Infant Development

Infants require constant supervision and a consistent staff that knows the children. Infants can demonstrate a range of positive and negative emotions. Positive emotions include smiling, laughing, showing joy and excitement; negative emotions are crying, showing anger, becoming anxious, feeling guilty or sad and becoming withdrawn. In order to evaluate the developmental appropriateness of an environment for infants in terms of social/emotional development infants physical set up of the classroom must include, Constant supervision, constantly watching and monitoring the infants, watching infants in the high chairs, infants will cry, for example, when their hungry or tired or uncomfortable. Developing Language, using high-pitched, singsong voices, speaking more slowly as you exaggerated vowel sounds, as you talk this helps infants learn the rhythm and sounds of your voice, so infants brains are able to distinguish syllables and recognize which patterns it hears most often. Learning Cause and Effect, when

Infants need movement to learn and to be stimulated. Some Learning Goals for infants brain development may consist of, developing awareness of his/her own body, developing small and large motor skills by learning to control body muscles and learning to pick up things and hold them, developing awareness of own environment. Developmentally appropriate toys, helps infants to grasp and reach, using their small and large motor skills. When infants have play time on their tummy helps build neck and upper-body strength and control. Movement Activities, movement activities encourage infants to be mobile by scooting, crawling, climbing or reaching. A tunnel type of toy engrosses your older infant. This will encourage the infant to crawl through the tunnel by placing your head in the opposite end so that she'll crawl to