Holistic Development Strategies for Children Aged Birth to 5 Years ECE204
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ECE204
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Physical Development
Birth - 2 Years
Experience: Tummy Time
Resources: The soft mat, toys of many colors, mirrors
Suggested Implementation Strategies: We hope that you found it helpful to learn that the baby should be put to sleep on the tummy but for only brief intervals which should increase with time. The ideal is that the child physically tries to grasp toys and look at themselves in the mirror.
Learning Possibilities: Strengthens neck and shoulder muscles, enhances the motor skills and the use of the sense of touch.
Learning Outcomes:
3. 2 There is curbed intervention by adults in childrens lives and the children are assuming more personal health and physical responsibility at this age.
4. 1 Nine figurative learning habits or dispositions that are fostered by children include curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination, and reflexivity.
Related Theory: Piagets Sensorimotor Stage Rationale This paper aims to briefly discuss Piagets Sensorimotor stage and to give a rationale for having this topic as part of the curriculum in a student teaching context. Ideas for Lesson Plans This section provides a composite of lesson plans that can be incorporated into the Sensorimotor stage of Piaget.
Explanation:
2 - 3 Years
Experience: Obstacle Course
Resources: Musical instruments, pillows, walk-through tunnels, ramps, and small soft climbing gyms
Suggested Implementation Strategies: Organize the children into simple race that incorporates an obstacle course for children; this would enable them achieve such movements as crawling, climbing, and jumping over barriers.
Learning Possibilities: In performing the activity, the child will improve his gross motor skills, balance, as well as coordination.
Learning Outcomes:
- 3. How Changing ecosystem structure and function modifies soil, water and air quality Responsible 2 Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing.
- 4. 3 Children build on previous knowing to create new knowing they transfer and transform their learning across contexts.
Related Theory:In this stage, children are of age between 2 to 7 years and during this stage, the childs Turning Point is watched and can only think about things concrete and can only deal with one object at a time.
Explanation:
3 - 5 Years
Experience: Ball Games
Resources: (Sofballs, rubber balls, balls of different sizes)
Suggested Implementation Strategies: Games which include carrying objects such as a ball and catching them such as catch, kickball and throwing balls into baskets.
Learning Possibilities: Cuts down symptoms of various difficulties, including hand-eye coordination, team spirit and communication.
Learning Outcomes:
- 3. 2 In this regard, the children takes more and more roles of responsibilities whereby they are more conscious on their Health and physical self.
- 5. 1 Verbal and non-verbal communication involves the use of words and other various forms of communication for specific reasons between children and others.
Related Theory:Social development theory is one of the most recognized theories which are proposed by Lev S. Vygotsky, a Russian scientist.
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Language Development
Birth - 2 Years
Experience: Story Time
Resources: Picture books, soft toys related to the stories
Suggested Implementation Strategies:Read aloud to children, using expressive voices and showing pictures. Encourage touching and looking at the books.
Learning Possibilities: Vocabulary development, listening skills, and early literacy.
Learning Outcomes:
5.2 Children engage with a range of texts and gain meaning from these texts.
1.1 Children feel safe, secure, and supported.
Related Theory: Vygotskys Social Development Theory
Explanation:
2 - 3 Years
Experience: Sing-Along Songs
Resources: Musical instruments, song lyrics, recorded music
Suggested Implementation Strategies: Sing nursery rhymes and simple songs with children, using instruments to enhance the experience.
Learning Possibilities: Enhances language acquisition, rhythm, and memory.
Learning Outcomes:
5.1 Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes.
4.2 Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem-solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesizing, researching, and investigating.
Related Theory: Skinners Operant Conditioning
Explanation:
3 - 5 Years
Experience: Puppet Shows
Resources: Hand puppets, puppet theater, story scripts
Suggested Implementation Strategies: Encourage children to create stories and perform puppet shows.
Learning Possibilities: Promotes storytelling skills, creativity, and expressive language.
Learning Outcomes:
5.3 Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media.
1.3 Children develop knowledgeable and confident self-identities.
Related Theory: Vygotskys Social Development Theory
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Social Development
Birth - 2 Years
Experience: Peek-a-Boo Games
Resources: Scarves, soft blankets
Suggested Implementation Strategies: Play peek-a-boo to encourage social interaction and understanding of object permanence.
Learning Possibilities: Social engagement, understanding cause and effect.
Learning Outcomes:
1.4 Children learn to interact in relation to others with care, empathy, and respect.
4.1 Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination, and reflexivity.
Related Theory: Piagets Sensorimotor Stage
Explanation:
2 - 3 Years
Experience: Cooperative Play Activities
Resources: Building blocks, play kitchen sets, costumes
Suggested Implementation Strategies: Facilitate play scenarios where children work together to build or role-play.
Learning Possibilities: Enhances cooperative skills, sharing, and turn-taking.
Learning Outcomes:
2.1 Children develop a sense of belonging to groups and communities and an understanding of the reciprocal rights and responsibilities necessary for active community participation.
4.3 Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another.
Related Theory: Vygotskys Social Development Theory
Explanation:
3 - 5 Years
Experience: Group Games
Resources: Parachute, team-based games
Suggested Implementation Strategies: Organize team games where children need to work together to achieve a common goal.
Learning Possibilities: Develops teamwork, communication, and leadership skills.
Learning Outcomes:
2.3 Children become aware of fairness.
5.1 Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes.
Related Theory: Banduras Social Learning Theory
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Emotional Development
Birth - 2 Years
Experience: Sensory Bottles
Resources: Clear bottles, various sensory items (beads, water, glitter)
Suggested Implementation Strategies: Create sensory bottles for children to explore, providing a calming effect.
Learning Possibilities: Emotional regulation, sensory exploration.
Learning Outcomes:
1.1 Children feel safe, secure, and supported.
4.4 Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies, and natural and processed materials.
Related Theory:Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
Explanation:
2 - 3 Years
Experience: Feelings Faces
Resources: Emotion face cards, mirrors
Suggested Implementation Strategies: Use emotion cards to discuss different feelings and have children mimic them in mirrors.
Learning Possibilities: Recognizing and naming emotions, empathy.
Learning Outcomes:
1.2 Children develop their emerging autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience, and sense of agency.
5.1 Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes.
Related Theory: Eriksons Stages of Psychosocial Development
Explanation:
3 - 5 Years
Experience: Emotion Charades
Resources: Emotion cards, open space
Suggested Implementation Strategies: Play charades with emotion cards where children act out emotions for others to guess.
Learning Possibilities: Emotional intelligence, empathy, social interaction.
Learning Outcomes:
1.3 Children develop knowledgeable and confident self-identities.
5.1 Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes.
Related Theory: Golemans Emotional Intelligence Theory
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Cognitive Development
Birth - 2 Years
Experience: Shape Sorters
Resources: Shape sorting toys, various shaped objects
Suggested Implementation Strategies: Provide shape sorters for children to match shapes with corresponding holes.
Learning Possibilities: Problem-solving skills, hand-eye coordination.
Learning Outcomes:
4.2 Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem-solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesizing, researching, and investigating.
3.2 Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing.
Related Theory: Piagets Sensorimotor Stage
Explanation:
2 - 3 Years
Experience: Simple Puzzles
Resources: Age-appropriate puzzles with large pieces
Suggested Implementation Strategies: Offer puzzles for children to complete, encouraging them to fit pieces together.
Learning Possibilities: Cognitive skills, spatial awareness, problem-solving.
Learning Outcomes:
4.2 Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem-solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesizing, researching, and investigating.
5.3 Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media.
Related Theory:Piagets Preoperational Stage
Explanation:
3 - 5 Years
Experience: Science Experiments
Resources: Simple experiment kits, household items (vinegar, baking soda, food coloring)
Suggested Implementation Strategies:Conduct simple science experiments, like mixing baking soda and vinegar, to explore cause and effect.
Learning Possibilities: Scientific thinking, curiosity, observation skills.
Learning Outcomes:
4.2 Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem-solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesizing, researching, and investigating.
5.4 Children begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work.
Related Theory: Piagets Concrete Operational Stage
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Summary
- Physical (Birth-2): Massage Therapy Tummy Time: This is aimed at developing motor skills where children use mats and toys.
- Physical (2-3):Obstacle Course it is a fine coordination with the soft play equipment added to the obstacle course.
- Language (Birth-2):A new group, called Story Time, focuses specifically on early literacy and utilizes picture books.
- Language (2-3):Another program available is the Sing-Along Songs, which enhances language development through nursery tunes.
- Social (Birth-2):Peek-a-Boo Toddlers are also encouraged to socialize with the scarves.
- Social (2-3):Cooperative Play they learn sharing such as sharing building blocks.
- Emotional (Birth-2):Now, lets explore the sensory bath, embraced with duration and variety surprises in sensory exploration bottles.
- Emotional (2-3):Feelings Faces - Teaches emotion recognition with face cards.
- Cognitive (Birth-2):Shape Sorters You are able to add problem solving into this area of learning by sorting toys.
- Cognitive (2-3):Home Simple Puzzles Easy - Medium: Helps to build up the spatial knowledge that comes with using large pieces.
