Week 11 (Infant 340)

The quiet book that I made for ivy has lots of colors and textures. Because we have been working on Ivy’s fine motor development, I wanted to create an activity that she could do on her own or with someone. The book has a large knob button on the front to secure the book, and for her to practice those fine motor skills undoing the button. There are many flaps throughout the book that she can open and close. There are literacy components throughout the pages from her name on the book, to numbers, to words of animals and objects.

 Ivy loves turning pages, the felt book has so many textures that ivy will be drawn to touching and feeling with her fingers. She is also able to use her pincer grasp to pinch the different “dresses” and pick up the objects to stick on and off with Velcro. She is very curious in how the world works and exploratory so the zipper would create interest.

Ivy will be starting to learn numbers and letters. On one of the pages there is a peekaboo game with beads and numbers. Each flap has both the number symbol and number name written on the flap. She can also use the zipper up and down to practice life skills.

Shayna can model how to do each task, whether its matching shapes, or zipping the jacket. Shayna can also help ivy learn object names, animal names, numbers, and colors by pointing and sharing the reference of the quiet book. Shayna can help Ivy imitate by saying the different words aloud and helping Ivy say the words back. She can also do actions like “that is the girls hair”. “Where is Ivy’s hair?” or “there is the girls dress, where is Ivy’s dress?”