Unit 18 E2

E1: Describe the development of children in a selected age range and in TWO (2) areas of development/E2:Describe the development of children in a selected age range, different from E1 and in TWO (2) areas of development.

I am going to describe the development of children aged birth to three years and three to seven years and also describe two areas of development which are: physical development and social development for the selected age range.

Children from birth to three months start to develop motor skills from head moves down through arms and the trunk and then the legs and then the feet. A baby turns its head side to side when laying on the back or belly and brings both hands together at chest or mouth at one month of age. At the age of 3months the child starts
The proximal zone is, the gap between what children are already able to do and what they are not quite ready to achieve by themselves. Vygotsky suggested that interactive learning with adults is most effective in helping children cross this zone. According to Vygotsky, adults and more advanced peers must help direct and organize a child's learning before the child can master and internalize it. For instance, at my placement I have seen my supervisor planning an activity which helps children develop their intellectual development e.g. I have done activity with children where they had to make snow man shape. I already had two circle one was small which represented snow man face and the other was big circle which was snow man’s body. Children had to tell me which is the small circle and which is the big circle and what was the shape of snow man’s that was it square or rectangle, before they stick the snow man on the