Toddler

This week we begab to learn about toddlers and their developments. We took notes and did many hands on activites to show ways of how toddlers develop physically, and so on. We had five stations with different activites for each. One, for example was blocks. This helps toddlers develop physically because it helps with hand eye coordination and fine motor skills because in order to play with blocks, your fingers and hands are in use.  My class also did a shaving cream activitiy. I was not here for this activity but from what i learned, they played with shaving cream and created whatever they wanted with it. This developed both cognitive and physically skills.

This week, my partner and I had to plan and create a safe/ stimulating child care center. We had to have certain things in our care center such as 11 cribs, a literacy, physical, social development area. We also needed to included where we would store our supplies and necessities. We included an outdoor play area as well. For the dramatic play area, I added a toy kitchen, so that the children can break reality, and become someone of their choice that is different from themselves. We had tables, rocking chairs, changing tables, toy rugs, play-sets, high chairs included. In our powerpoint, We had to include real pictures of items that we were gonna out in our child care, if it was real life.

An Infant has primarily two types of development. Emotion and social. During emotional development, "the bond between the child and caregiver, the child's temperament, and the atmosphere of the home are the most important influences". I believe that this is because who takes care, teaches and loves the child, will shape the infant to who it becomes as it grows up. The care giver, will influence the infant in every way possible. For example, if the care giver is always stressed and worried all the time, the infant will more than likely, grow up to be the same way. During social development, the infant will learn through imitation. The care giver must SHOW what to do is right or wrong. As the infant grows, games such as peek-a-boo and dancing, will help baby grow through play.