Typical Skills Children Learn in Family Child Care
| ACTIVITY |
SPECIFIC SKILLS LEARNED |
| Finding Toys or learning materials to work with by self or with others |
- Cognitive: Makes decisions about interests and abilities.
- Self Help: Finds toys by himself or sets up environment for play.
- Social/Language: Learns to share, barter, manage conflict, and ask for help.
- Emotional: Learns about acceptance and rejection. Expresses needs.
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| Block Play |
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Physical: Learns to balance blocks and lines them up (small motor coordination).
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Cognitive: May count blocks, sees pattern and design. Learns to build and plan structure. Matches blocks that look alike.
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Social: Learns to share and cooperate.
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| Dramatic Play |
- Social: Plays adult roles. Develops self-image and coordinates with others.
- Language: Learns to express self in another role.
- Cognitive: Decides appropriate dress and appearance for role; uses visual perceptions to assess self, others, and play environment. Learns and remembers behaviors to imitate. Develops abstract thinking abilities.
- Self Help: Dresses self. Sets up play environment and finds props.
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| Setting the Table |
- Cognitive: Counts silverware, glasses, and napkins, or places one object by each setting. Follows pattern of place settings.
- Social: Cooperates with other children. May teach younger children to help.
- Physical: Picks up and places objects (small motor coordination).
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| Sitting down to eat |
- Physical: Pours milk, passes the dish (small motor coordination).
- Cognitive: Measures to pour. Understands directions.
- Social/Language: Learns appropriate table conversation and manners.
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Story time or listening to music |
- Cognitive: Listens and retains information. Follows story line (sequencing) with eyes and/or ears. Recognizes words, pictures, instruments, and rhythms.
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| Finger plays and songs |
- Cognitive/Language: Learns words, gestures, and melody (sequencing, repetition, speech and listening skills). Follow directions.
- Physical: Coordinates movements (large motor).
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| Dance |
- Cognitive: Language: Listens to music and rhythms. Learns to understand simple movement directions and their relationship to the music.
- Physical: Coordinates movements (Large motor).
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| Climbing/riding |
- Cognitive: May count the rungs to the top of a climbing structure; plans his climb. Maps out direction and distance to ride; watches for others in path.
- Physical: Large motor coordination, balance.
- Social: Takes turns, interacts.
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| Water play |
- Cognitive: Measuring, pouring.
- Physical: Small motor coordination.
- Social: Take turns.
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| Putting away toys |
- Cognitive: Sorts toys, follows directions.
- Physical: Places object on the shelf, replaces lids, opens and shuts doors.
- Social: Takes turns, learns to handle toys carefully.
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