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Shapes and Colors

ACTIVITY

SORTING GRAINS BY COLOR AND SHAPES

Goals: To improve their fine motor skills, pre math skills of patterning, arranging objects in a series.

Vocabulary: Grains, shapes, small/ medium/ large, Colors, Pattern, Matching, Pairs

Material required: Different types of grains, bowl, and plate.

Presentation: Make all the materials ready for the activity. Give each child a bowl which contains variety of grains. First show them how to sort the grains by color and shapes. Make them to sort grains according to the color and shape and tell them to keep it separately in the plate.

Assessment:

Which group has the large number of grains? Which group has the small number of grains? Can we count the grains when it is in large quantity? How many different types of grains did you separated? Name the unit which we use for measuring grains

Evaluation: Evaluate each child's ability to arrange grains according to their shapes and colors, patterning, grouping and naming the shapes and color.

Skills developed: Pre-math skills, Patterning, Grouping, Sorting, Ordering, Language skills, Fine motor skills

TASTE MATCHING

Goals: Familiarize them with different tastes, ability to differentiate and identify the different tastes. To make them aware of gustatory discrimination

Vocabulary - Taste, taste buds, gustatory sensation, bitter, sweet, sour, salty, spicy

Material needed: Different products with variety of tastes like mustard seed powder, asafoetida, amchur powder, turmeric powder, dry neem powder, salt, sugar, Tamarind powder, all kept in non - transparent boxes.

Procedure: children are asked to keep the stencil in the have to dip the toothbrush in the paint and hold the tooth appropriate place on the art sheet or the plain sheet. They brush upside down with one hand, above the art sheet and move the bristles of the tooth brush with other hand on the comb held in the other hand. Children are asked to observe that the paint is sprayed by this movement in the paper. Now

Skills developed: fine motor skills, eye hand coordination, they can take the stencil and observe the design.

cognitive skills of observing cause and effect.

Presentation: Give them the different powders to taste and ask them to name the taste. Ask them to match the same tastes when the same items are given.

Assessment:

  • · Which organ is used for tasting?
  • · Which is your favorite taste?
  • · Which fruit tastes sour?
  • · Do you like bitter taste?
  • Can we eat something that is too spicy?
  • Can we eat something that is too salty?
  • · What is the taste of ice cream?
  • Can we enjoy a food which is not having any taste?
  • · What is the taste of the water?

Variation: Introduce new taste with variety of objects. Reinforce the tastes whenever they eat. Ask them to identify the opposite tastes like sweet, bitter.

Evaluation: First do the activities with eyes open and then with eyes closed, note down how many taste each one identified, matched and named. What all open ended questions they answered. Keep the record to note down the progress when the activity is repeated again. Ask them about the different taste of their lunch and snacks.

Conclusion: Analyze how many different tastes they can identify, match, and name.

TUG OF WAR

Goals: To stimulate their gross motor skills, whole hand grasp, social skills, auditory skills.

Presentation: Motivate the children and group them as two A and B Offer them a long ribbon or cloth to hold on either ends. Ask Group A to hold one end of the ribbon or cloth and Group B to hold the other end. When they hear the clap sound they should start pulling from each side.

Skills developed: Develops his gross motor skills, whole hand grasp, social skills, auditory skills.

TUMBLING

Goal: To improve their balance, co-ordination, spatial awareness and gross motor skills.

Presentation: Children whoever learning to tumble can use the wedge placed on the safety mats to tumble.

Place mats on all the sides. They can do tumbling on the grass also.

Skills Developed: Develops their spatial awareness, hip muscles, gross motor skills, balance and co-ordination.

Variation: Children can also do tumbling using their hands,

TEXTURE COLORING

Goal: To develop their creativity, fine motor skills of understanding and exploring cause and effect. Material required: Uncolored art sheet related to the theme, sand or rava or salt, poster colors, texture toys (like small tyres etc), Introduction and presentation: Encourage children to sit for the art and present them the ways to do the texture painting. Children can also use texture toys to paint the pictures.

They can observe the painting and touch and feel the texture after the paint has dried.

Skills developed:Develops their creativity, fine motor skills, cognitive skills of understanding cause and effect.

MIRROR ART

Material required: Uncolored art sheet or plain sheet, different poster color.

Procedure: Ask the children to first fold the art sheet and unfold it again, now paint one half of the picture or put few droplets of paint on one half of the picture and fold the paper again and press it nicely and now children are asked to unfold the paper and observe the impression or designs formed on the paper.

Skills developed: Fine motor skills and eye hand coordination, cognitive skills of understanding cause and effect.

FLOAT AND SINK

Goals: To make them understand the concept of float and sink.

Vocabulary - Float, sink, heavy, light.

Material required: Collection of objects (or) substances which float and sink in water, water in a big, wide bowl.

Presentation: Make them understand the concept of float and sink, of various items, Ask them to put few different substances in water and observe the result. Explain and ask them why different items float and sink.

Assessment:

Can a stone float in water? Can a heavy object float in water? Feather will float (or) sink in water? What will happen when you put a stone in water? Will a paper boat float (or) sink in water? Why some objects float and some sink in water?

Skills developed: Logical thinking Observation skills, Understanding cause and effect Pre-math skills , Comparing

Conclusion: These activities help to teach the concepts of float and sink.

WRINGING TOWEL

Goals: To develop their fine motor skills, eye hand coordination, whole hand grasping skills.

Vocabulary: Wringing, towel, water, squeezing, wet, dry.

Material required: Towel, big bowl of water, empty bowl.

Introduction and Presentation: Dip the towel in bowl of water and ask the child to wring the towel in another empty bowl using hand movement in opposite direction. Let each child take turn and do this activity.

Assessment:

What happens when you dip the towel in the water? What comes out when you wring the wet towel? Can we wring the towel with one hand? Can we wring the towel by moving the hands in same direction?

Skills developed: Develops their fine motor skills. Eye hand coordination. Hands working together in opposite action.

FLOOR DRAWING

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

Presentation: Each child is qiven a chalk with holder and asked to trace his friend's body. His/ her friend has to lie on the floor without moving, when he/ she is tracing the body. Friend can trace his/ her body too.

Skills developed: Fine motor skills. Eye hand coordination. Social skills.

YOGA EXERCISE

Material required: Various shapes blocks, stamp pad, holder, plain sheet or art sheet.

Procedure: Children are asked to hold the block firmly and print the block pressed in stamp pad on the paper. Children can name the print after seeing the impression.

Skills developed: Tripod grasp, fine motor skills of understanding cause and effect.

WET CHALK COLORING

Material required: Uncolored art sheet, different color chalks dipped slightly in water with chalk holder.

Procedure: Children are told to hold the chalk holder firmly and color inside the given picture with different colored chalk. Skills developed: Tripod grasp, pre writing skills, eye hand coordination.