Preschool Stage of Development

Shady Grove Preschool services a range of children including infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Therefore, opening a discussion to questions on child development could be diverse. Induvial parents will be experiencing a range of issues about their specific child’s developmental concerns. Furthermore, parenting styles will be diverse due to cultural, ethnic backgrounds and income levels.

There are three different stages of development in babies including the prenatal, birth and after birth or postpartum. Before pregnancy, it is important to discontinue any stimulants that would affect the zygote, embryo and later fetus negatively. These include tobacco, drugs, and alcohol. (Santrock. 2002) Caffeine and excess sugar could also be limited depending on the mother’s health. Once conception is achieved it is extremely important for the mother to take proper care of herself. Choosing a prenatal care provider (OB-GYN) that will monitor your baby and provide prenatal testing. If permitted, testing can include testing for Down syndrome and any diseases that can be carried from mom to baby through the blood, include HIV. Another example includes testing your blood type. If your blood lacks the Rh antigen, it is called Rh-negative. If it has the antigen, it is called Rh-positive. When the mother is Rh-negative and the father is Rh-positive, the fetus can inherit the Rh factor from the father. This makes the fetus Rh-positive too. Problems can arise when the fetus’s blood has the Rh factor and the mother’s blood does not. (Pregnancy) If you happen to Rh-negative you will develop antibodies against your baby, thinking it is something foreign. This is turn can cause a baby to have serious brain damage, or even

As an early years practitioner you will recognise that children’s play is closely linked to their learning and development. Children learn in so many different ways but you will notice that they learn mainly through play. When children are able to do many different activity’s that allows them to lean but have fun at the same time thy will find what they are doing fun and will engage the children. It is important that when in you your setting you set up a variety of educational activity’s this way the children will be able to choose freely what they want to do.

In terms of understanding of the world the children used their senses to investigate objects and materials by used. The children also constructed letters with an object and adapted their work where necessary.

     Preschool is something very important for toddlers. Preschools were established in Europe around the late 1800’s. They were later introduced to the United States in the 1920’s. According to the Encyclopedia of careers and vocational guidance 9th edition “preschools expanded rapidly in the united states during the 1960’s”.

During Preschool a High/Scope curriculum setting, they are trying to build school readiness, so the children can move on and continue their growing education (http://www.highscope.org/Content.asp?ContentId=63).

Encourage children - To not only strive to do their best, but also to enjoy the process. Trying new activities teaches children about teamwork, self-esteem and new skills.

Physical: To promote physical development, children will have many opportunities to engage in activities that will strengthen fine motor, gross motor and sensory skills. They will participate in art and craft activities that will allow them to refine the use of their hands and fingers for more precise movements and further develop their hand eye coordination. The children will have the opportunity to participate in several outdoor, large group gross motor activities. These activities are designed to improve coordination (when moving or standing still), balance, and spatial awareness during movement. There are also activities that will engage the children in tasting and touching to help further develop their sensory skills.

To start off, many students aren’t ready yet for the basis of kindergarten as they never finished, or even attended preschool. Attending a preschool gives children an early advantage, and stimulates an early mind. When a child starts their educational journey at the age of three, they get a two year “Head Start,” for themselves, compared to kids who have not attended preschool. This early advantage is a physical and significant benefit for them as it helps strengthen the child from early on. According to greatschools.org, “To sustain children’s excitement and motivation for learning, high-quality preschool and child care programs introduce early literacy and math skills

| 0-3 Months: * Tries to lift head. * Begins to hold objects when placed in hand.3-9 Months: * Establishes head control * Begins to sit with support from about 6 months un-supported.9-18 Months: * Is now very mobile e.g. crawls, bottom-shuffles, cruises, walks.18 Months - 2 Years: * Walks well and tries to run but has difficulty stopping.2-3 Years: * Kicks a ball, learns to jump and may learn to somersault.

Play is inevitable when it comes to children. Given the right environment and objects (of any sort), children will find a way to play. Jarvis, et al state that educators must offer inspiring, playful environments which include hands-on activities and interesting resources. This will empower children to educate themselves (2009). Along the same line, Wood and Attfield consider that an environment inclusive of varied resources will provide room for growth in their learning and will support the child’s “creativity, inventiveness and originally” (2005, p.231).

This toy is simple and fun to let the children play and learning at the same time. It provide a several way of learning, which help the child to growth and develop in many way. When children are making food with the toy, they need to cut up the ingredient, put the food into the plane and switch the temperature and set the timer. To play this toy contribute the children’s motor, perceptual, cognitive and language development.

We all as humans go through different phases in life first comes the kinder garden, then the elementary afterward secondary last comes the high school and finally the university. We listen to songs in order to learn, solve, memorize or study .Yet the most affected educational stage is the childhood stage and that is between kinder garden and the elementary stage. As revealed by scientists children are much faster learners than any other stages (4).That’s because of prefrontal cortex of the brain which is more active in childhood (4).That it allows the brain to so store more memory in younger ages not mentioning that kids don’t have that much things to think about and that there imagination is much wider than others and that gives theme lots

Early childhood is a stage in human development. Early childhood is usually defined as the time period from the age of two until the age of six or seven years. It is a time of significant physical, cognitive, social and emotional development. Infants enter the world with a partial range of skills. Watching a child develop new motor, language and social skills is a source of wonder for caregivers. Early childhood is an important time of growth and change. Most children do not learn in the rest of their lives than they do in early childhood. They are learning new things all the time. Early childhood follow the infancy stage and begins with

By allowing children, a choice to decide their activities and playing partners we are teaching them the strategies to build relationships not only in child care settings, but in a society later in their lives.Furthermore, they also learn if they can or cannot use familiar materials in different ways, For example, in our in class workshop we randomly selected straws and connectors and animal characters. We had a choice to select anything.(intrinsic motivation) This opportunity made us to think what kind of materials we wanted to play with, without any adult interfering (exploration) not only we were motivated as we wanted to make something, but once we gathered our material we were engaged in a discussion about how to make a building out of it.(social interaction) Everyone in our group were proposing different ideas, but finally we decided to make a zoo.(intellectual development). During play a conflict arose between two players regarding sharing the straws and they