Spiritual

• Feel secure in God's love and care
• Use the terms Jesus and God interchangeably
• Visualize Jesus as a man
• Know Jesus loves them
• Express their love for Jesus
• Want to love and obey God
• Know that Jesus helps them
• Beginning to experience sense of guilt when doing something wrong
• Beginning to ask God and others for forgiveness for wrong things they do
• Need to hear that Jesus still loves, even when others don't show love to them and that He loves and forgives them when they do wrong things
• Worship enthusiastically, especially when they sing
• know that prayer is "talking to God"; beginning to say their own prayers

Need Opportunites to:

• Worship, pray, sing
• hear that Jesus loves them
• act out Bible Stories
• see the Bible as God's Word
• view self as part of God's family

Intellectual

• Better at sorting out people, but may still confuse relationships.
• Can sort objects into two sets
• Can match colors and discriminate between them
• Have a greater understanding about the world and how things work; able to connect experiences and verbalize what they know
• Beginning to know left and right
• Can retell stories
• Think very literally/concretely
• Can be offered challenges to stretch their thinking

Need to learn:

• at their own pace
• through their senses>
• through exploration and experimentation