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Baby Is Born!
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13-15 months (physical)
Large Motor Skills:
-Cruises along furniture
-Walk a few steps alone
-May climb stairs on hands and knees
-Crawls foward and
Small Motor Skills:
-Improved grasping skills
-May try to turn doorknobs
-Can open small boxes
-Builds small towers of blocks -
13-15 months (cognitive)
General:
-Likes to look at pictures and books
-Loves to mimic actions
-Has very short memory
-Experiment new things
Language:
-Slowly increases vocabulary
-Babbles with expressions
-Repeat sounds
-Follows comands such as.. give, come,stop and show me -
16-18 months (physical)
Large Motor Skills:
-Walk sideways
-Stands on either foot with support
-Improves throwing
-Jumps with both feet
Small Motor Skills:
-Likes to grab everything
-May turn knobs of radio and TV
-Works jigsaw puzzles with 1-2 pieces
-Begin to scribble -
16-18 months (cognitive)
General:
-Identifies simple pictures in books such as, ball, doggie,etc
-Has short attention span
-Remembers where objects belong
-Scribbles more freely
Language:
-Vocabulary increases to 6-10 words
-May use two word phrases
-Obeys command "give it to me" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7O0U9OGHew -
19-21 months (physical)
Large Motor Skills:
-Walks sideways and backwards
-Squats easily in play
-Loves to run,jump,and climb
-Jumps foward and in place
Small Motor Skills:
-Can hold two objects in hand
-Holds container in one hand
-Uses one hand more than the other -
19-21 months(cognitive)
General:
-Likes to make marks on paper with big crayons
-Looks at books for longer periods of time, studying picyures
-Completes simple jigsaw puzzle of two to three pieces
-Can distinguish different sounds and smells
Language:
-Responds to directions
-Enjoys hearing nursery rhymes
-Can combine two different words
-Has a vocabulary of about 20 words -
22-24 months (physical)
Large Motor Skills:
-Walks with more assurance
-Walks sideways and backwards with ease
-Throws ball overhead instead of tossing
-Alternates between standing or sitting
Small Motor Skills:
-Holds crayon with thumb and fingers
-Likes to play with modeling clay
-Can stack blocks to make a train or build a tower -
22-24 months(cognitive)
General:
-Is curious about objects in environment
-They like to feel,squeeze,pull,and push objects
-Distinguish between vertical and horizontal lines
Language:
-Has vocabulary of 50 or more words
-Understands more words than is able to use
-Asks for food when hungry
-Listens to enjoys simple stories. -
24-30 months (physical)
Large Motor Skills:
-Enjoys running
-Climbs everywhere indoors, even in forbidden places
-Plays on swings,ladders,and other playground equipment
-Baby fat begins to disappear
Small Motor Skills:
-Opens door by turning knobs
-Can remove wrapping from gum and candy
-Can turn pages in books
-Tears paper and manipulate clay -
24-30 months(cognitive)
General:
-Becomes interested in childrens TV shows.
-Can interpret pictures drawn or painted
-Likes to listen to songs and stories
-Enjoys playing house
Language:
-Vocabulary increases to 500 or more words
-Uses two-word sentences
-Enjoys learning names for new objects
-Uses words to make requests -
30-36 months(physical)
Large Motor Skills:
-Enjoys games involving running
-Likes to sit in adult chairs
-Walks on tiptoe
-Climbs quickly on jungle gym to reach the top
Small Motor Skills:
-Turns doorknobs with greater strength
-Scribbles and draws circles as well as horizontal and vertical lines
-Likes to paint using full arm motions
-Builds towers of 6 or more blocks
-Takes objects apart and puts them back together
-Eats with fork -
30-36 months(cognitive)
General:
-Knows how to classify objects into general categories
-Becomes more skilled in putting puzzles together
-Can stack rings in the correct order
-Recognizes self in photograph
Language:
-Vocabulary increases to 900 or 1,000 words
-Creates 2-3 word sentences
-Asks names of objects and repeats them
-Connects names and uses of objects
