Fun Start: An idea a week to maximize your baby’s potential from birth to age 5. June Oberlander R.
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Название: Fun Start: An idea a week to maximize your baby’s potential from birth to age 5
Автор: June Oberlander R.
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Секс и семейная психология
isbn: 9780007348572
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This activity develops
an awareness of the concepts ‘inside’ and ‘outside’
eye-hand coordination
beginning steps in following directions
independence
an awareness of ‘open’ and ‘close’
Take a shoe box and draw a doorway on one of the long sides. Cut on three of the lines of the doorway but leave one side uncut so that the door can be opened and closed. Use a cotton reel or a similar object that is just a little smaller than the door opening and place it in clear view of the baby.
Show the baby the shoe box house and call it by name. Tell the baby that you are going to open the door of the house. Open the door of the shoe box house and place the empty cotton reel inside. Close the door and tell the baby that the cotton reel is inside the house.
Open the door and take the cotton reel out of the shoe box house and place it beside the baby. Tell the baby that the cotton reel is outside the house. Allow the baby to hold and examine the cotton reel, and observe the baby’s reaction. Does the baby attempt to put the cotton reel inside the house or does he show little or no interest? If there is no interest try again later.
However, if the baby does appear interested, open the door and repeat each step with the baby watching. Be sure to use the words ‘inside’and ‘outside’as you move the cotton reel accordingly. Encourage the baby to do this independently and praise him for any positive response that he makes.
This activity develops
an awareness of different colours
an awareness of the square shape
an awareness of different textures of cloth
enhancement of the sense of touch
an awareness of like textures
Use a piece of cardboard and cut it into 12 square pieces approximately 12 × 12 centimetres. Collect some scraps of different textured and coloured fabrics. Cut two pieces of each scrap the same size as the squares and glue or staple them to the cardboard pieces. This activity will be more interesting if the chosen fabrics are made of corduroy, silk, fake fur, suede, metallic, quilted material or any other textured cloth that will arouse the curiosity or hold the attention of the baby.
Allow the baby to feel each cloth square one at a time. After all of the squares have been examined, place the squares side by side to resemble a patchwork quilt and allow the baby to explore. Observe which squares attract the baby’s attention. Encourage the baby to feel as you touch and talk about them. This is a good time to talk about colours and textures. For example, corduroy is bumpy and silk is smooth.
As an extension of this activity, the baby may benefit from seeing and feeling two identical squares of matching cloth. When the baby is more familiar with the squares, he may show an interest in matching them.
This activity develops
an interest in playing a pretend game
listening skills
vocabulary
visual skills
association of the name and object of different things
Use a piece of cardboard approximately 20 × 30 centimetres to draw an outline of a mirror with a handle. Cut a round hole where the glass mirror would ordinarily be in the frame. Look through the hole and pretend that it is a ‘magic’mirror. Look at the baby and say,‘I see (call the baby by name).’ The baby will delight in seeing your face peeping through the hole of the ‘magic’mirror. If other members of the family are present, pretend to see them in the ‘magic’mirror and call them by name. Use the ‘magic’ mirror and name objects in the room that are in clear view of the baby. For example,‘I see a table.’ Continue to do this as long as you have the baby’s attention. Good voice inflection will serve to retain the baby’s interest.
Put the ‘magic’mirror up to the baby’s face. Make sure the baby is looking at you and say,‘(Baby’s name) sees Mummy’. Encourage the baby to hold the ‘magic’mirror and look at different things that you call by name. If he does not understand, show by touching the object and repeat its name. This activity teaches the baby the names of different things. Although he may attempt to say some of the words, he will probably just listen.
This activity may seem ridiculous to you, but you are playing a game with your baby. The baby realises that a face and other objects can be seen through the hole of the magic mirror, and this fascinates him.
As an extension of this activity, use the magic mirror at various times with the child up to age five or six to play the game ‘I Spy’. It can also be used when teaching a single colour, shape, size, number, letter or word.
This activity develops
interest in playing a game
skill in identifying family members
association skills
listening skills
Glue a baby’s face that has been cut from a magazine onto one side of a piece of cardboard. It will be more interesting if you use a picture of your baby in a frame. Place the picture of the baby face down on the floor. Slowly turn the picture over and say,‘Peek-a-boo’. Put the picture face down again and repeat the activity. Continue doing this until the baby tries to turn the picture over by himself. Change the inflection of your voice as you say ‘peek-a-boo’or ‘Peep po!’each time that the picture is turned over. Continue doing this until the baby loses interest.
At another time, place a picture of a family member’s face down on the floor and play the peek-a-boo game again. As you slowly turn the picture over to reveal the face say,‘Peek-a-boo, I see (use the family member’s name).’ Extend this activity by using pictures of other family members. In this way the baby will learn to associate the name with the correct picture. This will also help the baby learn to call the family members by name.
This activity develops
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