Posted by Chip on February 2, 2010
In my entries about children’s positive attributes, you can find details about the kinds of strengths children seem to display at different ages and stages of their development. No two children are the same, of course, and each will gravitate to different interests at the same ages because different things excite different children, energize them, [...]
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Posted by Chip on January 22, 2010
Thanks to all the wonderful people at Responsive Classroom, you’re now seeing a new-year, new-decade look for my blog, Yardsticks4-14.com. You’ll find that it’s now easier to post and find comments from other readers on any topic of interest related to child development, parenting, teaching, school, and educational issues. It’s also now easier to be [...]
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Posted by Chip on September 16, 2009
Our granddaughter, Lily, missed the kindergarten entrance cut-off date by ten days and has returned to her small and wonderful preschool where she has stepped up from the Morning Glories to the Fireflies, a fitting transition for her, a bright light of imagination, blinking on and off as she dances from one adventure to another.
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Posted by Chip on August 6, 2009
Closer to teenagers than middle childhood, the twelves, too, are still tweeners. Twelves have enormous positive energy for both independent and group endeavors, whether at school, in sports, or in after-school activities such as dance, gymnastics, martial arts, chess, cooking, or crafts. This is a great age for camp, whether day or residential. More mature [...]
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Posted by Chip on August 3, 2009
Elevens are powerful advocates, strong believers, and budding lawyers. They are passionate about their ideas and their opinions, their allegiances and their sense of justice. They are devoted to their classmates and peer groups,and the social negotiations surrounding cliques, which tend to peak at eleven and twelve, elevens are in a clear growth spurt both [...]
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Posted by Chip on July 16, 2009
Double-digit kids, these tens can take on anything and love every minute of it (well, almost). If you sense my unbridled enthusiasm for this age, you’re not off the mark. It didn’t take me long as a teacher to latch onto the understanding that if you want to teach in “middle childhood,” there is no [...]
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Posted by Chip on July 14, 2009
Nine is not always an easy age, but it is an age of growing social awareness, of intellectual stretching, wondering, and clamoring These are the “ing,” kids, the “dangling participles” easily misunderstood, the kids who are doing, encouraging, questioning, doubting, arguing…sometimes seemingly just for the sake of it, with no clear antecedents for their [...]
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Posted by Chip on July 9, 2009
When eight-year-olds wake up in the morning, new plans for adventure are percolating before their feet hit the floor. These plans usually involve a friend, or better yet, a group of friends to share adventures with in the neighborhood or at school. It can be as simple as rounding up a game of kickball [...]
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Posted by Chip on July 7, 2009
Sevens notice everything…in detail. Smallness is characteristic of their drawing, writing, and play constructions. Everything’s reduced to the microcosm, miniaturized to an intricate and controllable world they’re trying to make perfect.
Dioramas fit in shoeboxes, providing room enough for furniture, rugs, vases, with tiny flowers, people and/or animals smaller than clothespins, cut out of cardboard and adorned with colorful [...]
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Posted by Chip on June 29, 2009
No one is more industrious than six-year-olds. They take on every activity, at home and at school, with unbridled enthusiasm. Work is completed in no time at all, though quantity, not quality, is the measure that counts for sixes, along with trying new things. Being first to read a new book, spell a new word, [...]
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