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Shapes and Colors

DAY 1: ACTIVITY

ORDERING HEART SHAPE BY SIZE

Goals: To improve their cognitive skills of comparing, identifying, recalling and responding, texture skills.

Vocabulary: Heart, shape, ordering, arranging, comparing.

Material required: Different size heart shape toys or pictures.

Introduction and Presentation: Make the children to sit near the table. Keep different size heart shape pictures or heart shape toys on the table. Describe them about the functions of heart. Show them how to arrange the heart shape according to the size of the heart. Encourage them to do the same. They can arrange the heart shapes from biggest to smallest or they can arrange it from smallest to biggest.

Assessment:

  • · On which part of our body heart is situated?
  • · What are the functions of heart?
  • · How many heart human beings have ?
  • Name the instrument we use to check our heart beat.
  • · What is the size of heart?
  • · Count the heart shape that you arranged?
  • · What is the color of the heart?

Evaluation: Evaluate whether they are able to arrange the heart correctly. How well they can answer about the heart.

Skills developed: Sensory awareness. Cognitive skills of comparing, identifying, recalling and responding. Expressive language skills.

BUBBLE BATH FOR BABIES

Goals: To improve fine motor and whole hand grasp.

Vocabulary: Clean, dirty, bubbles, transparent, hot, warm, lukewarm, cold, wet, dry.

Material required: Water, Soap, Tub, Baby dolls.

Introduction and Presentation: Take the tub and fill it with water, add the soap and make bubbles by splashing the water around until bubbly. Ask each child to pick a baby doll and sit down next to the tub.

Explain how it's important to take bath and keep things clean. Demonstrate how to wash the baby very carefully and gently.

Assessment:

  • · Ask them how the bubbles look?
  • · What is the color of water after adding soap?
  • · How does the water and bubbles feel?
  • · What is the shape of the bubble?

Rhyme: "This is the way we wash the baby doll" (from the tune of:"Mulberry bush").

Evaluation: Evaluate if they understand the concepts of wet, dry, temperature, clean, dirty etc. Add dirt in the beginning to make the baby dirty.

Skills developed: Sensory awareness, self help skills, tactile skills, whole hand grasp.

PASSING HEART SHAPED BALLOONS

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

Presentation: Children will sit in a circle form and they pass the heart shape balloon to each other and when the music stops whoever has the heart shape balloon has to get up and do the action, or sing rhymes and then again they pass the ball and other child will get turn.

Skills developed: Auditory skills. Eye hand coordination Concentration Social skills.

Variation: They can pass different items according to the theme.

GENERAL EXERCISE

etc, tooth brush different shapes (triangle, circle, oval, rectangle, and semicircle). Draw the outline of the shape to make a clown shape on the plain sheet and children can see the outline and stick the shapes in those places. One triangle on top, one circle below, two oval shapes inside the circle for the eyes, one upward crescent for the mouth, one semi circle below the circle for the body , two rectangle for legs and two rectangle for hands. Bigger kids can do the collage sticking without the model.

Skills developed: Develops their fine motor skills, eye hand coordination.