Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Elementary Years
• 6 to 12 years old
• Elementary School Years
• Critical Period for the development of child’s
achievement motivation or the needs to achieve
• Develop sense of control, sense of self-esteem
and sense of maturity
• Begins to learn the basic skills in life
• Inadequacy or Inferiority
Developmental task of late childhood
• Learns physical skills necessary for group and
organized games.
• Let to get along with age-mates and members of
their family and community
• Learn fundamental skills in reading, writing and
numeracy
• Develop appropriate masculine and feminine
social roles
• Develop a conscience, sense of right or wrong
and values according to their culture
Physical development
Height and Weight
- Age 6 to 7 years old, boys and girls are in
the same height but boys are heavier in
weight
- Age 8 to 12 year old, girls are taller and
heavier than boys