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newborn- responds to being picked up and enjoys feeding and cuddling

6 weeks- gazes at adults faces and social smiles

3 months- smiles at familiar faces and at strangers

6 months- waves bye plays peek-a-boo and shows likes and dislikes

12 months- drinks from a cup with 2 hands and has separation anxiety

18 months uses a spoon plays contentedly alone or near adult and eager to be independent

24 months- displays frustration has temper tantrums can dress self and begins to express feelings

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puppets

matching the emotions

emotion board

books about emotions

emotion charts

art

storytelling

role play

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role play

scavenger hunt

Simon says

storytelling

building games

listening games

play pretend

feeling bingo

ball games

rhythm games

virtual play time

matching games

circle time

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Lisas the best -lexi

p.s lisa is our favourite- miya

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my cats

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slay queens

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Music and Rhythm activities are good for children to learn new songs and engage with one another.

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childcare yayyyyyyy

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physical development is the growth and development of the childs brain and body. They also grow particular skills in physical development, they start too hold their heads up when they are on they tummy, kick both their arms and legs while on their back, grasps adults fingers ect....

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"The Robot Dance!" 🤖 /// Danny Go! Brain Break Songs for Kids

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"The Robot Dance!" 🤖 /// Danny Go! Brain Break Songs for Kids

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Singing nursery rhymes is a fun way to enhance your childs language development and supports your child with pronounciation and vocab.

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children learn to interact with others around them by developing their own individuality and their place in the world they gain communication skills an are better able to understand their own actions

social development in children is most often focused on how a child develops friendships and other relationships

social development is important because it effects others forms of children development a child's ability to interact in a healthy way helps them to develop into more successfully experience's in adulthood

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Playing counting games is a very good way for children of any early age to begin learning the early stages of maths.

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Communication development activities: Reading 

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Communication development activities: Reading 

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Reading childrens books aloud at bedtime exposes your child to different words, language, and storytelling. It can support their listening and imagination skills.

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Sharing interests with each other. Examples could be sharing favourite films or story books. Many children will find they have shared interests and can happily play alongside eachother. 2-5

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Children will learn to communicate through things such as circle time, and group activities. Having these is so important as it help promotes their language development as there is constant communication. It allows the children to speak up and have an oppertunity

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EYFS – Physical development – Fine motor skills

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The ultimate guide to EYFS activities and ideas for nurseries - Blossom Educational

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Looking for EYFS activities that are in line with the 7 areas of learning? Here Blossom shares 29 EYFS activity ideas for your nursery.

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physical development benifits childrens gross, fine motor skills and their brain, at this age they are beginging to become more independant and capaple of doing things on their own which will benifit their physical development

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Piaget's stages of cognitive development | Processing the Environment | MCAT | Khan Academy

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Memory cards because it can help the children strengthen their short and long term memory

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it involves:

expressing feelings

trusting others

showing kindness

having positive interactions with others

develop a sense of right and wrong

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By using shapes with coulers it builds up their mathematical skills and also expands their vocabulary and language development.

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social, emotional and behavioral development starts from birth and continues into adulthood

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According to government guidelines and British Heart Foundation recommendations, it's important for children from walking to five years old to be physically active on a daily basis for a minimum of 180 minutes.

But in what way should children be active, and how can we create exciting physical activities that help young children to develop while also encouraging them to engage and love being on the move?

Planning activities to enhance physical development

Children should be able to explore the environment and choose what they do for a large part of their day, developing skills naturally.

However, well-planned, adult-led activities will enhance their development.

These activities should be interesting for children in order for them to want to engage, but they should be interesting and fun for practitioners too, as this makes for a better experience for everyone.

There are many schemes of work and resources available for early years practitioners to follow. However, it's important to start with the basics and to provide activities that work for the children in your care.

You need to be aware of the skills that children in early years need to be able to achieve, and then help them to do so.

Basic physical skills

The most effective way to do this is to plan around the basic physical skills - for example, jumping, crawling, bending, galloping, skipping and catching.

Children also need to learn social skills such as taking turns, working in pairs and following rules.

Knowledge of these crucial skills is gained through education and supportive resources but also through daily experiences.

If almost an entire group of three-year-olds can jump but one child can't, then it will be obvious that that particular child requires additional support to grasp that skill.

If you haven't planned around jumping and don't focus on that basic skill, there's the potential that you might take it for granted that all children can jump.

Identify three or four skills a week and plan activity based on these skills on a daily basis.

They can be incorporated into known activities, used individually for simple sessions throughout the week, to create wild and wonderful active stories (they don't have to be bestsellers!) and to make up new games and activities based on a combination of skills.

EYFS physical development activities

Not all exciting new activities need to be created from scratch - just add new layers to activities children already know...
The traffic light game
Add new colours and link them to the skills of the week - eg yellow could mean children should skip over the zebra crossing, while pink could mean they should leap over the speed bumps.
Simon says
Incorporate the skills of the week into 'Simon says' to give it more of a focus.

'Simon says' can also be used to boost knowledge of body awareness, which is really important: if children are unaware of how their bodies fit together, they will struggle with spatial awareness.
Active stories
Active stories and games build motor skills while encouraging imagination, creativity and language skills.

They are particularly useful when you are caring for a group with a variety of abilities or ages. Active stories could be based on:

● Animals - in the wild or at the zoo

● Everyday activities - e.g. cleaning the house or going shopping

● Adventures - e.g. pirates on the high seas or astronauts going to the moon

● Fantasy - from fairies and princesses, to knights and dragons

● The weather - the different seasons and elements

● Familiar tales - look for inspiration in children's favourite books

You can incorporate any move or skill you want to into your stories.

For example, on a jungle adventure, you could bend under branches, wiggle out of brambles, jump over streams, gallop up the hill, roll down the other side, stretch up to reach for the squirrels, leap from stepping stone to stepping stone in the river and then creep through the bushes.

You can also create stories with help and suggestions from the children. Ask them questions such as:

● What animal shall we be today? (E.g. tiger)

● Where do we live? (E.g. jungle)

● What do we like to do? (E.g. climb trees, run up the hill, etc.)

● What do we eat?

Encourage children to think about how they have been moving that week (the skills) and to think how the moves would fit into the story.

This can be too complicated for some children, so some guidance may be helpful.
Now dance!
Once you've created and acted out a story, why not create a dance to go with it?

Ask children to help you identify music that matches the story and then to create moves to go with the music.

Incorporate the skills of the week into the dance. This is great for gross motor development. It can be done inside or outside and should be very energetic.

Of course, it can be fun to come up with entirely new ways of getting children moving. Try the following suggestions...
Obstacle courses
Children can:

● Jump, hop or leap from spot to spot

● Bend down to pick up a ball

● Roll a ball between two cones

● Creep, crawl through a box or tunnel

● Pencil roll along a mat

You could also add a fine motor aspect into your obstacle courses, eg threading beads or using large tweezers to move fluffy balls from one container to another.

This will help children who find it difficult to sit down and focus on fine motor activities at other times.
Active cube
For this activity you'll need an ' active cube ' (with clear pockets), plus 'skill cards' and 'number cards'.

Place a different movement skill (eg skip, hop, wiggle, etc) behind a number in each of the cube's pockets.

Throw the cube and ask all children to say the number that is facing up. Then pull the movement card out and say the movement that is face up.

Finally, ask the children to do the movement the amount of times dictated by the number card.

This game can also be played with animal cards. Identify animals that move in ways you would like the children to move that week.
Musical movement
Select music that changes tempo such as a favourite nursery rhyme or piece of classical music.

Encourage children to move to the tempo and volume levels (faster with faster tempos, reaching high if music is loud or high-pitched, and low if music is soft or low-pitched).

Once children have grasped the concept of moving to the music, add in skills, for example:

● skip when a particular sound is made, and wiggle when a different sound is made, etc

● skip faster or slower depending on the tempo, etc

Pre-walker activities

Many movement skills can be incorporated into a baby's day alongside encouraging the important developmental stages of crawling and then walking...
Tummy time
Babies need to spend time on their tummies to develop their muscles and support the development of head control.

This also provides many more benefits such as visual development and body awareness, which are important for fine motor skills.
Crawling
There are many benefits of crawling that babies will miss out on if they skip this important development stage:

● Gross motor development - crawling helps to strengthen the shoulders, back and core muscles (these muscles need to be strong to support writing)

● Fine motor development - crawling helps to strengthen muscles in the hand (which are needed for fine motor tasks)

● Supports bilateral coordination of arms and legs (which is intrinsic for writing)

● Children need to scan their environment with their eyes before moving (we need developed hand-eye coordination to be able to draw and write)
Physical skills for babies
We can support babies to achieve simple skills - eg dance, stretch, jump, creep, spin, wiggle, roll and bend. They will gradually be able to attempt more skills as they grow.
Tania Swift is director of B Inspired, which specialises in supporting early years practitioners to deliver a high-quality physical development programme.
Mini Moves is a useful resource that supports practitioners to deliver skill-based activities. Other resources include Mini Yo! cards and Fantastic Elastic.

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