{"id":1005,"date":"2013-08-16T18:07:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T01:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/?page_id=1005"},"modified":"2013-08-16T18:07:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T01:07:04","slug":"upper-elementary-children","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/links-for-parents\/upper-elementary-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Elementary Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children in upper elementary, between 6 &#8211; 12 years of age, are in their second stage of development and another step closer to independence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cognitively, they&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 15px\">are using their imagination to figure things out.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>are practicing their powers of concentration.<\/li>\n<li>are beginning to think abstractly.<\/li>\n<li>are developing their ability to reason.<\/li>\n<li>want to understand things for themselves.<\/li>\n<li>are looking for knowledge to help them understand the world outside of home and school.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Socially, they&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>are focused on their peers.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 15px\">feel that they are ready to enter society.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>want to explore the world outside of home and school.<\/li>\n<li>are beginning to develop their inner strength, self-discipline and character.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Morally, they&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 15px\">are starting to test their moral compass in the social world.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>want to understand right and wrong.<\/li>\n<li>are developing their own sense of justice.<\/li>\n<li>are developing their conscience.<\/li>\n<li>want to understand the motivation behind behaviour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Emotionally, they&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 15px\">testing the social and moral boundaries to see where they fit in.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 15px\">are learning to adapt to their new social environment.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For a break down of characteristics by grade, please read this blog post:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/montessoritraining.blogspot.ca\/2010\/01\/montessori-planes-of-development-upper.html\" target=\"_blank\">Characteristics of Children in their Second Stage of Development<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">How can we support a child in the second stage of development?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>From you<\/em><\/strong>, they need help developing their moral and social values.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>From us,<\/strong><\/em> they need activities that allow them to &#8220;live&#8221; their research.<\/p>\n<p>They need field trips and day trips to explore\u00a0life outside the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>They also need group work and the opportunity to talk about their ideas.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>From their environment<\/em><\/strong>, they need a place to explore their ideas.<\/p>\n<p>They need to practice and test their notions of morality and justice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Sources<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Duffy, Michael and D&#8217;Neil Duffy. <i>Cosmic Education in the Montessori Elementary Classroom.\u00a0<\/i>(Chapters 1-3)<\/p>\n<p>Grazzini, Camillo.\u00a0 <i>The Four Planes of Development.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i>Grazzini, Camillo.<i>\u00a0Introduction to &#8220;Keys to the World: The Second Plane of Education&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Haines, Annette., Baker, Kay., and Kahn, David. <i>The Optimal Development Outcome.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children in upper elementary, between 6 &#8211; 12 years of age, are in their second stage of development and another step closer to independence. Cognitively, they&#8230;\u00a0 are using their imagination to figure things out. are practicing their powers of concentration. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/links-for-parents\/upper-elementary-children\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"parent":261,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1005","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1005\/revisions\/1034"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}