Jean Barbre - Activities for Responsive Caregiving: Infants, Toddlers, and Twos

I have many people to thank for helping make this book possible. First, I want to thank my family for their support and encouragement. To my husband, thank you for supporting my efforts to give back to the field of early education. Your help in cooking meals, helping around the house, and printing photos allowed me the time I needed to create and write the activities in this book. To my daughters, Kim and Kat, thank you for your interest in and excitement about my writing. To my mother, brother, and sister, thank you for always being my greatest champions.

Thanks to my friend Ingrid Anderson for your support on this book. A special thanks to Kimberly Bohannon for your creativity and willingness to contribute your songs and chants. Your sense of humor and playfulness has added to the joy of writing this book. To Shawn Thomas, thank you for your photography and creativity. It has been a pleasure to capture the images of children from birth to age three with you. To the staff of the Orange Coast College Harry and Grace Steele Childrens Center and the Hatsue Daman Family Child Care Center, thank you for allowing me to photograph your amazing early child care programs.

To my friend Stacy Deeble-Reynolds, thank you for letting me take photographs in your home. And a special thanks to my friends and colleagues who let me photograph their beautiful children. I thank the editorial team at Redleaf Press, especially the work of Jeanne Engelmann and Kyra Ostendorf. Your ideas and direction provided focus to the book. To the creative team at Redleaf Press, thank you for making the activities come to life through formatting and images. And to you, the reader of this book: You are important in the lives of very young children.

You make a tremendous difference in their growth and development. As a responsive caregiver, you help children begin their lives in loving, caring, and nurturing environments. My goal in creating the activities in this book is to make them easy and fun to incorporate into your program. Infant and toddlerhood are amazing times of discovery and exploration. I hope you will enjoy expanding childrens learning through the playful activities in this book. I = Infant activity, I/T = Infant and toddler activity, T = Toddler activity Social-Emotional Development

Sense of selfPersonal identityRelationships with adultsRelationships with peersSelf-regulationEmpathyCaring for othersSharingPhysical DevelopmentPerceptionGross-motor skillsFine-motor skillsCognitive DevelopmentCause and effectMemorySpatial awarenessConnecting experiencesNumber awarenessImitating othersProgression of playFollowing simple directionsLanguage DevelopmentReceptive languageExpressive languageCommunicating needsConnecting words with real-world knowledgeConcept wordsEngaging in printEngaging in music, rhythm, and rhymeUsing language in playSocial-Emotional DevelopmentABC I Like Me! by Nancy Carlson All Asleep by Joanna Walsh Are You a Butterfly? by Judy Allen and Tudor Humphries Baby da Vinci: My Body by Julie Aigner-Clark Baby Face: A Mirror Book by Gwynne L.

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Hallinan The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper Lots of Feelings by Shelley Rotner Mine! A Sesame Street Book About Sharing by Linda Hayward Mommy Hugs by Karen Katz Mommys Little Star by Janet Bingham My First Body Board Book by DK Publishing My Hands by Aliki My New School by Kirsten Hall National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Animals by Catherine D. Hughes On Monday When It Rained by Cherryl Kachenmeister The Pudgy Where Is Your Nose? Book by Laura Rader Richard Scarrys Please and Thank You Book by Richard Scarry Sharing Time by Elizabeth Verdick Sleep by Roger Priddy Sleep Tight! by Sue Baker A Splendid Friend, Indeed by Suzanne Bloom Thats What a Friend Is by P. K. Hallinan Today I Feel Silly: And Other Moods That Make My Day by Jamie Lee Curtis Too Loud Lily by Sofie Laguna Too Many Toys by David Shannon We Are All AlikeWe Are All Different by Cheltenham Elementary School Kindergartners We Are Best Friends by Aliki Whats Wrong, Little Pookie? by Sandra Boynton When I Care About Others by Cornelia Maude Spelman When I Miss You by Cornelia Maude Spelman Where Is Babys Belly Button? by Karen Katz Whos That Baby? by Susan Amerikaner Physical Development

Baby Touch and Feel 1, 2, 3 by DK Publishing Baby Touch and Feel Animals by DK Publishing Baby Touch and Feel Farm by DK Publishing Barnyard Dance! by Sandra Boynton Caillou Moves Around by Christine LHeureux Dancing Feet! by Lindsey Craig Dont Touch, Its Hot by David Algrim Doras Eggs by Julie Sykes First Steps by Lee Wardlaw First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger Giraffes Cant Dance by Giles Andreae Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson Here Are My Hands by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault I Am Sick by Patricia Jensen I Can by Helen Oxenbury Listening Time by Elizabeth Verdick Pat the Bunny: Shake, Shake, Bunny by Golden Books Playtime by Roger Priddy Playtime: Push, Pull, and Play by Emma Damon Poohs Touch and Feel Visit by A. A.

Milne Ready, Set, Walk! by Warner Brothers Ten Little Fingers by Annie Kubler This Little Piggy by Annie Kubler Touch and Feel Adventure: Discovering Colors andTextures by Alexis Barad-Cutler Touch and Feel Baby Animals by Julie Aigner-Clark Two Eyes, a Nose, and a Mouth by Roberta Grobel Intrater What Can I See? by Annie Kubler What Makes the Seasons? by Megan Montague Cash Whose Back Is Bumpy? by Kate Davis Wiggle and Move by Sanja Rescek Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin by Lloyd Moss Cognitive Development

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