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Shapes and Colors

DAY 4: GYM

SKIPPING

Goals: To improve their gross motor skills and balancing skills.

Presentation: Encourage the children to hold the skipping rope in the hand and ask them to skip over the rope.

Encourage them to move forward and backward skipping.

Skills developed: Develops their gross motor skills and balancing skills.

BACKWARD MUSICAL CHAIR

Presentation: Arrange chairs in two rows back to back or in a circle.

Use one less chair than the children playing the game e.g. (if 8 children then place 7 chairs).

Start some music and have the children to run around the chairs.

When you stop the music, the children quickly find a chair and sit down. The child left without a chair is out. Continue the game, removing one chair each round, until there are two children and one chair left.

The child who gets the last chair wins.

Skills developed: Auditory skills, gross motor skills

MAKING MINI BOOK

Goals: To develop their eye hand coordination, fine motor skills, logical thinking skills.

Material required: Any materials, pictures related to the theme can be chosen, a small book with plain sheet has to be made, glue, crayons.

Introduction and presentation: Children are given one book each and they can be explained about theme and they can stick the pictures or materials or children can draw related to the theme in their book.

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

FOOT TRACING

Material required: Plain papers, pencils or sketch pens or crayons.

Procedure: Children are provided with the plain paper and a pencil or a crayon or a sketch pen and ask the children to place their one palm on the paper in sitting position and try to trace their outline.

Skills developed: Fine motor skills and eye hand coordination.

DAY 5: ACTIVITY