{"id":2823,"date":"2018-10-05T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2018-10-05T02:10:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T02:10:28","slug":"where-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/10\/05\/where-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Where IS it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nA tray<br \/>\n2 or 3 items for your baby to explore<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2828 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/10\/Where-is-it_-River-Picture-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/10\/Where-is-it_-River-Picture-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/10\/Where-is-it_-River-Picture-2-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><br \/>\nA small blanket or cloth of some kind<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nSit your baby on the floor in front of the tray.&nbsp; Give him one of the items to explore. (Put the others aside for now.) Let your baby explore the item for a few minutes.&nbsp; Choose something that is safe for him to mouth, because that will be part of the exploration!&nbsp; After a minute or so, take the object from your baby and hide it on the tray under the blanket.&nbsp; What is the reaction? &nbsp;If your baby is 6 to 10 months old, he is probably perplexed, wondering where the item went, even though you put it under the blanket in front of him! He has not yet developed what is known as \u201cobject permanence,\u201d which is the awareness that if something is gone from view, it\u2019s not gone forever.&nbsp; Generally, babies at <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2830 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/10\/Where-is-it_-River-picture-1-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/10\/Where-is-it_-River-picture-1-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/10\/Where-is-it_-River-picture-1-1-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>this stage of development learn through exploring the environment that objects still exist even when covered up or hidden.&nbsp; Try it again with another object. It\u2019s a fun game to play again after a few weeks.&nbsp; Playing peek-a-boo is another way to illustrate this concept with younger babies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; A tray 2 or 3 items for your baby to explore A small blanket or cloth of some kind Directions&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Sit your baby on the floor in front of the tray.&nbsp; Give him one of the items to explore. (Put the others aside for now.) Let your baby explore &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/10\/05\/where-is-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where IS it?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-and-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions\/2831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}