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Infant Week 3: 4/8

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Ideas for Infants and Toddlers
What can you say?

I see you are… (Example: I see you are picking up the balls with the spoon.)

I wonder if you can… (I wonder if you can pick up the bottle caps with those sticks)

What if… (What if we put all the cheerios around the plate?)

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Pick up cereal put on stick

Materials: playdough, noodles, cereal

 

Child learns:

-Language- use words  (into, around)

-Physical - work with hands and fingers

-Cognitive - imagine, create, shapes

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Pipe Cleaners and Colander

Materials: pipe cleaners, colander

 

Child learns:

-Language - Use words (into, up, through)

-Physical  - work with hands

-Cognitive - imagine, create, colors

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Use spoon, transfer objects

Materials: Big spoon, toys, bowls, water

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Child learns:

-Language - use words (under, up, in, into, round, circle, full, empty)

-Physical - work with hands

-Cognitive -colors; solve problems

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Match colors

Materials: Colored bottles, colored circles

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Child learns:

-Cognitive - colors, count, attention; solve problems

-Physical - work with hands

-Language - use words (around, same)

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Pick up tops with sticks

Materials: Bottle caps, 2 sticks, bowl, water

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Child learns:

-Physical - work with hands, balance, hold top with sticks

-Cognitive  - colors, count, attention, float or sink; solve problems

-Language - wet, dry, float, sink

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Pinch and Pick up Balls

Materials: puff balls, tweezers

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Child  learns:

-Physical - hand muscles

-Cognitive  - colors, count, attention

-language - big, small, inside/outside

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