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Shapes and Colors

DAY 5: ACTIVITY

ADDING COLOR TO RICE AND SORTING

Activity: To sort rice according to their color.

Goals: To improve their: Cognitive skills, Fine motor skills, Eye hand coordination

Vocabulary: Rice, color, sorting

Material required: Rice, different colors.

Presentation: Have all the materials ready for the activity. Give each child some rice in a plate and make them to sit near the table. Tell them to add color to the rice. Show them how to sort the rice according to their color. Ask them to feel the texture.

Assessment:

  • What is the natural color of rice?
  • What happens when we add color to the rice?
  • Name some different varieties of rice.
  • · Can you count the rice if it is in large quantity?
  • Name the unit we use to measure the rice.

Evaluation: Ask them to name the colors and size of the rice. Ask them the texture. Do we measure or count the rice.

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

COLOR PALLETS

Goals: Familiarize them to sort the color pallets according to intensity

Vocabulary: Visual discrimination, vision, dark shades, light shades.

Material required: Different color pallets with different shades, colored balls, blocks, toys for sorting, colored dots of paper.

Introduction & Presentation

Children can see the various color pallets and arrange them in increasing or color from lighter shades to darker shades with different colored balls, bits of paper they can sort and group according to color, match the same colored objects.

Assessment:

  • Which is your favorite color?
  • · Which organ is used for seeing?
  • · Which bird can see in the dark?
  • · Why we cannot see in the dark?
  • What happens when we close our eyes?

Closing: Ask them to name the different colors, first basic colors and then secondary colors.

Evaluation: Evaluate what all colors they can name, what all the shades they can order.

Variation: Sorting colored noodles, sorting colored balls, colored blocks, colored bits of paper, Sorting colored clips, colored water packets, toffees.

SQUATTING

Goals: To improve their gross motor skills and their hip muscles.

Presentation: Encourage the children to stand in a half seated position and move forward in that position.

Skills developed: Develops their gross motor skills and their hip muscles.

AIR CYCLING

Goal: To develop their gross motor skills and their abdomen muscles.

Presentation: Children are asked to lie down on the ground on their back.

They are demonstrated to lift both their legs and try to pedal their legs in the air.

Skills Developed: It develops their leg muscles (gross motor skills) and abdomen muscles.

BALLOON PLAY

Goal: To develop their whole hand grasp, eye hand coordination, gross motor skills, auditory skills.

Presentation: Children are presented with a balloon each to toss the balloon in the air and to catch it.

Children can stand in a circle and pass the balloon for the music or clap sound stops the person who has the balloon will come in the middle and sign a rhyme.

Skills developed: Develops their gross motor skills, auditory skills, eye hand coordination, whole hand grasp.