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Assignment Instructions:

For this assignment, pretend you are in charge of a group of children aged 2 to 6. You are responsible for
their care from 6:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. You must provide safe and quality care for the children. Describe
in detail what you will do for each day of the typical work week (Monday through Friday) to meet their
physical, cognitive, and social-emotional development needs. As part of this for each day, you should
explicitly state what activities you will do (what will you do and why, how long will each activity last,
how will you transition, explain how they are age appropriate, etc.). Each day you must provide three
meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) and two snacks (morning/afternoon). Explicitly state what each meal
and snack consist of and how you are meeting their nutritional needs in a healthy way. How are you
going to meet their various cognitive needs and social-emotional needs throughout the course of the day?
What other factors might you consider during the day and why?

You must justify the actions you are taking through connection back to the developmental theories such as
Piaget’s cognitive developmental theory, Vygotsky’s theory, Freud’s psychoanalytic theory,
Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development, Pavlov’s Theory of Classical Conditioning, Skinner’s
Theory of Operant Conditioning, Bandura’s Social Learning Theory, and Erik Erikson’s Stages
of Psychosocial Development.

For example, in Vygotsky’s work, a large part of this includes scaffolding and zones of proximal
development, so you might include an art activity that begins on Monday and you build in more skills
throughout the week for a finished product on Friday that they can take home.

You must include connection back to at least five developmental theories throughout your
document, these should include references at the end of the document as well as in the text.

I would suggest organizing the document by each day in a calendar like format with specific time periods
as that will more clearly address the time frames for each of the activities. Additionally, you need to point
out how you are addressing the physical, cognitive, and social-emotional development specifically in each
of your tasks throughout the day. So, build in some space for this. You may elect to use bullet points as
well that address each of these areas in a daily format. Writing this out only narratively is not going to be
the best organizational format.

Below are some pdf documents and websites to check out that talk about nutritional information. Many of
us can remember the food pyramid from when we were younger, but now the MyPlate guidelines are what
many focus on, so the links below take you to that information as well as other sources.

Healthy eating for toddlers quick sheet:
https://myplate-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/2022-04/TipSheet_15_HealthyEatingForToddlers

Links to an external site.

MyPlate webpage for toddlers, there are several links to click on at the bottom, I would encourage you to
check some of these out: https://www.myplate.gov/life-stages/toddlers

Links to an external site.

https://myplate-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/2022-04/TipSheet_15_HealthyEatingForToddlers

https://myplate-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/2022-04/TipSheet_15_HealthyEatingForToddlers

https://www.myplate.gov/life-stages/toddlers

https://www.myplate.gov/life-stages/toddlers

Healthy eating for preschoolers quick sheet:
https://myplate-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/2022-04/TipSheet_16_HealthyEatingForPreschoolers

Links to an external site.

MyPlate webpages for preschoolers, see the different links below the resources heading toward
the bottom of the page: https://www.myplate.gov/life-stages/preschoolers

https://myplate-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/2022-04/TipSheet_16_HealthyEatingForPreschoolers

https://myplate-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/2022-04/TipSheet_16_HealthyEatingForPreschoolers

https://myplate-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/2022-04/TipSheet_16_HealthyEatingForPreschoolers

https://www.myplate.gov/life-stages/preschoolers