Toddler Development: Weekly Group Plan with Activities & Rationale

This assignment outlines a weekly group plan designed for toddlers, focusing on self-directed play and group gathering experiences. The plan includes daily activities from Monday to Friday, incorporating themes such as soft bears, stampers, sensory dough, and manipulative play with puzzles and block sets. It also integrates art activities like painting and dramatic play scenarios, such as setting up a cleaning workshop or a puppet show. Special experiences involve flannel board stories and finger puppets, specifically focusing on "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." The rationale emphasizes the development of gross motor skills, emotional regulation, and empathy in toddlers. The document concludes with a reflection on how the activities contribute to the children's physical and skill-based improvements, along with a list of references.

Weekly group plan for toddlers

Table of Content.
WEEKLY GROUP PLAN..............................................................................................................1
RATIONALE..................................................................................................................................1
GROUP PLAN................................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

WEEKLY GROUP PLAN
The concept of weekly group activities for toddlers can involve the sitting of all the children
together for an activity generally involving everyone. These such methods or plays are now
broad spread use in various educational institutions across countries. The primary schools can
use the specific plays or activities on daily basis and it is starting to be introduced within the
secondary schools as well. It is generally considered as a special time to share rhymes, foreplays,
play rhythm instruments, can read a story as well as can participate within the movement games
to improve efficiently the skills such as gross motor skills, promoting the oral communication,
learning the new concepts and many more. Having daily physical activities with the toddlers can
make them to effectively enhance their physical strength, socialization, the effective sensory
experiences, can effectively improving the attention plan, can promote a dynamic interaction
with adults. In addition to this, the educators generally have an additional power to make the
effective group times more positive as well as enjoyable for toddlers (Logan et. al., 2019).
RATIONALE
Developing some weekly plan activities can significantly enhance the personal development
of toddlers. It can help to build effective skills such as improving learning the new concepts, the
gross motor skills and many more. in addition to this, it can help to build a healthy relationship
within the classroom, can effectively help to regulating the emotions and can improves the
empathy as well (Yang et. al., 2020).
GROUP PLAN
DATE AGE GROUP WEEKLY THEME/TOPIC
Self-directed
play
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Sensory Play
Dough
with
cutters and
rollers
play dough
with soft bear
stampers
Play Dough
with girls
figurine and
bears as
well.
can play
with soft
furniture
can water
play with the
baby toys and
soft bears
Manipulative Puzzles some
constructive
Play dough
with
can range
the specific
stacking soft
toys such as
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plays, crafts,
arts and many
more.
threading
materials
such as
cotton reels
and beads.
items for
sorting as
well as
matching
for the
colours,
size and
shape as
well.
interlocking
block sets
like Duplo
and many
more.
Block Duplo
“family
set with
the soft
bear
family”
Duplo
“family set
with the soft
bear family”
The unit
blocks with
soft bear
family.
The unit
blocks with
soft bear
family.
The unit
blocks-open
building.
Art paint the
paper cups
paint a bear
box
blank paper
with colour
pencils and
pens
crafted
paper with
crayons.
their own
choices.
Dramatic play Set up a
workshop
area for
the
toddlers in
their
living area
to enjoy.
cleaning
services
The puppet
show.
Set up a
food
market to
support a
dramatic
play within
area.
taking the
care of
stuffed
animals to act
out the role
of a
healthcare
professional.
Group
gathering/special
experience
Mainly
introduced
the
Goldilocks
Flannel
Board Story
The Finger
puppet for
the story
The story
told with
house and
figures.
Acting out
the story.
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and the
Three
Bears
Setup: Get a big box for the soft bears living
such as cave and so on.
Resources: Bear associated books, crafts, the
paper cups.
Notes:
Want to borrow the books for next week:
“The preschool activities.”
Reflection: While performing the activities, it can help the toddlers or children to build their
skills such as gross motor skills as well as physical improvements more efficiently.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Logan, K., Cuff, S., LaBella, C.R., Brooks, M.A., Canty, G., Diamond, A.B., Hennrikus, W.,
Moffatt, K., Nemeth, B.A., Pengel, K.B. and Peterson, A.R., 2019. Organized sports for
children, preadolescents, and adolescents. Pediatrics, 143(6).
Lunsky, Y., Fung, K., Lake, J., Steel, L. and Bryce, K., 2018. Evaluation of acceptance and
commitment therapy (act) for mothers of children and youth with autism
SpectrumDisorder. Mindfulness, 9(4), pp.1110-1116.
Rogers, L.Q., Carter, S.J., Williams, G. and Courneya, K.S., 2018. Physical activity.
In Handbook of Cancer Survivorship (pp. 287-307). Springer, Cham.
Webber, K.C., 2018. A qualitative study of school social workers’ roles and challenges in
dropout prevention. Children & Schools, 40(2), pp.82-90.
Yang, R., Wang, H., Edelman, L.S., Tracy, E.L., Demiris, G., Sward, K.A. and Donaldson,
G.W., 2020. Loneliness as a mediator of the impact of social isolation on cognitive
functioning of Chinese older adults. Age and Ageing, 49(4), pp.599-604.
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