8 years old

SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL

• consider peer's acception very important;

• are still learning how to cooperate and share;

•  play together - boys and girls;

• like games and competition;

• are discovering where they fit in society, in the community, in their family;

• notice what is right or wrong in terms of behavior;

• need warning about their security;

• need limits pre-established by adults;

• need to talk about all types of relevant topics 

• need adults to use appropriate language for their age;

• need support related to self-esteem and encouragement to have fun and express feelings;

• pay more attention to appearance and choose clothes they want to wear;

• peer pressure may become an issue;

• are more likely to follow rules they help create;

• angry outbursts are common;

• are impatient;

• are interested in money;

• gain a sense of security being involved in group activities;

• have rapidly sense of emotions.

​LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION

• keep developing more complex language abilities;

• improve pronunciation and can follow a greater number of commands in sequence;

• expand vocabulary quickly;

• expand vocabulary much more quickly when they read more;

• show abilities to play with words and demonstrate it using verbal humor;

• are developing the sense of irony;

• use correct grammar most of the time;

• become very interested in reading books;

• are still working on spelling and grammar in their written work.;

•  Oral speech is more developed than written skills.

COGNITIVE

• acquire more sophisticated reading abilities;

• use reading towards the understanding of academic knowledge than towards the practice of skills;

• show a quickly growth in their cognitive skill;

• count forward and backward;

• know how to define dates;

• know the days of the week, and the months of the year in the correct sequence;

• like to read to parents and still like parents to read to them;

• understand fractions;

• know how to count by 2s and 5s;

• have a back-and-white perspective most of the time. So, thigs are right or wrong, ugly or beautiful, etc.

​MOVEMENT

• wear and get dresses by themselves;

• show a more refined motor coordination;

• complain about tummy ache, leg and arm pains, etc, because they are getting more aware of their own bodies;

• have all the motor coordination to take care of their own personal hygiene;

• lose about four baby teeth every year.