Improved pronunciation and speech habits: explaining, describing and evaluating.
Listening skills improved. Listen to remember, to follow cumulative directions, to make choices, for enjoyment and for critical reaction.
Reading and writing skills have greatly improved. Able to complete activities. Able to find Bible verses, references. Answer workbook questions. Can explain Bible verses.
Are growing more slowly, with boundless energy. Develop skill in using small muscles. Are in healthiest period of life. Enjoy great endurance.
Have an understanding with the Juniors to bring their Bibles with them to class. Would they go to Math class without their math book? Teach them care and respect for their Bible and other material, being good stewards.
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Have attention span of 20-30 minutes.
This is the golden age of memorization. Excels in memory work.
Extremely rapid mental development. Are anxious to learn. Likes to be challenged. Can be obsessed with knowledge for its own sake. Devours everything on subjects of interest asking endless questions. Asks very difficult questions.
Able to do independent studies confidently.
Participates in discussions maturely. Become interested in manipulating words. Understands effective communication skills and results of them.
Are developing accurate sense of number, time and space. Now is the time to teach them timelines. Study history and geography.
Has a better understanding of cause and effect. Growing understanding of the principles behind the rules.
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Wishes to be treated like an adult. Wants more independence.
Likes to tackle problems. Needs to learn how to handle disappointment.
Must be taught to respect authority.
Zeal for fairness. Accepts just discipline. Able to analyze what he has done or failed to do and makes plans to act differently.
He can see that retaliation is bad. May feel remorse, shame and seek forgiveness.
Sensitive to his own failures and shortcomings. Sees the bad more easily than the good in himself. Able to see his own actions and motives objectively.
Self-disciplined, keen and critical.
Self-righteous when rigidly applying his code of rules to others.
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Care a great deal about the opinions of their friends. Easily embarrassed in front of others. The peer group is the child's major source of values and self-affirmation.
But the adult community is also important. Children attach a great importance to feeling a part of a church, a community, a school or a neighborhood. They want to join, to become affiliated with, the beliefs and values of the important adults in their lives.
Boys prefer to be with boys and girls prefer girls. Hates playing alone. Enjoys doing group projects.
Can learn to put others and their interests first. Warm reconciliation follows quarrels. Loyal.
Respect strength, but are intolerant and unforgiving toward weakness. Can learn not to constantly compare himself with others.
Enjoy competition if they can win often enough. Enjoy organized games with definite rules. Likes daring activities and difficult feats. Enjoy challenges. Asks what do the rules say?
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God is the great Judge of all the earth. God is the Creator of the universe. Conscious that God is far greater than him and beyond his comprehension.
Can go adventuring with the greatest hero, Jesus Christ. Learn that Christ is God.
Starting to deal with abstract concepts like fairness and justice.
Need a daily routine of prayer and study. The Bible has the only answers from God. It is not unusual for children to read whole books of the Bible to verify some fact.
They are fascinated with Bible chronology, geography, history, culture, customs, and personalities.
Can be taught that beauty and lasting things come from right thinking and right doing.
Start to understand what the church is. Learn that excitement and fun are secondary to service.
They start to explore the meanings of words like: sin, salvation, faith, eternal life, grace. They grasp analogies, symbols and metaphors more easily.
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