As the child grows he gets new form of communication and relations with others. This form is called personal non situational.
It means that communication begins to be not limited by definite situation or object (“here and now”), it begins to be more theoretical and abstract.
Children start asking many questions
about the world around them, about everything they hear and see, about
relations between people and things and about themselves. They start
to build their own ideas about the world and compare these with adults’ opinions.
Adults become not only sources of knowledge but examples in social relations and human activity. From behaviour of close and important adults children learn the norms of social behaviour, about what is good and what is bad. Children begin to wonder and ask questions about human relations and values.
A child copies patterns of social behaviour from adults and perceives the life values from adults. That is why it is very important if adults have good patterns and values.
Speech has a big development. Children build difficult and
long sentences, they learn more about grammatical correctness of speech.
If at the beginning of the period children often use grammar constructions
of their own or build words not correctly, by the end of the period the
speech becomes correct. They are able to retell quite long stories from
the books or films.
Role game based on plot becomes very important at this period of age. Children play on different plots that model the situations of real life. Most popular are “games in adults”. Taking different roles in games children learn to behave according the situation, they learn to work in team or to cooperate with others and to achieve their purpose. Children try to learn more about what they like to play and it causes more questions to adults and development of interest and curiosity. Playing with others, a child develops his speech as well.
Logical thinking develops a lot at this age. A child begins
to understand things that are impossible to present or show. By 6 years
a child is able to make connections between things himself and this connection
is not based on definite objects but on objects in general.
By the end of the period children are able to plan sequence of actions before they do them.