By 60 Months Your Child May

- Enjoy playing with other children
- Be proud of what they can do
- Tell you how they are feeling
- Help solve problems
- Be able to follow a story without pictures
- Tell stories when they play
- Climb, kick and throw
- Feed themselves with knife and fork and try different foods
- Dress and undress alone, but may need help with fastenings
- Go to the toilet alone
- Read and write their name and simple sentences
- Sing favourite songs
- Enjoy messy play
- Count with understanding to 20
- Remember and talk about special times
- Use longer sentences to tell stones, talk about their world and say how they are feeling
- Enjoy experimenting
- Talk about the size and shape of objects