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Text Box: Typical Skills Children learn in Family Daycare Activity Specific Skills Learned     Finding Toys or learning materials to work with by self or with others Cognitive: Makes decisions about interests and abilities. Self-help: Finds toys by himself or sets up environment for play. Social/Language: Learns to share, barter, manage conflict, and ask for help. Emotional: Learns about acceptance and rejection.   Block play Physical: Learns to balance blocks and line them up (small motor coordination). Cognitive: May count blocks, sees pattern and design. Learns to build and plan structure. Matches blocks that look alike. Social: Learns to share and cooperate.   Dramatic play Social: Plays adult roles. Develops self-image and coordinates with others. Language: Learns to express self in another role. Cognitive: Decides appropriate dress and appearance for role; uses visual perceptions to assist self, others, and play environment. Learns and remembers behaviors to imitate. Develops abstract thinking abilities. Self-help: Dresses self. Sets up play environment and finds props.   Sitting down to eat Physical: Masters drinking from cup, using utensils (small motor coordination). Cognitive: Understands directions. Social/Language: Learns appropriate table conversation and manners. Story time or listening to music Cognitive/language: Listens and retains information. Follows story line (sequencing) with eyes and/or ears. Recognizes words, pictures, instruments, and rhythms.   Fingerplays or songs Cognitive/Language: Learns words, gestures, and melody (sequencing, repetition, speech and listening skills). Follows directions. Physical: Coordination (small and large motor) for gestures and fingerplay.   Dance Cognitive/Language: Listens to music and rhythms. Learns to understand simple movement directions and their relationship to the music. Physical: Coordinates movements (large motor).   Climbing/riding Cognitive: May count the rungs to the top of a climbing structure; plans his climb. Maps out direction and distance to ride; watches for others in path. Physical: Large motor coordination, balance. Social: Takes turns, interacts.   Sand play Cognitive: Measures sand and maps out roads (special relationships). Physical: Pours, dumps, pushes, gathers, scoops, packs (small and large motor). Social: Shares, interacts, cooperates.   Putting away toys Cognitive: Sorts toys, follows directions. Physical: Places object on the shelf, replaces lids, opens and shuts doors. Social: Takes turns, learns to handle toys carefully