. She is very affectionate with those whom she likes and generous too.

Physical development

1. She is of average height and weight (18kg and 105cm)
   
2. Her last visit to the pediatrician confirmed that she was growing very well with strong bones and a healthy body.
3. She can hop well on one leg and generally perform many physical stunts.
4. She is still trying hard to cross the monkey bars at the playground due to lack of arm muscles, though she has very strong legs.
5. She can run like lightning, which usually gets her into a lot of trouble.
6. She has good balance thus the next step is to remove her training wheels on her bicycle.
7. She will be learning to roller skate soon.
8. She dances well and is musically coordinated, phew!
9. She loves jumping on trampolines and beds because she believes it will make her taller.
10. She is currently working on perfecting her pencil holding skills.