LACING STRAWS🔗

Activity: To lace straw using one- one correspondence.

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: Different straws cut in to small pieces, long woolen thread cut equally for all the children.

Vocabulary: String, straws, lacing, pattern etc.

Presentation: Place the required material on the table and distribute it to the children equally. Ask the children to hold the thread in one hand and pick one straw using thumb and index finger and ask them to insert the thread through the straw and string the straws one by one.

They can also follow a particular pattern.

Assessment:

• · What is the shape of the straw?
• How did the thread go through the straw?
• If there is no hole will the thread go inside?
• · How many have you stringed?

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.

PEELING LADIES FINGERS SEEDS

Goals: To improve their pincer grasp, intrinsic muscle control, eye-hand coordination, sensory skills

Content :

Vocabulary: Peeling, ladies finger, seeds, grouping.

Material required: Ladies finger, plates.

Introduction and presentation: Demonstrate how to peel the ladies finger using thumb and index finger.

Demonstrate them how to remove the seeds from the lady finger. Tell them to count the seeds and group it according to the numbers.

Assessment:

• Ask them about the texture of ladies finger.
• What is the color of ladies finger?
• · What is the color of seeds of ladies finger?
• Can we count the seeds of ladies finger?
• Count the seeds that you have grouped.

Closing: Ask the children about the uses of ladies finger and ask them how we can grow ladies finger in our house.

Evaluation: Evaluate each child's ability to peel ladies finger.

Skills developed: Pincer grasp, eye hand coordination, tactile skill and sensory skill.

Variation: They can peel peas, hay straw, banana, orange.

JOGGING

Goals: To improve their gross motor skills, balancing and spatial awareness.

Presentation: Encourage the children to stand in one place or if possible draw a circle and make them stand inside it. Tell the children to run standing inside the circle or in the same place.

Skills developed: Develops gross motor skills and spatial awareness.

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 do forward and backward skipping.

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

HIT THE TARGET

Goal: To develop their eye hand coordination, fine motor skills, gross motor skills.

Presentation: Ask the children to hold the ball firmly with one or both hands and toss the ball on the target. Encourage them to toss it correctly on the target.

Skills developed: Eye hand coordination, fine motor skills and gross motor skills.