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[quote=Anonymous]I do movement-based activities and an educational outing Tuesday and Thursday.  Monday, Wednesday and Friday are movement outings and educational activities.  For a toddler, that would mean a rotation of 3-5 parks m/w/f, with a random new park every once in a while; if we weren’t dealing with covid, it would also include indoor play spaces.  During covid, educational activities are also somewhat movement-based due to being outside (nature center paths with signs, zoo when it’s not crowded, berry picking, botanical garden, community garden, etc).  When not worrying about covid, some of those activities are incorporated into the rotation for movement and educational activities are story time, craft hour, play date (with craft/game), nature center (inside and out), zoo, aquarium, museums, etc.  At this point, your infant is taking in the world through sight, smell and sound.  The more exposure they have to other languages, other cultures, the wide world, the better it is.  However, young children learn best through spiral-learning.  The other nanny gave a perfect example by visiting the monument after reading several books (likely coloring or doing a craft and maybe incorporating the same theme in other ways).  When I do farm animals, we count animals, coloring animal pictures, use toilet paper rolls and a plastic bottle (and a pipe cleaner tail!) to make a pig, make a sheep from cotton balls and tooth picks, read books about farms, look at pictures of animals and tractors, play games involving animal noises, play phonics games using the sounds animals make and/or animal names (depending on child’s age and ability), all culminating in a trip to a petting zoo.

I’ve been all over the dmv with kids.  I’m trusted on the highways, I’m more paranoid about car seat safety than any employer I’ve had, and if kids were going to be in the car for 45 minutes to 1.5 hours (once every couple of months, if that), I either timed it to coincide with naptime, or we stopped at 1-2 preplanned locations on the way to and from to run around and play.  Most trips were 15-30 minutes, no more than one trip per week which required 30+ minutes in the car seat each way.[/quote]

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