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Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development

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Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development

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Mirrors offer infants and toddlers opportunities to support early language development, imitation skills, and emotional recognition by observing and exploring their body movements and facial expressions, fostering self-awareness and a sense of identity.

A teacher can facilitate this learning experience by encouraging children to imitate facial movements, prompting them to observe both their own movements and those of the caregiver, and demonstrating light reflection using a mirror.

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Dolls offer infants and toddlers an opportunity to engage in imaginative and role-playing activities. Through caring for dolls, children learn to recognize and understand emotions while developing social skills and nurturing behaviors.

An educator can facilitate role-playing activities that promote caregiving skills, such as rocking a doll to sleep, offering gentle reassurance, or swaddling. These activities may also include pretend feeding, putting the child to sleep, and expressing emotions, such as recognizing when a baby is sleepy, happy, or sad, to support understanding of emotional states.

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Books offer valuable opportunities for infants and toddlers to develop language and literacy skills by exposing them to words and illustrations. When engaging with students through reading, it encourages active listening, verbal expression, and the sharing of their own ideas and thoughts, helping them make connections to the content of the book. As educators, it is important to highlight words and images to foster children’s engagement and understanding of the material.

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Cognition, Motor, Language and Literacy skills...

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Cognition, Motor, Language and Literacy skills...

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Puzzles support the development of cognitive skills, problem-solving, fine motor skills, and memory. They also help enhance language, literacy, and memory. Educators can scaffold by singing shape/number songs, asking, "What shape is this?" "What shape goes in there?" etc., saying the beginning word loudly, and encouraging children to match independently and in teamwork.

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Pots and pans offer opportunities for infants and toddlers to develop cognitive skills through hands-on exploration. By engaging in activities such as filling and emptying containers, children can observe cause-and-effect relationships. These activities also promote spatial awareness as they learn to stack and organize the containers effectively.

A teacher can support cognitive development by providing opportunities for children to explore and manipulate various materials, such as pots, pans, spoons, water noodles, and other objects. These activities can include pouring, filling, and transferring to encourage fine motor skills and understanding of different concepts. Additionally, allowing children to explore sound through activities like banging, shaking, and pouring can further enhance their sensory development.

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Perceptual, Motor and Physical Development

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Perceptual, Motor and Physical Development

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Pegboards support the developmental needs of infants and toddlers by fostering both perceptual and fine motor skills. They enhance hand-eye coordination and visual perception, offering opportunities for children to develop fine motor abilities through grasping, inserting, and manipulating the pegs. Teachers can encourage children to follow specific patterns, assist in manipulating the pegs, and promote activities such as stacking, counting, and comparing.

Similarly, balls assist in the development of gross motor skills by encouraging activities such as grasping, throwing, kicking, and rolling, which promote strength, coordination, and balance.

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Under each domain share a photo of a material that could be used to support children's development. For each material, provide a comment that explains: what skills children can build under this domain when playing with the materials and how an educator could scaffold children's learning with each material to help them build the skills as they are using the materials.