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Shapes and Colors

DAY 1: ACTIVITY

TELEPHONE

Activity: Illustrates the concept of sound traveling through the medium.

Goals: To make them understand the concept of sound traveling through the medium, and to illustrate the way that a telephone was first invented and created. To improve their auditory skills.

Vocabulary: sound, medium, paper, cups, thread, hearing, observing

Material required: Two paper cups, a long thread.

Presentation: Join the two paper cups with the thread, call two children and ask them to hold either cup while standing far away from each other. Ask one of them to talk and the other to listen. Then remove the paper cups and ask one of them to talk slowly through the thread and ask the other person to listen.

Observation & Reason: The voice is audible when heard though the paper cup connected by thread. The receiver cannot hear anything when the paper cup is removed. When a person speaks from a distance without a thread the sound vibrations gets scattered in the air which is why we hear only a feeble sound.

Assessment:

● Why can we hear the voice audibly when heard through a paper cup?

  • · Which body part helps us in hearing?
  • How will our ears feel when someone speaks too loud over the phone?
  • · What happens when the thread is pulled tight?
  • · If the thread is loose, will the sound be clearly heard?
  • What happens if you cover your ears when someone is

speaking to you, will you hear sound?

Evaluation: Evaluate the following skills: Auditory skills, Sustaining attention, Logical thinking

Conclusion: This activity improves their auditory skills as well as logical thinking. Conclude the topic by reviewing the important details.

PUTTING SOCKS FOR FRIENDS

Activity: Sorting and putting socks correctly in the appropriate foot

Goals: To develop their cognitive skills of comparing, sorting, fine motor skills, eye hand coordination, self help skills.

Vocabulary: Socks, wear, pair, one, feet, foot.

Material required: Different colored and size socks.

Introduction and Presentation: Ask the children to first sort the socks according to the colors and size. They have to take same size, same color matching socks. Let each child hold the socks correctly and put it in their friend's feet.

Assessment:

  • · What materials are socks made up of?
  • · Can a big sock fit your foot?
  • What kind of socks do you need for your foot?
  • How many socks we need to put in each foot?
  • Can we wear different color socks on both the foot?

Evaluation: Evaluate their cognitive skills of understanding one to one correspondence, fine motor skills.

Skills developed: Cognitive skills of comparing one to one correspondence, Sorting, Fine motor skills, Eye hand coordination, self help skills.

Variation: We can ask the child to sort and wear the mittens also. Turning the socks inside out.

TRACING FRIEND.S BODY

Goal: To develop their fine motor skills, eye hand coordination, social skills.

Presentation: Each child is given a chalk with holder and asked to trace his friend's body. Hisl her friend has to lie on the floor without moving, when hel she is tracing the body. Friend can trace his/ her body too.

Skills developed: Fine motor skills, Eye hand coordination, Social skills.

BIRDY GAME

Goals: To encourage children to improve their auditory skills, gross motor skills.

Presentation: We can make children follow the action sequence for the rhyme 'Come birdy birdy some body touch me elbows up, knees bend, bottoms up, tongues out, say quack, quack turn around sit down'

Skills Developed: It improves their auditory skills, gross motor skills, symbolic play