Learning Milestones for Baby and Mommy (8 - 26 months)
Baby and Mommy class follows a multi-faceted curriculum to allow development in five important areas for baby as well as bonding between mother and baby in English. Every month we have a theme that gives the classes a related learning objective as we explore new activities every class. Each week you will see your baby’s growth in different areas and enjoy being an active part of their progress.
Communication, Language and Literacy
- Take pleasure in listening to and making a wide variety of sounds.
- Understand simple meanings conveyed in speech.
- Enjoy babbling and increasingly experiment with using sounds and words to represent objects around them.
- Respond to words and interactive rhymes, such as 'Clap Hands'.
- Begin to use single-word utterances to convey simple and more complex messages.
- Show interest in stories, songs and rhymes.
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
- Are interested in pushing and pulling things and sometimes press parts or lift flaps to achieve effects such as sounds, movements or new images.
- Show interest in social life around them.
- Recognize special people, such as family, friends or their teacher.
- Begin to build structures with blocks or other toys.
- Explore the environment with interest.
Physical Development
- Use their increasing mobility to connect with toys, objects and people.
- Focus on what they want as they begin to crawl, pull to stand, creep, shuffle, walk or climb.
- Imitate and improvise actions they have observed, such as clapping and waving.
- Express themselves through action and sound.
- Put together a sequence of actions.
- Begin to make, and manipulate, objects and tools for particular purposes.
Creative Development
- Respond to what they see, hear, smell, touch and feel.
- Explore and experiment with a range of media using whole body.
- Move their whole bodies to sounds they enjoy, such as music or a regular beat.
- Express themselves through physical action and sound.
- Create and experiment with blocks, color and marks.
- Begin to listen to or join in rhymes or songs.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Feel safe and secure within healthy relationships with key people.
- Express their feelings within warm, mutual, affirmative relationships.
- Seek to gain attention in a variety of ways, drawing others into social
interaction. - Use their developing physical skills to make social contact.
- With regards to behavior and self-control, respond to a small
number of boundaries, with encouragement and support. - Begin to indicate own needs and preferences, for example, by pointing.
- Make choices that involve challenge, when adults ensure their safety.
- Can be caring towards each other.
- Begin to learn that some things are theirs, some things are shared, and some things belong to other people.
Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy
- Develop an awareness of number names through their enjoyment of action rhymes and songs.
- Enjoy finding their nose, eyes or tummy as part of naming games.
- Have some understanding that things exist, even when out of sight.
- Recognize big things and small things in meaningful contexts.
- Find out what toys are like and can do through handling objects.
- Say some counting words randomly.
- Learn to classify by organizing and arranging toys with increasing intent
- Attempt, sometimes successfully, to fit shapes into spaces on inset boards or jigsaw puzzles.