Should your three-year-old count to ten and know colors and shapes?

Answer 1

Yes, if not more. But he'll also get them mixed up on occasion. * understands 1000 or more words and will learn an average of 1500 to 2000 more words * increases vocabularies for nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, location words, and question words; also increases knowledge of connecting words (and, because, but, if). * understands numbers, emotional labels (happy, sad, scared, mad, etc), categories (toys, clothes, animals, foods, etc) and names for relatives(mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, sister, brother, etc) * follows multi-step directions involving familiar objects, actions and routines * communicates in simple sentences, often using a series of simple sentences to relate ideas; most often uses correct grammar, but applies familiar rules to unfamiliar words ("mouses" instead of "mice" or "runned" instead of "ran") * initiates telling personal experiences, but usually gives only the main events and leaves out much of the context * initiates conversations; uses "Guess what?" or "You know what?" * can count up to "five" - begins to recognize written numerals "0" through "9 * can put together simple puzzles, and understand that a whole object can be separated into parts