UNIT 016 – Provide Displays (016–K1) – How to select materials to include in the display. When you select materials to include in the display you need to have a good quality of backing paper and border. All the selected materials need to be relevant to a topic that the children are learning about. Where appropriate, 3D materials and textiles can be used to add interest and help to value classrooms and display areas. Often, the display should be the representation of the children’s own work.
Attachment and Infant Care Centers Infants and toddlers need to be helped to make secure emotional attachment to adults. There are many advantages in an infant and toddlers emotional attachment to caregivers. Infants pay special attention to attachment figures. This attention helps the child learn from how the adult reacts and how they speak. Infants learn through informal direction, not a formal lesson or instruction from a teacher.
Theorists Robert Sternberg and Howard Gardner argue that children who can make new connections and draw something new from them is a type of intelligence. It is important to offer children lots of first-hand experiences so that they can develop knowledge and draw from their own experiences. Social Models – These theories look at the environment in which the children are learning and the adults they are supported by. Social models link to cultural approaches and role modelling. Children learn by observing and imitating and so watching and being supported by adults who encourage and work creatively by being flexible in approach, solving problems and painting and drawing with them can help develop their creativity.
Piaget's Theory According to Piaget, children in the earliest stages of life, from birth to 2 years, exist in a sensory-motor stage, where they learn to move and operate their bodies as well as begin to understand simple symbols. In this early stage, children are curious about their environment and begin to learn how to interpret it in sensible ways. The next stage is called preoperational thought and lasts from the ages of 2 until 7. In this stage, children develop stable concepts, mental reasoning and imagination. What is distinct and important about Piaget's views is that he considered imagination and play to be crucial to enable every child to develop his own sense of self and to foster healthy learning habits.
065 Outcome 1 AC1) The seven areas of the EYFS are Prime areas 1) Personal, social and emotional development * This area of learning and development is about how children... * Are confident and self assured * Manage their feelings and behaviour * Makes friends * Shares and takes turn 2) Physical development * This area of learning and development is about how children... * Move and use their gross motor skills * Develops fine motor skills * Learns about healthy living * Manages self care independently 3) Communication and language * This area of learning and development is about how children... * Learns and pay attention * Understands what is being said * Communicates with others * Develops vocabulary and speech Specific areas 4) Literacy * This area of learning and development is about how children... * Enjoy reading books * Likes making marks * Learns to write * Starts to explore phonics and letter sounds 5) Mathematics * This area of learning and development is about how children... * Learns about numbers and counting * Recognises the passing of time * Explores measures, capacity, space, shapes, opposites etc during play 6) Understanding of the world * This area of learning and development is about how children... * Finds out about nature and the world around them * Talks about the people and their local community and learns about similarities and differences * Learns to confidently use ICT Equipment 7) Expressive arts and design * This area of learning and development is about how children... * Enjoys being creative * Sings, dances and makes music * Plays imaginatively * Uses colour to express themselves It
When we work with infants at nursery to help them with basics vocabulary and numeracy we need to choose media that will help them understand. Small children will remember songs, words and rhymes. Infants learn by looking, hearing and touching. They pay attention to voices, music and rattles. Patience is the most important skill.
CYPOP 7 Promote creativity and creative learning in young children. Task 1 links to learning outcomes 1 assessment criteria 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.1 Analyse the differences between creative learning and creativity Creative learning and creativity is normally thought to be about creating things such as art activities but it can also be about being creative in other areas such as science. Creative learning is how the children are actively involved within their own learning and having the ability to make choices and decisions on their own. Creativity is about taking risks and making connections, by allowing the children to explore and express themselves through different types of media and materials including things such as dance, music, making things, drawing, painting and make believe and to make new things happen by using their imagination as well as reality.Creative learning: involves the children to use their investigating, discovering, inventing and cooperating skills, at least one of these four will be seen during creative thinking but most ideally it will be all four. Creativity: all children can be creative if they are given the opportunity and so can all of us adults but its more than just painting a picture on canvas or paper, being creative is about thinking and behaving imaginatively.
I let children participate in the same routines and play experiences, this way I learn to recognize children as distinct individuals with special strengths and needs. I continually make creative modifications to routines and activities so that each child benefits from participating. It is my duty to make sure that all toys and materials are stored and organized to ensure order in activity areas. There is a bin for dirty toys that is out of children's reach. When a toy becomes dirty, such as after a child has played with it and put it in his or her mouth, I put it in the bin.
In daycares many of the staff provides nursery rhymes that would label their parts of the body, for instance 'heads and shoulders, knees and toes' this nursery rhyme enables the child to understand where parts are on their bodies and caregivers also tend to expand on what the function is. Children also acknowledge comprehension skills as to reading, writing etc. Third of all, daycare helps the child to prepare for elementary school. One way that it does this is that the child becomes accustomed to having a different adult around them and helping them to accomplish many of the tasks per day. They also understand how to follow many rules and how they should behave in a different environment other than their own homes.
The ethos of freedom will be considered, as well as the relationship between movement and the intellect with regard to aspects such as exploration and concentration. The Montessori classroom should provide specially designed materials and purposeful activities which help the children to develop essential motor and cognitive skills. Since the child’s ultimate aim is to achieve autonomy, the prepared environment should facilitate this by offering freedom of movement and choice, thus enabling the child to respond to his/her natural tendency to work. A key component of the Montessori classroom is its accessibility; the furniture should be child-sized and the shelves and cupboards should be low enough for the children to reach the materials without the assistance of an adult. They should be able to move around freely, choosing whether to sit on a