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Shapes and Colors

DAY 2: ACTIVITY

BLOW WATER BUBBLES

Goals: To enhance and improve their oral motor muscle power with various activities

Presentation: Demonstrate to them how to blow water bubbles using soap solution (bubble solution) or soap water. Children can blow the bubbles using bubble solution and they can try to catch flying bubbles.

Vocabulary: Blowing, bubbles, flying, air

Material required: Bubble solution, bubble blower.

Assessment

  • · Can you show the action of blowing?
  • · Can we blow heavy items?
  • · Why balloons or bubbles fly in air?
  • · What happen when we blow water bubbles?

Evaluation: Evaluate each child's oral motor strength by asking them to blow the water bubbles.

Skills developed: Oral motor skills, gross motor skills, eye hand coordination.

BUILDING FRIENDS NAMES

Activity: To build friends name using letters or alphabets. Goals: To improve their reading skills and to improve their knowledge about alphabets, eye hand coordination.

Vocabulary: Name, friend, build, block

Material required: Alphabet blocks or alphabet cards.

Introduction and Presentation: Present to children the way to build friends name using alphabets blocks or cards for

T O M Children are provided with examples alphabet blocks.They can build simple words using alphabet blocks or alphabet cards.

Assessment:

  • · How many letters did you use to build your friend's name?
  • What all the letters did you used to build your friend's name?
  • Tell some of your friend's name?

Evaluation: Evaluate them by observing how well they are able to build simple words.

Skills developed: Pre reading skills. Knowledge about alphabets, Eye hand coordination.

Variation: They can build larger number; they try building simple sentences and try to read.

DANCE WITH THE PARTNER

Goals: To develops their social skills and physical skills.

Introduction and Presentation: All children can be dressed up and choose their partner before dancing. While playing the music, they can dance with their partner according to the music.

Skills developed: Social skills, Physical skills.

DOG AND BONE

Goal: To stimulate their observing skills, auditory skills, receptive language skills.

Presentation: Children are divided into two groups with equal members. They are numbered as 1-1, 2-2, 3-3 in both teams. When any number is been called (say for example-3) child numbered 3 from both the team with come and pick the object. Whoever picks the object that team will get points.

Skills developed: This game develops their auditory skills, attention, gross motor skills, receptive language skills and observing skills

COLLAGE WITH PENCIL SCRAP

Material required: Uncolored art sheet or plain sheet, pencil scrap, glue, different colors of paint, brush.

Procedure: Children can do the collage (sticking) work with pencil scrap on the art with glue. They can also paint it with different colors.

Skills developed: Develops their fine motor skills, eye hand coordination and texture skills.

MAKING FINGER PUPPETS

Material required: Plain sheet, fevicol, sketch pens, poster colors or water colors, safety scissors.

Preparation: Mix and paint the A4 sheet with pink color on one side and fluorescent yellow on other side.

Procedure:

Step: 1:- Roll the paper into your finger size (keep pink color inside and roll it).

Step: 2:- cut the rolled paper up to half like strips and then bend it. Draw a smiley face or any emotions. Similarly repeat the process to get one more face.

Variation: We can use cone shape instead of cylindrical.

Goals: To improve their fine motor skills, eye hand coordination.

Vocabulary: Wrap, pack, gift

Material required: Color paper, small objects, cello tape, and cardboard box sketch pen.

Introduction and Presentation: Show them how to pack gift items. First make them inside the cardboard box, tell them to close the cardboard box and then to wrap the cardboard box with color paper or gift wrapper; they can put cello tape wherever required. Then to write their names using sketch pen on the packed gift item.

Assessment:

  • · Can we see the objects which are wrapped?
  • With what can you wrap things?
  • Can you name the objects?

Name the occasions that we give gift to our friends.

Closing: Tell them to wrap the objects. Talk about how we wrap gifts using different items.

Evaluation: Evaluate each child's ability to wrap and the coordination involved in the activity, and their creativity,

MATCHING SIGHT WORDS

Goals: To develop their pre reading skills, visual tracking skills, eye hand coordination.

Vocabulary: Highlight, sight words (a, in, the, this, where).

Material required: Cards with different sight words, Highlighter, news paper

Introduction and Presentation: Keep different sight words cards on the table and ask them to pick the sight words and match it. They can also match and highlight the sight words on the newspaper with highlighter.

Evaluation: Evaluate their knowledge of understanding sight word they hight word they highlighted.

Skills developed: Visual tracking, Pre- reading, Eye hand coordination.

Variation: Provide a news paper cutting; give the children to identify sight words with highlighter.

DO ACTIONS WITH THE PARTNER

Goal: To develop their social skills, coordination and gross motor skills.

Presentation: Children are asked to select their friend as partner and do various action with them holding them, they can do dancing, walking, running, jumping, kneel walking, sit, stand, holding their partner.

Skills developed: Coordination, Gross motor skills, Social skills.

GREEN LIGHT-RED LIGHT

Goals: To develop their observing skills, gross motor skills and receptive language skills.

Presentation: Mentor has to hold two ball and green ball. When mentor shows the green ball the children have to start running and once they see the red ball they have to stop running. Children have to be very alert & they have to stop and start running after seeing the respective balls.

Skills developed: It helps the child to improve the observing skills and be more attentive. Develops their gross motor skills and co-ordination.

Variation: Children can start and stop running listening to the words green light and red light. We can play the same game by using the words stop and go.

Step: 2:- Take the cut out heart shapes and stick together with glue, in the way as it shown below

Step: 3: Now take wool and stick it on each ends so that we can tie and wear it on our wrist (you can plait the wool and stick it)

Variations: Not only heart shape, you can draw any designs and make a friend ship band, instead of oil paper you can also make with a chart paper, so that it will be firm and stiff and last longer. You can make anklet using the same method. Another method: Measure the length of the with wool and you can stick the heart shape on the wool also.

COLOR PENCIL COLORING

Material required: Color pencils of various colors, uncolored picture.

Procedure: Children can select the color pencils of the picture and color the picture . Encourage the children to color mostly inside the picture holding the pencil firmly.

Skills developed: Tripod grasp, eye hand coordination, prewriting skills.

Goals: To improve their fine motor skills, eye hand coordination, sustaining attention.

Vocabulary: Twigs, knot, bow, bundle.

Material required: Twigs, wool

Introduction and presentation: Make each child sit at the table and keep the materials ready. To present the activity take the twigs together, holding the twigs in one hand, take a piece of wool and tie it around the twigs together like a bundle and then make a bow. After tying the kids and how it looks.

Assessment: ●How do the twigs look after tying? ● Why do we tie?

Closing: Make the children do the activity and tell them how we can tie other things and what for we tie.

Evaluation: Evaluate each child's ability, whether they are able to tie a knot and bow,

Skills developed: Fine motor skills, eye hand coordination.

measuring water

Goals: To improve their cognitive skills of comparing, sustaining attention, language skills.

Vocabulary: Quantity, measuring, more, less, equal

Material required: Water, measuring glass, glass

Introduction and presentation: To present the activity keep the materials ready. Take water in a measuring glass and show them the level of water and pour it in a glass. Take another level of water in the measuring glass and pour it in another glass. Show them the water kept in different glasses and ask the child which is more/ less/ or whether it is equal.

Assessment:

  • How can we measure water level?
  • · Can we count water?
  • · What is the color of water?

Closing: Make the children to do the activity. Explain them that the level of the size of the vessel differs and it takes the shape of the container.

Skills developed: Cognitive skills of comparing, measuring and language skills.

I SENT A LETTER

Goal: To stimulate their alertness, auditory skills, social skill of participating in group play.

Presentation: Children are asked to sit in a circle. One person will be walking around the circle for the song. When he/she hears drop it they can drop the object to one of them in the circle.

The person who has the object should run and catch the person who dropped the object to him/her. The runner can sit in catchers place. The catcher now can pass the object to another person. Like that each one in the circle will get turn to be the catcher at the end of the game.

Skills developed: This game improves their alerthess, auditory skills, social skill of participating in group play.

Song:

I sent a letter, to my father On the way, I dropped it Post man came and, picked it up And put it, in his pocket.

RIBBON DANCE

Goal: To develop their gross motor skills, Follow direction, social and emotional skills, memory skills.

Presentation:

Motivate all the children to hold the colored ribbons in their hands.

Direct them to do simple hand movements like up, down, right side,

Make them to shake their both hands holding the ribbons.

Make them to shake hands and also jump simultaneously.

Direct them to hold each other and dance with ribbons.

Make the children do different steps with music and song holding the ribbon.

They can follow some rhythm and pattern and dance.

Skills developed: Develops their gross motor skills and direction skills of following the rhythm and pattern.

DAY 5: ART

WRITE A LETTER TO FRIEND

Goal: To develop their pre writing skills, language skills, social/ emotional skills.

Material needed: Plain sheet, pencil or sketch pen or crayon or color pencil.

Presentation: Invite children to sit in a circle and give each child a plain sheet and pencil or solor pencil. Ask the children to write or draw a letter to their friends. Ask them to fold I t and post it in to a toy post box. Explain them the importance of letters and stamps required for envelop or post card.

Skills developed: Develops their pre writing skills, language skills, social/ emotional skills.

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.