CDEC 1131
Resource Files
David Melvin
INFANTS
ACTIVITIES
Language Development
1.
Name of
Activity: Picture book
Developmental
Goal—increase vocabulary
Objectives
– speak with an increased vocabulary
Materials—picture
book.
Procedure—teacher
points to picture and says word.
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
2.
Name of
Activity: Vocabulary walk
Goal—increase
vocabulary
Objectives
– speak with an increased vocabulary
Materials—none.
Procedure—
Carry infant around house and point out things in their vision range and name
them
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
3.
Name of
Activity: Sing Along
Goal—increase
vocabulary
Objectives
– speak with an increased vocabulary
Materials—none.
Procedure—sing
simple songs
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
4.
Name of
Activity: Body Talk
Goal—increase
vocabulary
Objectives
– speak with an increased vocabulary
Materials—none.
Procedure—Touch
body infants body parts and say name.
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
5.
Name of
Activity: Peek a boo words
Goal—increase
vocabulary
Objectives
– speak with an increased vocabulary
Materials—none.
Procedure—Hide
objects and then name them when
they are revealed.
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
1.
Name of
Activity: Baby play
Goal—improve
social development.
Objectives
– improve social skills.
Materials—none.
Procedure—hold
infant and talk to infant
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
2.
Name of
Activity: Baby friends
Goal—improve
social development.
Objectives
– improve social skills.
Materials—none.
Procedure—
place infants near each other so they can contact each other
safely.
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
3.
Name of
Activity: Baby reflection
Goal—improve
social development.
Objectives
– improve social skills by making infant more self aware.
Materials—none.
Procedure—
provide non-breakable mirrors near the infant
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
4.
Name of
Activity: wagon ride
Goal—improve
social development.
Objectives
– improve social skills by placing infant with other
infants
Materials—none.
Procedure—
take infants for a wagon ride together to visit other
infants
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
5.
Name of
Activity: Hand and Feet dots
Goal—improve
social development.
Objectives
– improve social skills by making more aware of self.
Materials—none.
Procedure—put
dots on infants hand and feet.
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
Motor
Development
1,
Name of
Activity: Reaching for
Something
Goal—improve
gross motor skills development in the upper extremities
Objectives
– improve reaching skill
Materials—
colorful toys suspended over crib
or an activity toy above a floor mat.
Procedure—keep
colorful toys suspended above the infant..
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
2,
Name of
Activity: Rattle
Goal—improve
gross motor skills development in the upper extremities
Objectives
– improve holding skills
Materials—rattle
Procedure—place
small rattle in infants hand.
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
3.
Name of
Activity: Just Out of Grasp
Goal—improve
gross motor skills development in the upper extremities
Objectives
– improve reaching and grasping skill
Materials—plush
toys, colorful toys.
Procedure—place
colorful interesting objects just out of reach with baby on
stomach.
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
4.
Name of
Activity: Tummy time
Goal—improve
gross motor skills development
Objectives
– improve locomotion
Materials—none.
Procedure—
place infant on tummy to develop crawling skills.
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
5.
Name of
Activity: Sitting up
Goal—improve
gross motor skills
Objectives
– improve motor skills
Materials—none.
Procedure— sit infant in lap on floor when infant
can hold head up.
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
Cognitive
Development
1.
Name of
Activity: Playtime
Goal—improve
cognitive development through perceptual skills
developmenet
Objectives
– improved visual perception
Materials—
rattle
Procedure—place
rattle in infants hand.
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
2.
Name of
Activity: Smells
Goal—improve
cognitive development.
Objectives
– improve sense of smell
Materials—
variety of objects with mild pleasant odors
Procedure—
waft scents towards infant
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
3.
Name of
Activity: Body Parts
Goal—–
improve association between kinesthetic and auditory channels, according to
text.
Objectives
–improve cognitive skills
Materials—none.
Procedure—
touch body part and name the part.
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
4.
Name of
Activity: Textures
Goal—improve
cognitive development through sense of touch
Objectives
– improved cognitive skills
Materials—a
variety of objects that should be large enough not to be a choking hazard and
not have any sharp edges.
Procedure— give infant a
variety of different textured objects to touch.
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
5.
Name of
Activity: Pictures
Goal—improve
cognitive development through visual channel
Objectives
–improve cognitive development.
Materials—pictures
Procedure—show
baby a variety of simple pictures
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results will not be immediate
10 childrens books for
infants (including title,
author and list of
concepts)
1.
TitleThe
Okay Book
Author:Todd
Parr
Publisher:Little,
Brown, and Company
Summary:colorfull
simple pictures illustrate brief text that describes things that are ok, such
as, it’s ok to share.
Concepts:
develops visual and social skills.
2.
Title:
“More more more” Saidn the Baby
Author:Vera
B Williams
Publisher:Tupelo
Books
Summary:Describes
three examples of parental love, each time the child says
“More”
Concepts:
develops child visually, emotionally
and socially.
3.
Title:
My Friends
Author:Nancy
Tafuri
Publisher:Greenwillow
Books
Summary: pictures of animals and a baby. Very little text, and very large
fonts.
Concepts:
enhances cognitive, visual, skills and self concept.
4.
Title:
You Are My Perfect Baby
Author:Joyce
Carol Thomas
Publisher:
Harper Festival
Summary:large
illustrations and text that describes a mother’s love of her
baby.
Concepts:
enhances cognitive, visual, skills
and self
concept.
5
Title:Maybe
My Baby
Author:Irene
O’book
Publisher:HarperFesitval
Summary
: Racially diverse photos of babies, with different props to illustrate
different vocations.
Concepts:
enhances cognitive, visual skills
and self
concept.
6.
Title:
Snow Baby
Author:Mary
Brigid Barrett
Publisher:Red
Wagon Books
Summary:Describes
a day in the snow, illustrated.
Concepts:
enhances cognitive, visual skills
and self
concept.
7.
Title:
My Square Breakfast
Author:Marf
Shulman
Publisher:Grosset
and Dunlap
Summary:shapes,
illustrated by photographs of bagels. Author claims no bagels were wasted in the
creation of the book.
Concepts:
enhances linguistic, cognitive,logical/mathiematic and visual skills and self concept.
8
Title:
Longjohns
Author:
Kit Allen
Publisher:Houghton
Mifflin Co.
Summary:
vocabulary, one word on each page, first clothing nouns, then action verbs,
simple, clear illustrations.
Concepts:
enhances linguistic, cognitive, and visual skills.
9
Title:Red,
Blue, Yellow Shoe
Author:
Tana Hoban
Publisher:Greenwillow
Books
Summary:
Photos of different objects to illustrate colors
Concepts:
enhances linguistic cognitive,logical/mathiematic and visual
skills.
10
Title:Baby
Food
Author:Margaret
Miller
Publisher:Little
Simon
Summary:Large
photos of messy babies eating different foods. One word to desribe the food or
situation, such as “Yummy”
Concepts:
enhances linguistic, visual skills
and self
concept.
Language
Development
1.
Name of
Activity: Reading Together
Developmental
Goal—increase vocabulary
Objectives
– speak with an increased vocabulary
Materials—
toddler level book
Procedure—
read book with toddler. Talk about illustrations
Guidance
suggestions—lasting results will not be immediate but child may ask about
certain words and use them afterwards.
Same book may be read time after time.
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not usually be
immediate
2.
Name of
Activity: Vocabulary walk
Goal—increase
vocabulary
Objectives
– speak with an increased vocabulary
Materials—none.
Procedure—take
a walk with the toddler and talk about what there is to see.
Guidance
suggestions— lasting results will not be immediate but child may ask about
certain words and use them afterwards
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
3.
Name of
Activity: Sing Along
Goal—increase
vocabulary
Objectives
– speak with an increased vocabulary
Materials—none.
Procedure—sing songs
Guidance
suggestions— lasting results will not be immediate but child may ask about
certain words and use them afterwards
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
4.
Name of
Activity: Trip to Zoo or Arboretum
Goal—increase
vocabulary
Objectives
– speak with an increased vocabulary
Materials—none.
Procedure—take
a trip to the zoo or arboretum and talk about the animals or
plants
Guidance
suggestions— lasting results will not be immediate but child may ask about
certain words and use them afterwards
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
5.
Name of
Activity: Play Princess
Goal—increase
vocabulary
Objectives
– speak with an increased vocabulary
Materials—none.
Procedure—pretend
play with dolls with the child and have conversations between the
dolls
Guidance
suggestions—results may not be immediate
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
may not be immediate
1.
Name of
Activity: Visit the mall
Goal—improve
social development.
Objectives
– improve social skills.
Materials—none.
Procedure—take
child to mall and let child play in the soft play area and make
friends.
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate but after a few visits children learn
to make friends.
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
2.
Name of
Activity: Playtime with friends
Goal—improve
social development.
Objectives
– improve social skills.
Materials—none.
Procedure—invite
friends over and have planned activities..
Guidance
suggestions—results may not be immediate but children will develop
relationships.
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
3.
Name of
Activity: Helping with chores
Goal—improve
social development.
Objectives
– improve social skills and ideas about helping others.
Materials—none.
Procedure—
give child simple tasks, such as folding towels to help putting away
laundry.
Guidance
suggestions—give plenty of praise.
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
may be immediate.
4.
Name of
Activity: Sharing
Goal—improve
social development.
Objectives
– improve social skills by placing infant with other
infants
Materials—none.
Procedure—
when friends are visiting encourage children to sharie
Guidance
suggestions—some special toy should be avoided.
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
5.
Name of
Activity: Taking turns
Goal—improve
social development.
Objectives
– improve social skills by taking turns
Materials—some
Procedure—
have children take turns at some play activity or in daily
routines.
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
1,
Name of
Activity:
Catch
Goal—improve
motor skills development
Objectives
– improve eye-hand co-ordination
Materials—
ball
Procedure—toss
ball back and forth
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results
will not be immediate
2.
Name of
Activity: Creative Movement
Class
Goal—improve
motor skills
Objectives
– learn ballet,
eventually
Materials—none
Procedure—
participate in creative movement class
Guidance
suggestions— after two years of lessons the child will know the basic ballet
positions
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—child
will respond more creatively to music
3.
Name of
Activity: Riding Bicycle with training wheels
Goal—improve
motor skills
Objectives
– better co-ordination and balance
Materials—bicycle,
helmet ( if child will wear it.)
Procedure—
provide safe area for riding.
Guidance
suggestions— none
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—
child masters pedaling and steering the bike
4.
Name of
Activity: Dressing Dollies
Goal—improve
fine motor skills
Objectives
– learn to manipulate small
item
Materials—
dolly toy set with different outfits
Procedure—
show child how to dress and undress the doll.
Guidance
suggestions—child is eager to change the dolls clothes.
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—child
will show better fine motor skills in
other activities.
5.
Name of
Activity: Play
Dough
Goal—improve
motor skills
Objectives
– use motor skill creatively
Materials—play
dough.
Procedure—
make some simple play dough objects
that child can imitate.
Guidance
suggestions— imitation leads to art
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—
child will refine their creations after a time.
1.
Name of Activity:
Painting
Goal—improve cognitive development
Objectives – develop
own classification system
Materials— finger paints
Procedure—have
child use finger paints and ask child what the images
represent.
Guidance suggestions—analysis with the child will help the
child develop own
classification system.
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation— compare pictures in a series to see how
meanings evolve.
2.
Name of Activity: Puzzles
Goal—improve
cognitive development through ordering objects
Objectives – improve
logical thinking
Materials— sets of jig saw puzzles of various
complexities.
Procedure— assemble the puzzles. Give some clues by
identifying edge pieces
and corner pieces.
Guidance suggestions— move
up in complexity.
Special objectives—none
Evaluation— after
mastering the simple puzzles the child will become more
confident with the
more difficult puzzles.
3.
Name of Activity:
Counting
Goal—– improve logical k / mathematical skills
Objectives –
learn to count
Materials— toy with beads that can be moved from one side
to the other on
wires. There are ten wires with from 1 to 10 beads.
.
Procedure— count the beads one at a time.
Guidance
suggestions—results will not be immediate but after a while child
will be
able to count
Special objectives—none
Evaluation— ask child to
count different things.
4.
Name of Activity:
Locations
Goal—improve cognitive development through sense spatial
relationships
Objectives – improve language and logical / mathematical
skill.
Materials— use dollies in a doll house.
Procedure— while
playing with dollies use phrases like “Jasmine is going up
the stairs.
Jasmine is up. Alladin is down in the living room, etc..
Guidance
suggestions— none
Special objectives—none
Evaluation—results may
not be immediate, but child should develop better use
of this
language.
5.
Name of Activity: Time to Go
Goal—improve
cognitive development
Objectives –improve awareness of
time.
Materials— dollies
Procedure— use pretend play with dollies
to set up a sequence of events,
describing the sequence of
events.
Guidance suggestions—none
Special
objectives—none
Evaluation—results may not be immediate but child should
develop a better
understanding of time.
10 Childrens books for toddlers (include title, author theme and list of concepts )
1
Title:
Count to Ten Piggy Wiggy
Author:
Christyan and Diane Fox
Publisher:Hand
Print Books
Summary:
Piggy bakes a cake and counts the ingredients.
Concepts:
enhances linguistic, logical/ mathematical skills.
2
Title:
Barney Plays Nose and Toes
Author:
Margaret Larsen and Mary Ann Dudko
Publisher:Barney
Publishing
Summary:
Barney plays Simon says. Could also
be ok with infants.
Concepts:
enhances cognitive,logical/mathiematic and visual skills and self concept.
3
Title:
Olivia Counts
Author:Ian
Falconer
Publisher:
Atheneum Books
Summary:
Counting various things with line drawing of a piglet.
Concepts:
enhances linguistic, logical/ mathematical skills
4
Title:
What Shape Is that Piggy Wiggy
Author:
Chrisyan and Diane Fox
Publisher:
Hand Print Books
Summary:
Piggy builds a house and discovers a lot of shapes.
Concepts:
enhances linguistic, logical/ mathematical skills
5
Title: I
Am a Forest Ranger
Author:Cynthia
Benjamin
Publisher:
Barron’s Educational Series
Summary:Complex
illustrations and text describing a National
Forest and a forest rangers
duties.
Concepts:
enhances linguistic, social skills, self awareness/other
awareness
6
Title:
Baby Kermit’s Nursery Rhymes
Author:
Collaboration by Jim Henson Associates
Publisher:Muppet
Book Press
Summary:
Variations of nursery rhymes with illustration of Kermit and Muppet Baby
Friends
Concepts:
enhances linguistic, visual skills.
7
Title:
Playtime
Author:Various—a
compilation.
Publisher:Candlewick
Press
Summary:Has
stories with counting, rhyming, Jack and Jill, and illustrations of various
toys. Could also be used with
infants.
Concepts:
enhances linguistic, logical/ mathematical skills.
8
Title:Let’s
Pretend
Author:Dessie
and Chevelle Moore
Publisher:Harper
Festival
Summary:A
series of pretend play ideas.
Concepts:
enhances linguistic, logical/ mathematical skills, encourages pretend
play.
9
Title:
Winnie the Pooh and His Friends
Author:
Walt Disney Producitions.
Publisher: Brimar Publishing,
Inc
Summary:
Based on Pooh stories, Tigger plays hide and seek with
Roo.
Concepts:
enhances linguistic, social skills, encourages pretend
play.
10
Title:
Countdown to Spring
Author:
Janet Schulman
Publisher:Alfred
A Knopf
Summary:
Counting animals in illustrations
Concepts:
enhances linguistic, logical/ mathematical skills
Web sites related to infants and toddlers (Include site and description of contents)
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Has a
journal and a bookstore. The page is under development. Their main focus
appears to be children with special needs. 2.
http://childstudy.net/cdw.html A
web site that has a tutorial on the classic theories of child
development developed by
Margaret Mahler,
Sigmund Freud & Erik Erikson. There is a month-by-month look at
development for ages 1-36 Months 2.
http://www.indianchild.com/ A
website oriented towards Indian (subcontinent) children with a large
variety of cultural specific information. Has pages on developmental
expectations,. This
is a site directed towards issues related to black children.
The National Black Child
Development institute works to improve child care across the country and
has network of volunteers.
There is not much directly related to children on the
site. A very
large and extensive web site with information on child development,
psychology, parenting, learning, and health and safety. There is a lot of info on
childhood disorders such as attention deficit disorder, dyslexia and
autism. The site has is
oriented towards children of all ages. Foundation
for Child Development. The
organization has a grant program to study issues related mostly to pre-
education, apparently. There
is an article that compares 7 pre-k programs. 6.
http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/development/ The
child Development Institute has pages on every facet of child development
and recourse directory. They
also have parenting information. 7.
http://www.childdevmedia.com/ A
website with information on videos and tapes for training child care
workers. 8.
http://gucchd.georgetown.edu/ Georgetown
University’s site for child development. Has a lot resources for child
development professionals and training information. Website
of the Council for Professional Recognition. This organization sets standards
and provide credentials for child care
professionals. 10.
http://www.iamyourchild.org/ Parents
Action for Children. Has discussion boards for parents and videos for
parents and caregivers. There are articles on child care
issues. 11.
http://www.americanbaby.com/ Website
of a popular press magazine for parents. There are on-line articles
for parents. 12.
http://www.parenting-child-development.com/ A
web site related to Family Matters! magazine that is also promoting a
book. The site has a lot of
resources related to child development and parenting, including a poetry
section. University
of Binghamton website with information on the program there and
information resources related especially to autism. 14.
http://www.pbs.org/wholechild/abc This
is a well designed PBS
website that maps child development in 4 areas: physical
development, social and emotional development, thinking skills,
communication skills and gives parents links to each of these areas for
basic information on child development. 15.
http://faculty.washington.edu/pbell/kidtech/ This
is a University of Washington sponsored blog site. It is oriented towards how
technology affect child development. The focus seems to be on video games
for older children. 16.
http://www.cdp.auburn.edu/ This
is a site for the
Child Development/Adolescent Development Project. This is a longitudinal
research program that has been going on for years. It followed children from
kindergarten through high school. This site has links to the work that has
been published as a result of this study. 17.
http://www.children-special-needs.org/ This
is a website specializing in vision care for children with articles about
various vision problems and links to doctors. 18.
http://www.homeschoolzone.com/ This
is a website for home schooling that has information on child development
and educational issues. 19.
http://www.cdrchildsurvivor.org/ This
site has information on research done relating the child victims of the
holocaust and also information on non-verbal communication using
the
Kestenberg Movement Profile. 20.
http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/Cohort/Ncds/mainncds.htm This
site is related to a longitudinal study done in England about a group of
children born in a particular
week in March,
1958. The study is called the
National Child Development Study.
Six sweeps to gather data have been conducted since the study
began. Picture
sets 1.
animals
2.
Babies
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3. Things that go.
4. Nature
5. Shapes
6. Clothing
Book.
The Choo-Choo Book.
