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Shapes and Colors

DAY 2: ACTIVITY

SQUEEZING COLOR SPONGE

Goals: To develop their whole hand grasp, fine motor, cognitive skills of exploring cause and effect.

Material required: different color sponge, water, water tub.

Presentation: Invite the children to the activity. Present them to hold the sponge and squeeze them giving pressure in their palm. Tell them to soak the sponge in the water tub for a while and ask them to squeeze it using their palm. Give each child one sponge and ask them to squeeze it using whole hand grasp.

Assessment:

  • · What is the color of the sponae?
  • · What happen when we soak sponge in the water?
  • Which sponge do you feel heavy, dry sponge or wet sponge? Why?
  • · What happens when we squeeze the soaked sponge?

Skills Developed: Develops their whole hand grasp, fine motor skills, cognitive skills of exploring cause and effect.

Variation: They can also fill the cup by squeezing sponge and describe about half, full, empty, quarter etc.

PATTERNING WITH BEADS

Goals: To develop their pre math skills, eye hand coordination, cognitive skills.

Vocabulary: Pattern, sequence etc.

Material required: Different shapes, size, color of beads.

Introduction and Presentation: Place the cubby with beads on the table. Take two or one same color beads and place it on the table for example: 2 orange beads and 2 green beads. First they can keep two orange beads then two green beads, then two orange beads then two green beads etc. They can do it with using more colors of beads by keeping it alternatively.

Ask the children to follow the same sequence in an order.

Assessment:

  • · How many colors of beads did you use for patterning?
  • · Count the number of beads you pattern?

Evaluation: Evaluate them by observing whether they are able to follow the sequence correctly.

Skills developed: Pre math skills. Eye hand - coordination. Cognitive skills.

FIND THE HIDDEN SHAPES

Goals: To stimulate their curiosity, thinking skills and social skills, pre-reading skills

Presentation: Objects are taken according to the theme.

Hide the objects in the out door play area before children come to play.

Make some clue sheets with pictures to say which color object the treasure is.

Ask the children to search for the treasure (the hiding objects) with the clue sheets

Skills developed: This game develops their pre-reading skills when they track the object with the clue. Their cognitive skills, social skills when they work as a team to find the treasure, it will improve their curiosity and critical thinking skills.

COLOR GAME

Goal: To develop their cognitive skills of learning colors and their gross motor skills, social skills.

Presentation: One child who volunteers to be catcher will be made to tie or close their eyes.

And the catcher will be asked "color, color, what color do you choose".

The catcher will name a color. All others should find and touch that color who ever doesn't touch that particular color will be the next catcher

Skills developed: Gross motor skills. Cognitive skills. Social skills.

MAKE A PRISM

Material required: Chart paper, fevicol or cello tape, glass paper, safety scissors.

Presentation:

Take a chart paper fold it in to two fold, which forms a triangle shape like on both the sides.

Stick the end of the folded part using fevicol or cello tape.

Take some glass paper and cut them into some triangle shape.

Now both the open sides are covered with these triangle shapes, made out of glass paper.

Fold twice

Paste it

Cover the triangle shape with glass paper

BLOCK PRINTING

Material required: Various block, stamp pad, holder, plain sheet or art sheet.

Procedure: Children are asked to hold firmly, pressing the block in stamp pad and print it on the paper. Children can name the print after seeing the impression.

Skills developed: Tripod grasp, fine motor skills of understanding cause and effect.

DRAWING IMAGINARY PICTURE USING SHAPES

Material required: Plain sheet, pencil or sketch pen.

Presentation: Ask the children to draw basic shapes like circle, square, triangle etc on a provided paper and ask them to create an imaginary picture with those shapes for example

Skills developed: Creative thinking, fine motor skills, pre writing skills..

KALEIDOSCOPE

Activity: To watch the design in the kaleidoscope

Goals: To improve their visual discrimination, eye hand coordination, sustaining attention

Vocabulary: Kaleidoscope, prism, cylinder, mirror, pattern and design

Material required: Kaleidoscope

Introduction and presentation: Show how to hold the kaleidoscope and then by closing one eve how we have to see through it. As we keep on turning the kaleidoscope we can see different designs that are formed with different colors. Inside the kaleidoscope there are small pieces of colored glass and the pieces are reflected in the mirror forming the designs and patterns.

Assessment:

  • · What are the shapes of patterns that you see in the kaleidoscope?
  • · What is there inside the kaleidoscope?
  • · How does it make those designs?
  • · Why do you close one of your eyes to see the kaleidoscope?

Closing: Talk about the designs formed, different shapes of kaleidoscope, making of a kaleidoscope

ORANGES AND LEMON GAME

Goal: To develop their expressive language skills, their auditory skills, social skills.

Presentation: Ask the children to stand in a line. Two mentors will hold their hand like a mountain and ask the children to pass through it when the mentors start singing the song and at the song whoever is caught inside has to sing a rhyme to set them free.

Song: "Oranges and Lemons, Sold for a penny All the schools girls Are so manv Grass in green, and the rose is red, Remember me when I am caught"

Skills developed: Auditory skills. Expressive language skills. Social skills.

SHAPE CORNERS

Goal: To familiarize the children with different shapes and to develop their auditory skills and gross motor skills.

Presentation: Different shapes should be drawn on the floor.

Children are asked to walk around the shapes and listening to the audio music.

When the music stops they have to stand on the shapes and name the shape correctly.

Skills developed: It stimulates their auditory skills, receptive language skills, cognitive skills of knowledge of different shapes. Musical chair (But in musical chair whoever did not get chair to sit will be out waiting for next turn).

BUD PAINTING

Material required: cotton buds, paint pallets, different poster color, uncolored art sheet or plain sheet.

Procedure: Children can dip the cotton buds in the paint (different colors) and paint or make dots on the picture qiven holding the bud firmly.

Skills developed: Fine motor skills and tripod grasp.

SKETCH PEN BLOW PAINTING

Material required: Sketch pens for blowing, blower, uncolored art sheet.

Procedure: Insert the specially designed sketch pen in to the big hole and fix it tight. Ask the children to hold the blower such that nib is pointed to the paper and ask the children to blow hard on the other side of the blower so that colors come out like spray. Encourage children to do it inside the picture.

Skills developed: Oral motor skills.

HIT THE STICK

Goals: To improve their attention span, visual tracking skills and sociall emotional skills of enjoying,

Material required: One ice cream stick.

Presentation:

Children are asked to sit and mentor can place the ice cream stick on the table. Ask each child to touch the stick, give three turns for each. When they try to touch take off the ice cream stick back.

Evaluation: Observe how well they are able to track the ice cream stick and touch it.

Skills developed: Visual tracking skills, social emotional skills, persistence skills.

TRACE AND DRAW 3D SHAPES

Goals: To improve their fine motor skills, eye hand coordination, pre writing skills.

Material required: Plain sheets, pencils or crayons or sketch pen, stencils (related to various themes or a block or a shapes.

Presentation: Provide plain papers to the children and given them a stencil or a block or a shape and ask them to place it on the paper and ask them to hold it firmly with other hand and trace the stencil or block or outside.

Skills developed: Pre writing, fine motor skills, eye hand coordination.

WAVING COLORED RIBBONS

Goal: To develop their gross motor skills, Follow directions, social and emotional skills, memory skills.

Presentation: Motivate the children to hold the colored ribbons in their hands.

Direct them to do simple hand movements like up, down, right side.

Make them to shake their both hands holding the ribbons.

Make them to shake hands and also jump simultaneously.

Direct them to hold each other and dance with ribbons.

Make the children do different steps with music and song holding the ribbon.

They can follow some rhythm and pattern and dance.

Skills developed: Develops their gross motor skills and direction skills and memory skills of following the rhythm and pattern.

PASSING BALL BEHIND

Goals: To develop their social skills, eye hand coordination.

Presentation: Children will stand in a line other and the child standing first will pass the ball backward to his friend without turning and the child standing second will receive the ball and pass it on to the next child and so on.

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

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

MAKING RAINBOW

Goal: To develop their creativity, cognitive skills of exploring cause and effect, eye and hand coordination.

Material required: Poster colors (violet, indigo, red, blue, green, yellow, orange), paint brush, scale or bangle, paint pallet.

Presentation: Encourage children to talk about rainbow colors and make them sit around the table.

Give each child a plain sheet and keep paint of 7 colors kept on the paint pallet,

Guide children to use paint brushes to keep one drop of each color on the left corner of the plain sheet.

Give them the scale or a bangle to plain sheet and move it across the other end in 180°C to make curve. Rainbow will be formed

Skills developed: Develops their eye hand coordination, creativity, cognitive skills of exploring cause and effect.

MIRROR IMAGE

Material required: Uncolored art sheet or plain sheet, different poster colors.

Procedure: Ask the children to first fold the art sheet and unfold it again, now paint one half of the picture or put few droplets of paint on one half of the picture and fold the paper again and press it nicely and now children are asked to unfold the paper and observe the impression or designs formed on the paper.

Skills developed: Fine motor skills and eye hand coordination, cognitive skills of understanding cause and effect.