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DAY 5 : ACTIVITY

SORTING AND PUTTING SOCKS

Activity: Sorting and putting socks correctly in the appropriate feet.

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.

LACING SHOES

Goals: To develop their fine motor skills, eye hand coordination, pincer grasp, pre math skills of patterning and understanding of one to one correspondence.

Material required: Toy Shoes with lace

Vocabulary: Lace, shoe, thread, hole.

Presentation: Place the required material on the table and show them how to lace the shoes by putting the shoe lace through the holes of the shoe. Ask the children to hold the thread using thumb and index finger and ask them to insert the thread through the shoe hole. They can also follow a particular pattern.

Assessment:

What is the use of shoe? If there is no hole will the thread go inside? What is the color of shoe?

Evaluation: Evaluate their skills by repeating the activity and observing the progress.

Skills developed: Fine motor skills, eye hand coordination, pincer grasp, pre math skills of patterning, one to one correspondence.

PICKING OBJECTS USING TOES

Goal: To develop their fine motor skills ,their balancing skills, eye and foot coordination.

Presentation: Place some small objects like beads, feathers, leaves according to the ground.

Ask the children to pick the small objects using their toes.

Skills developed: Fine motor. Eye and foot coordination. Balancing.

HEEL - TOE WALK

Goal: To develop their gross motor skills, balancing skills.

Presentation:

Ask the children to raise their heel and stand on their toes.

They are directed to move on their toes for a given distance.

They can catch their friend by walking on the toes.

Ask the children to raise their toes and stand on their heel and tell them to walk on their heel for given distance.

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

BODY PARTS - I-TRIVIA

  • 1. How many sense organs do we have?
  • 2. Name the sense organs.
  • 3. In how many parts our body is divided?
  • 4. Name the three parts.
  • 5. Which is the most important part of the body?
  • 6. What should we do to keep our teeth clean?
  • 7. Which part works like video camera in our body?
  • 8. What is the eyes transparent layer called?
  • 9. How our eyes perceive any object?
  1. What do we call the person who has not got the sense of vision?
  • 11. What is the hardest substance in your body?
  • 12. How many teeth are there in milk teeth?
  1. Which part of the body can be moved in circular direction?
  • 14. Which organ helps in smelling?
  • 15. What helps the tongue to detect different tastes?
  • 16. Where are the teeth located?
  • 17. Which part of the body has no sweat glands?
  • 18. What prevents the air from dust when you breathe?
  • 19. Which organs help in hearing?
  • 20. The hairs at the rim of the eyelids are called as?
  • 21. How many nostrils do we have?
  • 22. Name the 3 types of teeth.
  • 23. Do our nails grow when we cut them?
  • 24. While sneezing whv should we cover our nose?
  • 25. What is produced when we rub our palms?
  1. Which part of the body helps to count the months having 30 and 31 days?
  1. What part of your body is almost as big as if you are an adult?
  1. What detects the four main tastes sweet, salt, sour and bitter in your tongue?
  • 29. Which parts of the body are more sensitive to heat?
  • 30. Which organ helps in feeling things?
  • 31. What is the purpose of the ear wax?
  • 32. Why is our tongue flexible?
  • 33. How is the eye protected?
  • 34. Why do we have skin?
  • 35. Why do our fingers go wrinkly in the bath?
  • 36. Why do we need hair cut?
  • 37. What are teeth for?
  • 38. Do teeth fall out?
  • 39. Carrots helps us see better why?
  • 40. What is our nose for?
  • 41. What is our belly button or navel?
  • 42. Why do we have ears?
  • 43. From where do we get tears?
  • 44. From where do we get saliva?
  • 45. Which grows again when cut other than hair?
  • 46. Which part of our body can be folded?
  • 47. Which sense organ doesn't have any bone?
  • 48. Which is the largest organ of our body?
  • 49. What are the 5 senses of our body?