-
Child is able to hear, see, react to the environment, and smell.
Immediately after the child is born, they have these abilities. -
Child has the grasping reflex
As soon as the baby is born, they are able to grasp a finger so strongly that they can be lifted into the air! -
Child has the rooting reflex
As soon as the baby is touched anywhere near its mouth, it will automatically move its head to where the direction of the touch came from. The infant is able to swallow milk, suck, and breathe easily. -
Newborns have exceptional perceptual development skills
Newborns are able to look at their body and surroundings very easily helping them recognize and navigate. -
Perceptual development is extremely important to help learning
Children enjoy learning with patterned materials the most and checkerboard patterns. -
Perceptual development helps children recognize others
When children are born, they are able to remember faces and familiarize themselves with others faces. -
Phsyical development helps children develop over time
As the years go on, children develop immensely between birth and two years old. Weight, height, and supporting the body all come into play. -
A child’s weight increases greatly as the child grows
Infants weigh about 7-8 pounds at birth. By the end of the first year, they gain about 20-25 pounds! -
A child’s height increases drastically over the course of two years
When born, they measure 18-22 inches and grow very fast, especially up until two years old. -
Over the course of time, the child’s phsycial development increases
At two months old, children can raise their head to 45 degrees and roll over as well. In the future, children can sit with support at 5 in a half months, at 7 in a half months can pull themselves to a standing position, at 9 in a half months can walk holding onto an object, at 10 months can creep, at 11 in a half months can stand alone, and at 12 months can walk on their own. -
Children understand and start to develop language
The child uses symbols, sounds, and grammar to understand. -
Symbols are used frequently to help a child learn language
Symbols can be songs, animals, and everyday items. Children learn by others repeatedly saying these things so that they memorize them and have that label to them. -
As children grow, sounds are recognized
Certain sounds of words and letters stick with children. “Ball” usually sounds like “Ba”. They slowly accumulate knowledge of the full word but the start of it is just understanding the sound the word makes when spoke. -
Grammar is used in the child’s learning process of language
In order for the child to learn words and pout sentences together, they must learn the grammar of it. Multiple sentences can be flipped around and mean the same thing, however, they must make sense for the child to learn correctly. For example, “The dog ran outside yesterday” can not be spoke as “Yesterday ran outside the dog”. However, it can be spoken differently as “Yesterday, the dog ran outside”. It all depends on how the person structures their sentences. -
Brief summary of the information provided in this summary
Creating this timeline helped me understand the way newborns grow to young children. I never knew the process of how they learned language and was always asking my parents about it. Children are so complex and it is critical to teach them in a certain time period so that they absorb as much information as possible. Learning more about newborns learning process made me fall even deeper into wanting to work with young children as a career in the near future.
