As an educator, you have the crucial role of helping parents and caregivers build healthy families. InJoy's Age-Appropriate Play: The First Four Years is the perfect tool! This comprehensive three-volume set, brings examples of age-appropriate play to life. By teaching parents the importance of these positive interactions, you can help lay the foundation for lifelong learning.
With Age-Appropriate Play: The First Four Years, parents will learn to:
Promote learning and other developmental skills through play
Provide safe, interesting and appropriate learning environments
Recognize developmental milestones
Volume 1: The First 12 Months
Holding, gazing and talking for bonding and stimulation
Providing open and safe spaces for learning new gross motor skills
Assisting with the emergence of self-awareness using simple games
Playing with household objects to develop fine motor skills
Volume 2: 12 to 24 Months
Stimulating language skills through reading, singing and playing games
Encouraging beginning imitative and imaginative play
Offering intriguing outdoor environments for safe exploration
Inspiring motor skills with balls, water, sand and other everyday objects
Volume 3: 2- and 3-Year-Olds
Developing fine motor skills using art and other tactile play
Promoting positive social behaviors at home and preschool
Improving language skills with music, stories, books and more
Supporting increasingly complex imaginative and cooperative play
TEACH THE PARENTS WELL
Each volume of Age-Appropriate Play includes a Facilitator's Guide with reproducible parent handouts. There are even specific activity recommendations for caregivers, so the teaching is easier, and so is the learning.
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