Emotional Characteristics of Primary School Children.

Emotion according to oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (1999:297) means a strong feeling of any kind, love, joy, hatred, fear, jealous.”Primary school pupils have emotions it could be
pleasant or unpleasant but both play important roles in the live of children and all of them contribute to the personal and social adjustment made by any individual. Primary school pupils are sensitive to the feelings of others, unfortunately this permit them to hurt others deeply by attacking a sensitive spot without realizing how devastated the attack really is, girls may find it more difficult to develop to autonomy and independence because they identify more completely with the mother and her first teacher and also experiences less conflict with them.

 Educational Implication of Emotional Characteristics to Effective Teaching and Learning.

To control this emotion the primary school teacher should provide the children with enriched environment full of friendliness, love, care, and consideration. The teacher should take care of the emotional needs of the children. The teacher can do this by being sensitive to emotions that arise in her classroom since the children have much regard for teachers; the teacher should endeavor to give the pupils much attention but must spread it evenly to every member of the class.

The teacher should provide positive reinforcements as frequently as possible and reserve her negative reactions for nonacademic misbehavior. It is important to avoid sarcasms and ridicule scrupulously in other to satisfy the desire to help. The teacher should assign jobs on rotating bases. Teacher should control the fears of the pupils by showing love and soaking softly instead of being harsh and reprimanding for every move or interaction of the children, teachers should be good listeners, cheerful, humorous when necessary among other these acts will lead them through their fears. If coarse environment is created, school phobia and anxiety may set in and could affect latter life.

Cognitive Characteristics of Primary School Children.

Intellectual depicts the power to integrate experience and process of reasoning abstract.

Generally speaking, primary pupils are eager to learn. One part of the best things in the primary school is the build in motivation of pupils. They like to talk and have more facility in speech than in
writing. They are eager to recite whether they know the right answer or not. Because of their literal interpretation of rules, primary grade children tend to be tattles. Sometimes telling the teacher that someone has broken a school’s rules may be due to the child’s level of moral development. This could sometimes out of malice or is simply a way to draw attention to the misbehavior of others.

 Education Implications of Cognitive Characteristics of Primary School Children.

The school should provide reasonable and stimulating environment through which the child learns basic conceptional skill necessary for life, have a reasonable linguistic repertoire for
meaningful communication and grows intellectually, the stimulating environment should include play grounds. Teachers exercise patience in answering children’s numerous questions and in conversation with them, by doing so learning will naturally take place. 

Primary school children need a lot of exposure which involves what they could see leading to what they know through experience. Teacher should then give the children enough time to interact with their rich environment in other to acquire attitudes for further living. He should encourage the spirit of imagination, inventiveness and appreciation in the children. This could be achieved by engaging the children in meaningful activities.