At Five & Six Months, Your Child will Likely…

• Teeth appear.
• Have control of his head and arm movements.
• Hold his head up and looks around.
• Push himself up onto his hands and knees.

Social & Emotional Development:

• Tries to talk to image in mirror.
• Recognize familiar faces and smile at them.
• Search for sounds and turn his head towards them.
• Make most vowel sounds and about half of the consonant sounds.

Intellectual Development:

• Understands he can reach out to tough objects.
• Recognize his mother.
• Distinguish between familiar people and strangers.
• Expect feeding, dressing, and bathing.

Delevopmental milestones associated with feeding:

• Can use fingers to feed self a cracker.
• Chews and bites.
• May hold own bottle, but may not drink from it (prefers for it to be held).

Birth to 18 Months - First Connections with Families
First Connections with Families provides information about child development, reading to your child, and child health and safety.

The Early Learning Guidelines for Ages Birth to 3
This exciting new resource is being written to assist early childhood caregivers/teachers, parents and other adults with information about supporting the learning and development of young children. The Guidelines provide information related to seven domains or areas of learning and development:

• Social & Emotional Developmentment
• Approaches to Learning
• Health & Physical Development
• Language & Literacy Development
• Mathematics
• Science
• Creative Arts