This daycare curriculum covers themes and activities to improve sensory and cognitive skills, communication skills, social and emotional skills, gross motors skills and fine motor skills.

You will learn how to engage in activities like; placing baby in a sitting position and placing one appropriate toy and one safe but in-appropriate object in front of her. Say yes, if baby reaches for the toy and no when she reaches for the in- appropriate object.

Engage them and encourage their brain development with activities in this module

Package Curriculums

Week One

Week One Activity

WELCOME And BONDING ACTIVITIES

Hold baby close. Make eye contact.

Learn baby’s habits & Communication signs.

Hold hands with baby. It is important for baby to get to know and become comfortable with the career.

Tie a string to a toy and partially hide it under a cushion, pillow or blanket. Lift off the concealing object to show baby the object. Cover again and pull the string so that part of the object appears. Increase the portion revealed gradually. Cover object and encourage baby to reveal it.

Also pull the toy around the floor using the string. Let baby do the same.

Week Two

Week Two Activity

Give baby 1 block or object of a small size to play with on a table. Replace the object with a bigger one and tell baby” This is bigger.” Let her play with this for a while. Replace with the smaller one and say “ This is smaller.”

Let baby play with different coloured balls with different textures. Teach baby by throwing, rolling, dropping and bouncing balls.

With baby sitting facing you, cover your face with your hands and say peek a boo! As you remove your hands. Cover her face and do the same. Repeat till she is bored.

Sit with baby sitting facing you, in the space between the 2 of you, hide a toy which makes sound behind two cardboard boxes or other light objects while it is still making noise. Bring out the toy to show baby by moving the 2 boxes/objects apart. Hide it again and let baby find the toy.

Week Three

Week Three Activity

Put a toy inside a colorful empty shoe box or cardboard box. Open the box and take the toy out. Encourage baby to do the same. Clap your hands when baby does the same.

Place toys away from baby and encourage movement as the baby reaches for the toys.

Give baby 2 toys to hold in each hand and then offer a third one to encourage baby to figure out how to hold all 3.

Sitting with baby facing you, hold a soft toy, high above baby’s head. As baby raises head to follow object, drop it onto the floor. Pick up again and repeat so that baby knows to look for it on the floor when it drops. Let baby find and pick the object up as the game progresses

Week Four

Week Four Activity

Place the shoe box or carton used in week 2 on the floor. Throw one toy at a time into it. Encourage baby to do the same.

Clap when toy enters the box.

Use different squeeze toys and rattles to make different sounds. Encourage baby to do the same.

Week Five

Week Five Activity

Teach baby the difference between black and white by placing different white and black items in a container. As you pick out each item, say the colours as you separate them into 2 piles. Repeat several times.

Show baby different parts of the body as you name them.

Mirror Reflection Activities; Let baby look at herself in the mirror. Name the different body parts as you both stand in front of the mirror.

Week Six

Week Six Activity

Tracking Activities:

Put a ball under a table that is covered with a table cloth. Raise the table cloth up to reveal to baby that it is under the table. Cover the ball under the table again and encourage baby to find it.

Also, place baby on your lap, slowly move a rattle while shaking it from side to side to encourage baby to follow it by moving her head.

Week Seven

Week Seven Activity

Guide the child’s hands to identify different body parts. Tell baby what each part is used for as you touch it.

Introduce baby to large building blocks. Guide baby to stack blocks into different basic shapes

Week Eight

Week Eight Activity

Teach baby difference between hot and cold by placing a cold can or bottle in front of baby. Touch it and quickly and say cold. Encourage baby to do same and say cold immediately baby touches it. Do the same with an object that is hot but safe to touch e.g hot feeding bottle.

Week Nine

Week Nine Activity

Teach baby to poke and pinch play dough. Also teach her to manipulate the dough by pulling, stretching and breaking it. Mould dough into simple shapes and encourage baby to do the same.

Let baby also play with a piece of paper by rumpling it and crushing it into a ball.

Week Ten

Week Ten Activity

Show baby several objects that are colour red and blue. Show her each of the red items telling her the color. Do the same with the blue items. Then separate them into 2 groups. Mix them and let bay try and separate them.

Week Eleven

Week Eleven Activity

Repeat exercise from week 10 using red, blue and yellow.

Show baby each of the colours in a book. Also show her several items around the class with these colours,

Week Twelve

Week Twelve Activity

Use your fingers and hands to make simple shadow puppets for baby. Encourage baby to try and move her hands and fingers too.

Also, hide a favorite toy inside a box while baby is watching and let baby find it.

Show baby how to wave bye-bye and high 5.

Also show different facial expressions.

Read to baby from a simple picture book. Point to images in the book as you read.

Read to baby from a simple picture book. Point to images in the book as you read.

Week One

Week One Activity

Talk to baby-describe the environment,

Class room, Playground.

Talk to baby about the order of things e.g. we wash our hands before we eat, pour our food on a plate before we eat, etc

Always show enthusiasm whenever baby repeats or makes sounds that sound like words. Say it back to baby.

Rhyme of the week:

Rock-a-bye-baby

Week Two

Week Two Activity

Play peek-a-boo with baby.

Talk to baby using different facial expressions: happy face, sad face, grumpy face, angry face.

Respond when ever baby coos or babbles to encourage conversation.

Let baby play with toys that make sounds

Rhyme of the week:

Itsy Bitsy Spider

Week Three

Week Three Activity

Show baby pictures (e.g animal book) from a book and name the animals.

Hold baby in a standing position and say “up.” Put baby down in a sitting position and say “down”. Repeat as long as baby shows interest.

Rhyme of the week:

I like to drink milk

Week Four

Week Four Activity

Help baby recognize their name by saying it repeatedly

Talk to baby in high and low pitched voice. Make sounds high/low pitched sounds made by different animals. Tell baby which is high sound and which is low.

Rhyme of the week:

I like to eat apples and bananas

Week Five

Week Five Activity

Read to baby from a simple picture book. Point to images in the book as you read.

Sing ABC song.

Rhyme of the week:

Do you know the ice cream man who lives on Trury lane

Week Six

Week Six Activity

Listen to – 1,2, buckle my shoes and other number songs. Read to baby from a simple picture book. Point to images in the book as you read.

Rhyme of the week: Please and Thank you song

Week Seven

Week Seven Activity

Read to baby from a simple picture book. Point to images in the book as you read. toes.

Rhyme of the week:

Oh where, Oh where has my little dog gone?

Week Eight

Week Eight Activity

Read to baby from a simple picture book. Point to images in the book as you read.

Sing A BC songs.

Rhyme of the week:

Did You Ever See A Bunny?

Week Nine

Week Nine Activity

Sing I,2 buckle my shoes Number songs.

Read to baby from a simple picture book. Point to images in the book as you read.

Place different toys in front of baby and ask her to give you one at a time by asking for them by name. e.g “Give me the car”. If she reaches for a wrong one guide her hand to the right one.

Rhyme of the week:

Little bunny bum bum

Week Ten

Week Ten Activity

Read to baby from a simple picture book. Point to images in the book as you read.

Rhyme of the week:

If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands

Week Eleven

Week Eleven Activity

Listen to

COLOUR

Songs.

Read to baby from a simple picture book with colours.. Point to images in the book as you read.

Rhyme of the week:

How Much Is That doggy in the window?

Week Twelve

Week Twelve Activity

Sing A BC songs

Rhyme of the week:

This Old Man

Week One

Week One Activity

Crawl with baby from one end of the classroom to the other. Lift baby up and down and play in different positions to help develop their sense of movement and balance.

Week Two

Week Two Activity

Let baby crawl around and explore paly area. Place toys so baby can crawl to it.

Squeeze or rattle a toy that makes sounds. Let baby do the same. Repeat several times so that baby will know how the sound is made.

Move around the class room or play area with baby.

Week Three

Week Three Activity

Turn light switches on and off so baby can see. Encourage baby to do the same.

Take a walk with baby around the classroom and compound.

Name Items as you get to them.

Show baby how to open and close a door. Stress the words open and close as you do so. Let baby do it too.

Week Four

Week Four Activity

Place various objects like chairs, stools etc. to create an obstacle course, crawl with the baby around the object. Place baby at one end of the obstacle course while you stay at the opposite end. Encourage baby to scale obstacles as she crawls towards you.

Week Five

Week Five Activity

Place various objects creating an obstacle path, making sure that baby will have to crawl under, on top or around the objects. Place a toy at on end so that baby crawls by scaling the obstacles. Encourage baby along.

Week Six

Week Six Activity

While sitting on a low stool, put baby on one leg so that she straddles and faces you, holding his hands, swing from side to side so that baby balances himself on your knees.

Let baby ride on a toy horse.

Week Seven

Week Seven Activity

Knocking Down Activities (e.g Colorful Empty boxes).

Lay the baby down face up, holding baby’s hands lift her to a sitting then standing position.

Week Eight

Week Eight Activity

Hold baby under her armpits in a standing position while you are behind her. Help lift her leg to kick a ball placed in front of her. Repeat activity encouraging baby to kick the ball herself.

Week Nine

Week Nine Activity

Sit up Activities ( riding on a tricycle)

Also, place a toy on a stool and encourage baby to reach for it by standing up with the aid of the stool.

Week Ten

Week Ten Activity

Get a beach ball and help baby to roll back and forth on it while holding her waist to secure her.

Let baby stand in front of a low stool so that she holds on to it for support. Place a favorite toy on one side of her. Encourage her to play with the toy with one hand while holding on to the stool for support with the other. Move the toy to the other side after a while.

Week Eleven

Week Eleven Activity

Lie flat on your back. Place baby on her back facing up with her head towards your legs. Hold baby’s hands and help her to stand up on your stomach.

Outdoor Project (Listening to stories outdoor)

Week Twelve

Week Twelve Activity

Place baby in a standing position on the floor and hold her hands apart. Lift the baby off her feet gently, repeatedly saying jump as you do so. Stop lifting and encourage baby to jump while still holding her hand by saying jump.

Lay baby on the floor in a crawling position, place a toy away from her in front. Hold her legs in your arms and guide her to crawl with her hands only towards the toy.

Week One

Week One Activity

Continue to study the baby and Habits

Encourage baby to feed herself by giving her some baby cookies or crackers.

Week Two

Week Two Activity

Give baby a paper cup and hold another one. Pretend to drink from yours and encourage baby to do the same by placing your hand over hers to guide cup to her mouth.

Week Three

Week Three Activity

Give baby a toy telling her “take” take it from her saying give me. Repeat it as many times as baby shows interest. Let her play or do other things then repeat the game

Week Four

Week Four Activity

Carry & Rock Baby to music.

Place baby on the ground while playing with toys on the floor with another child. Encourage baby to come and join in the game.

Week Five

Week Five Activity

Stand with baby in front of a mirror. Point to baby and call her name. Point to yourself and name yourself. Use baby’s hand to repeat the game.

Week Six

Week Six Activity

Play Music & Dance with baby.

Stand with baby in front of a mirror. Point to baby and call her name. Point to yourself and name yourself. Use baby’s hand to repeat the game. Then ask baby to point to herself.

Week Seven

Week Seven Activity

Stand with baby in front of a mirror. Point to baby and call her name. Point to yourself and name yourself. Use baby’s hand to repeat the game. Then ask baby to point to herself and then to you.

Week Eight

Week Eight Activity

Tickle baby gently on the feet and tummy to make her giggle. Encourage baby to tickle you too.

Hold her hand while she is holding a crayon and scribble on a sheet of paper. Release her hand and encourage her to scribble by herself.

Week Nine

Week Nine Activity

While showing baby animal pictures, make the sounds of each animal.

Encourage baby to make sounds too. Build Blocks together.

Week Ten

Week Ten Activity

While lying flat on your back, hold baby in a sitting positon on your stomach. Rock slowly from side to side, saying “slow’ . Move faster saying fast.

Week Eleven

Week Eleven Activity

Place baby in a sitting position and place one appropriate toy and one safe but in-appropriate object in front of her. Say yes, if baby reaches for the toy and no when she reaches for the in-appropriate object.

Play with building blocks together

Week Twelve

Week Twelve Activity

Place baby on her feet, hold hands with her and dance to music.

Let baby scribble on paper with crayon.

Week One

Week One Activity

During meal time, let baby touch their food with their fingers. As they touch, tell them the difference between textures, hot, warm and cold.

Week Two

Week Two Activity

Give baby a plastic spoon during feed time and encourage her to bang on the table with it.

Give her a rattle to shake.

Week Three

Week Three Activity

Teach baby to clap by holding hands and repeating it singing “if you’re happy and you know—“ until baby starts doing it. Clap for baby to encourage doing it.

Week Four

Week Four Activity

Put small pieces of edible or safe objects in a bowl in front of baby. Encourage baby to spill them on the table or ground in front of her. Then pick and put them back again. Encourage baby to help.

Week Five

Week Five Activity

Sitting on the ground with baby in front of you, place a bowl between the two of you. Hold small pieces of edible or other safe objects in one hand. With the other hand hold out one piece to encourage baby to take it from you. Gesture and tell baby to put it in the bowl. Encourage her every time she does it.

Hold baby’s hands and clap saying:

1,2,3

Week Six

Week Six Activity

Work with number 1. Write if out, saying it and showing it to baby. Hold his hand, trace and colour 1.

Place a large but light weight object which requires baby to hold with both hands in front of her to hold. E;g beach ball. Encourage her to hold it with both hands.

Week Seven

Week Seven Activity

Sound a: color it on a cardboard holding baby’s hand.

Place a small colorful, safe object in a container and encourage baby to reach into it and pick it up.

Week Eight

Week Eight Activity

Give baby a small ball and hold another. Stand in front of baby and move your ball from hand to hand. Encourage baby to do the safe.

Working with 2

Trace 2 with baby’s hand.

Week Nine

Week Nine Activity

Pour some safe water colour on a board and make line and circle motions with your fingers. Hold baby’s hand and help her do the same. Then let her move her hand around it by herself

Trace

B

on paper with baby’s hand

Week Ten

Week Ten Activity

Working with

3

Trace & color.

Cut & Paste.

Play with baby by banging a spoon on the surface of a table. Give her the spoon to do the same.

Repeat with a plastic bowl tuned upside down. Start with 1 spoon then give her a second one.

Week Eleven

Week Eleven Activity

Show baby pictures in a book by pointing to them. Encourage baby to point out objects too.

Trace

C

on cardboard

Week Twelve

Week Twelve Activity

Get plastic containers or bottles with lids that can be easily pulled open. Show baby by opening them. Encourage her to do same Coloring Activities. (RED CUP)