All Modules B6-Development Matters in the early years

7. Understanding the world: Approaches to learning about People and communities A Unique Child: Birth - 11 months Positive Relationships: Enabling Environments: observing what a child is learning what adults could do what adults could provide 1. Is attentive to changes in the environment 2. Reacts to voices, changes of light, sound, gestures and expressions 3. Gaze at parents or teacher when being fed or changed 4. Shows curiosity for novelty things and stares for a short period of time while becoming familiar 5. Cries when new things surprises her and calms down when familiar things, sounds, people take care of her 6. Looks for purpose in adults actions even though she cannot express it yet 7. Starts moving body toward interesting things 8. Explore with sight and mouth, banging, and whole body 9. Repeats actions persistently to explore properties 10. Cries persistently until being taken care by adult 8-20 months The beginnings of understanding of People and communities lie in early attachment and other relationships. 11. Is curious about people and shows interest in stories about themselves and their family. 12. Enjoys pictures and stories about themselves, their families and other people. 13. Shows pleasure when exposed to materials for exploration, new sounds, new textures 14. Enjoys playing with water 16-26 months 15. Imitates familiar activities like talking in a phone 16. Pays attention to novelty things and explores persistently to discover attributes 17. Repeats a new skill consistently 18. Initiates relations with sounds, gestures or throwing things 19. Tries new materials Brain is looking for novelty to react in a survival way or to • Offer a save environment where child is exposed to a incorporate the new learning for future connections variety of senses, allowing for repetition Research has proven that babies have intellectual capacities we didn’t know before, like being more interested in goal oriented actions than other things See Personal, Social and Emotional Development and Communication and Language. See Personal, Social and Emotional Development and Communication and Language. • Help children to learn each other’s names, e.g. through songs and rhymes. • Be positive about differences between people and support children’s acceptance of difference. Be aware that negative attitudes towards difference are learned from examples the children witness. • Ensure that each child is recognized as a valuable contributor to the group. • Celebrate and value cultural, religious and community events and experiences 20. Enjoys repetition and persists in doing same thing • Talk to children about their friends, their families, and why 21. Has a sense of own immediate family and relations. they are important. 22. Understands actions can produce certain results and tries • Encourage the use of the wheel of wonder routine to out new things to see reactions promote the understanding of the scientific method 23. In pretend play, imitates everyday actions and events from cycle: Wonder, hypothesis, experiment, observe, own family and cultural background, e.g. making and document, discover & conclude drinking tea. 22-36 months 24. Beginning to have their own friends. 25. Learns that they have similarities and differences that connect them to, and distinguish them from, others. 26. Uses the wheel of wonder Routine (scientific Method) • Provide opportunities for babies to see people and things beyond the baby room, including the activities of older children. • Collect stories for, and make books about, children in the group, showing things they like to do. • Provide books and resources which represent children’s diverse backgrounds and which avoid negative stereotypes. • Make photographic books about the children in the setting and encourage parents to contribute to these. • Provide positive images of all children including those with diverse physical characteristics, including disabilities. • Share photographs of children’s families, friends, pets or favorite people. • Support children’s understanding of difference and of empathy by using props such as puppets and dolls to tell stories about diverse experiences, ensuring that negative stereotyping is avoided. Understanding the world: People and communities Playing and Exploring, Active Learning, and Creating and Thinking Critically support children’s learning across all areas

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