Gross Motor Skills

• Lifts head and chest when on the stomach
• Rolls from back to side to back
• Rolls completely over from back or siomach
• Sits with support
• Holds head erect
• Can raise himself on forearm and hold his head up
• Rolls from back to tummy

Fine Motor Skills

• Reaches for objects
• Holds objects for short periods before dropping them
• Touches and pats bottle
• Usually responds to objects or faces as they move
• Plays with fingers, hands, and toes
• Holds and manipulates objects, sucks on everything

Gross Motor Skills

• Progresses from sitting steady when supported to sitting without support
• Crawls on hands and knees
• Pulls to standing position
• Walks with help
• Stands alone
• Learns to crawl, stand up and walk
• Sits without support (by 8 months)
• Begins to cruise and eventually walk
• Develops eye-hand coordination

Fine Motor Skills

• Reaches for small objects
• Places objects in a container
• Picks up medium and large objects
• Changes objects from one hand to another
• Plays with two toys, one in each hand
• Points with fingers
• Transfer toys from hand to hand
• Sees almost everything with good vision
• Develops eye-hand coordination

Gross Motor Skills

• Stands alone
• Walks without support, starting and stopping with control
• Walks backward with a pull toy
• Runs stiffly
• Squats down to pick up an object and stands up
• Climbs up stairs, creeps down backward one at a time
• Can throw a ball
• Walks well
• Can walk while holding an object

Fine Motor Skills

• Turns several pages of a book at one time
• Scribbles on paper with crayon
• Release ball with slight thrust
• Picks up small objects between thumb and forefinger
• Can open a small box
• Holds a spoon with a fist
• Feeds self with fingers
• Holds and drinks from a cup
• Picks up small objects with pointer finger and thumb
• Can builds a tower of cubes
• Turns pages on a book

Gross Motor Skills

• Runs stiffly
• Jumps off ground with both feet
• Bends at the waist to pick up an object
• Walks up and down steps, one step at a trime
• Throws objects overhead
• Kicks a large ball
• Climbs onto low objects
• Kicks backward and for a=ward
• Stands on a balance beam
• Walks upstairs with help
• Runs well
• Enjoys riding small wheeled riding toys

Fine Motor Skills

• Manages spoon
• Makes vertical marks and circles with crayon
• Turns doorknobs
• Pulls down zippers
• Shows hand preference, but switched hands often
• Assists in dressing and undressing self
• Can draws scribbles
• Drinks from a straw

Gross Motor Skills

• Is constantly in motion
• Jumps off low objects
• Pushes self on wheeled toys
• Runs but has difficulty stopping
• Seat self in small chairs
• Alternates feet going upstairs, but not downstairs
• Kicks ball
• Throws the ball overhand, with no aim
• Catches objects with arms extended and elbows stiff
• Walks backward
• Can balance on one foot (3 years)
• Walks up and down stairs independently

Fine Motor Skills

• Turns individual pages of a book
• Screws lids on and off
• Builds crude towers of six or more blocks
• Scribbles circles and horizontal and vertical lines
• Takes simple objects apart and puts back together
• Uses spoon, spill a lot
• Strings large beads
• Holds scissors correctly
• Zips and snaps

Gross Motor Skills

• Hops, skips, jumps, and runs
• Walks on tiptoes
• Hops on one foot
• Marches with rhythm
• Alternates steps when climbing stairs, comes down one step at a time
• Throws ball by thrusting with arm and shoulder, catches with arms
• held out straight
• Swings on a swing
• Walks a low balance beam
• Rides tricycle

Fine Motor Skills

• Builds block towers of about 9-10 blocks
• Holds pencils and crayons with control
• Draws straight lines and copied circles
• Draws three-part person
• Cuts with scissors
• Pulls up large zippers
• Unbuttons clothes
• Uses spoon and fork

Gross Motor Skills

• Whirls around turns somersaults and hangs on bars
• Hops several times in a row
• Climbs large play equipment
• Jumps forward using a forward arm action
• Jumps up and down
• Throws the ball overhead with less body movement
• Bounces a ball and catches the ball with elbows in
• front of his body
• Can hop on one foot, skip, and jump
• Can catch a ball with both hands
• Can catch a beanbag

Fine Motor Skills

• Builds straight block towers
• Draws a house and person
• Prints name
• Forms crude shapes with clay
• Cuts on lines with scissors
• Brushes teeth, combs hair, and washes hands
• Dresses self except for tying shoes
• Develops hand preference
• Dress and undress himself
• Can copy a simple design

Gross Motor Skills

• Whirls around, turns, somersaults, and hangs on bars
• Hops several times in a row
• Climbs large play equipment
• Jumps forward using a forward arm action
• Jumps up and down
• Throws balls overhead with less body movement
• Bounces a ball and catches the ball with elbows in front of body

Fine Motor Skills

• Builds straight block towers
• Draws a house and person
• Prints name
• Forms crude shapes with clay
• Cut on lines with scissors
• Brushes teeth, combs hair and washes hands
• Dresses self except for tying shoes
• Develop hand preference

• Whirls around turns somersaults and hangs on bars
• Hops several times in a row
• Climbs large play equipment
• Jumps forward using a forward arm action
• Jumps up and down
• Throws the ball overhead with less body movement
• Bounces a ball and catches the ball with elbows in
• front of his body
• Can hop on one foot, skip, and jump
• Can catch a ball with both hands
• Can catch a beanbag

• Develops more adult-like proportions
• Develops harder, larger bones
• Is-sick less often
• Starts developing secondary sex characteristics
• May begin growth spurt
• Extremely active
• Develops interest in more specific motor skills
• Engages in organized sports
• Has well developed small muscles
• Refines writing
• Develops special interest in activities
• Tries new foods
• Eats neatly

• Puberty, rapid growth period
• Secondary sexual characteristics appear, grow body hair, increase
• perspiration and oil production in hair and skin
• Girls – breast and hip development, the onset of menstruation
• Boys – growth in testicles and penis, wet dreams, deepening of voice,
• tremendous physical growth, gain height and weight
• Body image –
  Preoccupation with physical changes and critical appearance
  Anxieties about secondary sexual characteristics changes
  Peers used as a standard for normal appearance

• Secondary sexual characteristics advanced
• 95% of adult height reached
• Puberty is completed
• Physical growth slows for girls, continuous for boys
• Body image –
  Less concern about physical changes but increased interested in personal attractiveness
  Excessive physical activity alternating with lethargy