Blue Group: 3 – 18 months
Babies can start in blue group as early as 3-months and our nurturing carers will support them in their journey from wriggling to walking – helping them to expand their little worlds!
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If you are looking for learning and development activities for your little one while on lockdown, have a look at our Earlybird@Home guides for the blue age group:
Development and Learning Objectives for Blue Group Babies:
Language, Literacy and Creative Expression
Maths and Scientific Reasoning
Physical, Social and Emotional well-being
Language, literacy and creative expression
Creative Expression
1. Engages in music, art and dramatic play
Oral Language Development
2. Receptive and expressive vocabulary development
3. Coherent expression of personal ideas, thoughts, and feelings
Emergent Literacy
4. Response to text
5. Phonological Awareness
6. Phoneme-grapheme correspondence
Emergent Writing
7. Print awareness / concepts
8. Tracing, transcription and writing
Maths and Scientific Reasoning
Quantitative Concepts
9. Estimation
10. Verbal and object counting
11. Numeral recognition, depiction and quantity correspondence
12. Relative magnitude and Measurement
Geometry and Spatial Relationships
13. Shape recognition and manipulation
14. Position, Directions and Time
Reasoning
15. Classification
16. Planning
17. Hypothesis Formation
pHysical and social emotional wellbeing
Social Emotional Development
18. Self-regulation
Response to expectations
20. The positive sense of self and cultural identity
21. Persistence in the face of challenges
Physical Development
22. Gross motor coordination
23. Fine motor coordination
Blue Group Daily Routine:
