Produce a child development assignment (SPICE files)
Danielle Dodds

We are given tables with an approximate guide as to when babies and children should achieve certain key development milestones such as walking/talking. These are known as expected development rates. These are a rough guide and children can develop at different rates.
Mostly children develop in the same sequence, for example a baby will learn to sit, then to crawl and walk in that order. This is known as the sequence of development rates.
The difference is important because……….
“Children’s development is Holistic” – this means although we refer to the different areas of children’s learning for convenience (S.P.I.C.E) in practise children don’t learn in a compartmentalised way. For example I could plan a lesson that is based on physical, like throwing and catching, but the child could get upset when he doesn’t catch the ball so that also covers emotional.

1. Play opportunities with soft toys/puppets. – this covers social as the child might play with other children in a group, this also encourages communication as the child will have to be the puppets voice. 2. Ball Games between two or more children. – This covers Physical as the child will be doing exercise whilst throwing and catching, this might also cover emotion for example if the child drops the ball he/she might become upset. This could also cover communication as the children would have to communicate between themselves whilst catching and throwing. 3. Playing side by side in the sand pit-This will cover social as the child will have to put morals and rules to use for example being polite and sharing the toys and saying please/thankyou. This also covers intellectual as the child uses there imagination to build in the sand.

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