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Shapes and Colors

ACTIVITY

CLEAN UP BITS OF PAPER

Goals: To improve their whole hand movement, fine motor, self help skills, pre math skills of grouping.

Vocabulary: Pick, broom, dustpan, clean, paper bits, dirty, messy, gravity, sorting, grouping

Material required: Toy broom, dust pan, bits of paper.

Presentation: Drop bits of paper on the ground present to the children how to sweep the bits of paper using toy dust pan.

Closing: Ask them to try the same.

Evaluation: Evaluate their self help skills, fine motor and whole hand movement and record the observation.

Skills Developed: Gross motor; Fine motor, Sensorial, problem solving and language

Variation: They can clean up toys from different cubbies and sort it into right cubbies. Go out door and clean the qarden. Tell them to sort the paper and leaves and other items into different bins. Mop after cleaning the dust using wet cloth or mop, learn to squeeze the towel or the mop.

BLOWING WATER USING STRAW

Goals: To improve their oral motor skill, language skill, cause and effect

Vocabulary - Blow, water, straw, air.

Material required: Water, straw

Presentation: Make each child sit at the table. To present the activity, take straw and take some water in a bowl. Holding one end of the straw to your mouth and the other end above the water, start blowing through the hole. Then demonstrate how when you blow air through the straw .the water particles moves. Ask each child to blow into a straw and observe the movement. Give some heavy objects and ask them to blow it.

Assessment:

  • · When we blow what comes out?
  • · What happens when we blow water with straw?
  • · What helps the water to move?
  • · Can we move heavy objects by blowing?

Variation: Then can even blow beads, wooden chips etc.

Evaluation: Evaluate each child's ability to blow with straw

Evaluate their oral motor skill, their concentration on the activity, their understanding of cause and effect.

Conclusion: This helps them understand the effects of air pressure and improves their oral motor skills and their understanding of cause and effect.