Physical Development Activities
This week we begin working on elements that will become part of your final assignment: a Community Child Development Center Proposal. If you have not already done so go to the week five assignment tab and thoroughly review the instructions for creating the proposal. This week you will be creating three activities that will become part of the Infant Room the Toddler Room and the Middle/Late Childhood Room of your center.
Prior to beginning this assignment readModules 4 and 5 theOswalt article and watch the two assigned videos on physical development:Physical Development; The First Five Years. (2009)andPhysical Development; Ages 7 – 12. (2009).
Physical development especially in infancy and toddlerhood but also into middle/late childhood is primarily focused on the development of fine and gross motor skills. But the milestones and activities for each age group are very different. For example coloring or playing with clay would not be an appropriate activity for an infant to improve fine motor skills but it would be for the early childhood room. And in middle/late childhood children are developing the muscle mass to greatly improve their abilities to run and jump and play organized games that would be not be appropriate for infants or toddlers. There are lots of website aimed at both parents and educators that describe activities to promote development. The activities you select do not have to be complex but they do need to be age appropriate and grounded developmental theory. Focus on the primary developmental tasks of each age period. Foreach of the three activities write a paragraph that addressed the following:
The Physical Development Activities paper