The most important period of human development is from birth to eight years old.

During these

years, the development of cognitive skills, emotional well-being, social competence and sound

physical and mental health builds a strong foundation for success well into the adult years . The

write up seeks to justify the significance of a car toy to the development of a toddler .Key terms

to be defined

According to Lucious (2018) learning development is a systematic process which a child grows

and develops in a relation to be physically healthy, mentally alerts, emotionally sound, social

competent and ready to learn and they have direct impact on how children develop learning skills
as well as social and emotional abilities.

The role of the car in the processes of teaching and learning of toddlers it enhances the learning

process into a profound developmental level with effect to child maturity. Thus, the use of a car

allows learners to engage in the learning process with the mind, the body and the emotions fully

involved. According to Wiltz (2012) emotional learning is the chief regulator of developmental

education. The use of this car enhances learning provide children with indivisible involvement.

The use of technologies drives the child’s mind as the child make observations of nature in their

realistic characteristics and this complement to child understanding and development.

According to Keon (2013) learners who are taught concepts with models had the opportunity to

exhibit their knowledge and skillfully ability. Therefore, the use of car enhances learning and

Through association, imitation, practice and reinforcement. Suppose a child is to be taught the

word ‘car’. First of all, the child would be shown the car have a glance at it. Then, the teacher

would tell the child that, ’that is the car’ and make the child to repeat the word to find if he\she

has mastered the word. When the child mastered to say the word, he\she would be given some

reinforcement such as touch a car which helps in child development. Skinner also argued that
sentences can be as verbal chains in which each word serves as both a stimulus and a response.

This means that due to word association imitated by the teacher in the past learned by the child,

each word tends evoke another word in skills response. Hence, language skills learned and

mastered. Listening and speaking skill is fostered through saying\ imitating the word, reading

skill fostered through identifying a circle and writing skill through drawing a circle.

The car model provides learners with a large scale to explore and manipulate a concept in its

natural setting. The model puts learners on the actual ground exposes them to real and natural
worldly speculations. Some environments, elements and properties exist in mind of learners as

ideas such as cars whereas there is need for exposure to reality. Piaget in Kissel (2005) positions

that infants gain knowledge through total involvement in the environment using their senses.

Learners at ECD level are mostly along sensory- motor and pre-operational stage, in which they

use senses to understand the environment. A car item is credited as the most appropriate model

which enhances learning and development of a child concepts since it places learners in the

community while provide learners a large room to fully use their senses.

In enhancing learning and development Montessori in Foliar (2010) advocates multisensory

approach in order to promote retention and knowledge application a teacher must use a real

object. For word to have meaning they must be related to known concrete objects. When

teaching the topic transport and communication the facilitator can only make his or her learners

master this concept by using the car to explain modes of transport. For example, the teacher

should not list the modes of transport but he or she must bring a real car in this case when he so

that, learners should be able to identify the real thing. This means that the use of car instructional

media forms a focal point and attracts attention of the learners and they grasp the concept easily

which develops the zeal for learning.

Thus, through models like this car, learners of social sciences have opportunities to see what they

learn in class and compare it to reality for them to comprehend or to interface the hypothesis of

what they learn in class to unpretentious circumstances which led to child development. Car

model in the learning and development of three to four-year-old provide distinct essentials; one

of them is building a cordial learning environment in the school.

The heightening of accommodating environment is influential in the learning and development

of infants. Baran (2018, online) postulates that provision of relevant materials and tools in any
platform of activity is empowering nobleness. This verdict points that the use of learning

materials elevates the understanding and development of ECD learners however, the involvement

of technological materials enhances a consolidating and conducive learning environment.

According to Elvin (2017) media/learning material is a constant stimulation towards the

understanding of learners in any learning plane. Therefore, to a larger extend this model

enhances learning and development of learners

In addition, Ekiri (2007) states that the teacher must plan activities that relate to what learners

know and experience every day to develop their minds, use model like car that is familiar to

learners or found in develops them, point out that play is children’s work. More so, in Darling

(2004) he states that for children development children learn through play with equipment’s and

the car is one of them using a car to play while driving is a unifying mechanism and that reason

is the most spiritual activity to a child. This implies play way method forms a strong foundation

for language skills acquisition. Then, the teacher’s role is to provide learners with media; objects

that they are familiar and that produce different sound, allow learners to play using the car. As

learners do these activities, help them to tell differences in sound by identifying source of sound

the car is producing, they will respond to vibrations as they perceive Hence language skills
developed in them. So, this car model method become vital in acquisition and fostering of

development in four to 5 years old learners.

In a nutshell using car toys create lasting experience for learners in Early Childhood

Development through exposure to natural environment, practical and hand on involvement hence

it can be argued that toys is a mainstream in the learning of toddlers

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