Video Transcript
Narrator: The Approaches to Learning domain includes the strand Motivation to Learn. Infants in the first four months begin to show interest in interacting with people and things around them.
Example 1
Text on screen: Attends to familiar caregivers’ faces
On screen: 3-month-old Stella is cradled in her mother’s arm facing her while being fed a bottle. She studies her mother’s face while she drinks from the bottle.
Mother: Is that good?
Example 2
Text on screen: Explores what they can do with their hands
On screen: 4-month-old Quetzaly explores a soft book while being held in the lap of her caregiver. Her caregiver speaks to her in English and Spanish as they interact. Quetzaly reaches for the book with one hand and then the other hand, pulling it toward her.
Caregiver: Oh, look at that! Yes. Oh, you love the book. Yeah. It’s a book.
On screen: She looks at the book while the caregiver holds it and strokes it softly.
Caregiver: So soft book. Soft book, look, soft book.
On screen: She looks at the book while the caregiver holds it and strokes it softly. She reaches toward the book.
Caregiver: (speaking Spanish) Wow, the book. That.
On screen: Quetzaly brings the book toward herself with her hand.
Caregiver: (English) Happy little.
On screen: She lifts the book up, swings it to the side and drops it.
Caregiver: (Spanish) Hold it. Now you hold it.
On screen: Quetzaly grabs the book as the caregiver moves it to her again. She holds the book in one hand and swings the book to the side.
Caregiver: (English) You hold it. You hold it, little one. You hold it, that book. You’re so really strong.
Example 3
Text on screen: Tracks or follows objects
On screen: 1-month-old Amara lies on her back on a blanket, looking up at her mother sitting next to her. As her mother slowly moves a toy side-to-side over of her, Amara turns her head and shifts her eyes to follow the motion.
Mother: There you go. There you go.
On screen: Amara continues to move her eyes and head to follow the toy.
Mother: Yeah.
Example 4
Text on screen: Tracks or follows objects
On screen: 4-month-old Anaya lies on her back on a blanket. Her father sits leaning over her. Anaya holds a ball in one hand and reaches for her father’s long, shiny necklace with the other. She turns her attention to the ball. She moves the ball around and it rolls away from her. She turns her head toward where the ball rolled.
Father: (inaudible)
Anaya: (vocalizing)
On screen: Anaya’s father reaches out and brings the ball back to her. She focuses on the ball again, takes it in her hand and then shifts her focus back to her father’s necklace.