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Progress for Infants  

Progress for Infants


Hope Street Market: Weighing Station

Suggestion There are plastic play veggies for your child to touch and hold. Allow the infant to feel the weight and texture of these items. Encourage further exploration.
Concept Explore the sense of touch with your baby.

Fact As part of the biosocial behavioral shift at about two months, babies begin to gain voluntary control over their movements when they reach for an object.


None Finer Diner in 1962

Suggestion Look around the diner and talk with your child about the pictures on the walls, the red jukebox, and the pinball machine in the corner.
Concept This learning area will visually stimulate your child.

Fact Vision is the least well developed sense at birth, but vision becomes much more acute during the first year.
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Infants   Infants

Toddlers   Toddlers

Preschoolers   Preschoolers