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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
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