Subject: Gross motor skills Activity: How to roll and unroll of mat. Type: Individual Age: 2 ½ years onwards Material: Mat Procedure: Note: The directress has to ensure that the material is in proper order of use. • Check the material and the work site; it should be clean and in proper order. • Invite the child to do the activity. • Introduce the material to the child and the activity and details of everything. • Show the child how to carry the mat from the basket with the open edge
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the areas: Physical - Babies (0-12 months) - I have learnt that babies at this age are learning‚ their gross and fine motor skills such as: Gross motor skills: Baby lies on spine. Arm and leg movements are jerky and uncontrolled. There is almost no heads lag in sitting position. Babies start using the palmer grasp and can transfer objects from hand to hand. Fine motor skills: Babies turn their head towards the light and stares at bright or shiny objects. Babies watch their hands and plays
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Age | Fine motor skills | Gross Motor Skills | Birth | Can open eyes & make faces‚ grasps finger when put in palm of their hand | Can kick arms and wave arms laying on back. | 3 months | Watches movements of their hands and plays with their fingers‚ clasps and unclasps hands and can hold a rattle but not for long. | Lifts up head and chest and can wave arms and brings hands together over the body. | 6 months | Can reach for a toy‚ can move a toy
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Anecdotal Reports Anecdotal reports provide as complete a description as possible of a student’s behavior in a particular setting or during an instructional period. They are useful for analysis rather than evaluation when a target behavior has not yet been identified. When the reason for a lack of academic progress or the cause of some general disturbance has not been identified‚ anecdotal reports help zero in on and identify a target behavior to work on. The observer produces a written
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Toddlers and infants demonstrate an ability not seen in many adults‚ the want to care for‚ and provide abetment for others. This instinct comes from the exercise of altruism‚ which releases the beneficial drugs; oxytocin‚ dopamine‚ and endorphins‚ within the body. However‚ as mentioned previously this capacity does not last for very long after these young children begin to mature. In an experiment carried out by American developmental psychologist‚ Michael Tomasello‚ infant altruism was studied through
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communicating with families‚ and tracking children’s development. Adapt these observation strategies to fit any group of young children. Anecdotal Records: Valuable Tools for Assessing Young Children’s Development Laura McFarland tifying possible developmental delays (Bredekamp & Rosegrant‚ Gather meaningful 1992; Cicchetti & Wagner‚ 1990; information about children. Dodge‚ Heroman‚ Charles‚ & Maiorca‚ 2004). An anecdotal record is a detailed descriptive narrative recorded after a specific behavior
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Environmental factors effecting motor skill development Child development is defined as to how a child ables itself to complete more difficult tasks as they grow in age. Development is often confused with growth‚ which refers to a child’s tendency to grow bigger in size. Parents can become concerned easily when a child’s developmental skills take longer then the “normal” or when pressures of milestones are not satisfied “on time”. Developmental milestones are functioning tasks or skills that should occur at
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and emotional development is important to take into consideration at the toddlerhood age. Children of this age are flooded with new feelings (positive and negative) that they may not have felt before‚ such as frustration‚ anxieties and pleasure. Toddlers begin to become more open to social experiences‚ they are able to meet and communicate with other children in different situations such as daycare or schooling. They begin to take an interest in learning and playing and can understand each person
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Motor Skill Development Growth changes significantly during elementary. Most of these changes can be attributed to the changes in the skeletal‚ muscular system and some body organs. Most children grow an average of 2 to 3 inches per year. By the age of 11 girls stand 4 feet‚ 10 ¾ inches‚ while boys stand 4 feet‚ 9 inches in height and both girls and boys gain between 5 and 7 pounds in weight. In addition to height and weight changes children began to gain muscle mass and start to lose baby
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Outline the stages of learning a perceptual-motor skill as put forwards by Fitts & Posner (1967). What is the role of the coach and what is your role in maximising your performance through these stages? Explain‚ through the use of examples‚ how you have sought to maximise the opportunities presented to you and the extent to which your efforts have been successful. All sports require participants to show some sort of skill in order to perform to a high level. Skill can be defined in a number of ways but
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