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November: Week – 1 Alphabets of the Month: U, V, W, X, Y, Z

Topic: Head, eyes, ears, different hair color, about baldness.

Vocabulary: Head, brain, hair, plaiting, think, baldness long hair, curly hair, short hair.

Material required: Picture book, model of a human body, flash cards, ball sized cotton, plastic dolls having different textured and colored hair.

Presentation:

● Invite the children to sing a song related to body parts. Familiarize them with their body parts using flash cards and model of human body

• · Show them plastic dolls and ask them to compare the texture and color of hair.
• · Tell them about short, long, straight and curly hair, old people's hair will turn grev because of the loss of melanin pioment. Talk about people like to change the color of their by using different products in hair salon and beauty parlors.
• · We are able to see only with our eyes, our eyes are located in front of our skull.
• · Outer protection to the eye is provided by a thin piece of skin called eyelid, the hairs at the eyelds called eye lashes.

● We have a tear gland just above our eyes which produces moisture when we blink and eyeballs with the moistures.

• The ear is a vertebrate organ of hearing responsible for sensing and collecting sounds as well as maintaining the equilibrium.

• Hearing is one of the important senses and ear help us to hear.
• Ear is divided in to three parts- outer ear, middle ear and inner ear.
• · The stapes in the middle ear is the smallest bone in the human body.

· Talk about ear and sense of sound. Bring a rattle or a musical instrument and compare the sounds they make and make a list of all things we can hear. Discuss the importance of the ears.

• · Talk about eyes-sense of sight. Make a list of the things they see. Now ask them to close eyes and ask can they see.
• Discuss the importance of eyes.

Assessment:

• · Can you point to your head?
• · Can you touch and tell how your hair is (e.g. soft, shiny, curly, dry).
• What is the color of your hair?
• · Can we change the color of the hair?
• · Can you tell about the different types of hairs?
• · What is the importance of head?
• What are the different colors of hair?
• · Who has curly hair?
• · Can we change the color of elderly people's hair?
• Where do you go to get your hair cut and styled?
• · Where do you store knowledge?
• · Have you seen someone with no hair?
• · Which is the smallest bone in the body?
• · Which organ helps us in hearing?
• Name the organs which help us to see.
• How many eyes do we have?

Closing: Recollect the subject with the children.

Evaluation: Expressive and receptive language skills- question and answer and knowledge about the topic.

Extension: Children can learn to do plaiting with the wool or false hair.

Topic: Importance of mouth, nose, teeth. Talk about brushing habits. Vocabulary: Mouth, speech, voice, teeth, brushing, jaw, forehead, gargle.

Material required: Flash cards, human body model, good habit chart, mirror.

Presentation:

• · Invite the children to look at themirror. Discuss the body parts like face, teeth, forehead, mouth, ear, tonque, eves,
• Using flash card show face and discuss about face is like a mirror, when we are happy our face glows. Ask them to make faces according to emotions. Ask them about how we keep our faces clean. Discuss about the usage of lotion, cream, talcum powder
• Point to the forehead, mouth, teeth. Discuss in detail about forehead, mouth- it consists of teeth, lips, tongue, etc.
• Talk about teeth how it helps to bite and chew the food. Tongue help us to taste the food, there are different types of taste like sweet, sour, bitter, salty,
• Focus on brushing, we must brush our teeth twice a day, morning and before going to bed. Back and forth, up and down are the directions of brushing the teeth.
• · We must gargle after we finish eating food; it helps the teeth to be free of germs.
• · Show the qood habit chart and discuss each one through gesture.

Assessment:

• How many times do we brush our teeth in a day?
• · What are the directions for brushing our teeth?
• Which organ helps us in tasting?
• · Can you speak without opening your mouth?
• · What is whispering?
• · Why do you close your ear when you hear a loud noise?
• Can you tell any 2 good habits?

Closing: Recollect the subject and explain again if needed. To make them understand about importance of tongue, teeth and practice of good habit.

Evaluation: Expressive and receptive language skills. Pre math skills, gustatory skills (tasting of some sample).

Extension: Dentist and Oral Hygiene Day - Can engage in pretend play having a "dentist" (one child with the help of a mentor) check the children's teeth and have a puppets using a toothbrush and toothpaste and explaining good oral hygiene habits

Topic: Discuss about shoulders, elbow, wrist and fingers.

Vocabulary: Flash cards, books, drawing, grasping, wrist, catching, picking, plucking

Material required: Flash cards, human body model, good habit chart, mirror,

Presentation:

• · Invite the children to sing along head shoulder knees and toes rhyme. Warm up the class by rotating shoulder. Ask them about the body part which moves in circular direction. Show them to point in their body.
• Discuss the importance of shoulder it is like a hanger. It holds the upper part of the body. We use it for movement like bowling, batting, skipping etc.

· Discuss about the importance of elbow. it is a joint, it bends in and out in one direction. It helps in the movement of picking object, lifting things etc.

● Ask the children to lift a block and place it on top of the shelf without folding elbow. Can they do it? If not discuss the importance.

● Have the children sit and start the with a song 'where is thumb king'. Point out each finger what it is called as. Go slow when singing the rhyme.

• Show a simple paper folding and ask which part of hand we use.
• Ask the children to count their fingers tell them there are 10 fingers, thumb, pointer, middle finger.
• Discuss the importance of fingers and how they help us in picking up objects, washing; writing etc. talk about palm, keeping our hands clean by washing them before and after every meal. Usage of soap, wiping it pats dry. Tell about women and girls like to apply henna or mehandi for festivals and weddings.
• · Show and ask them to point wrist watch on it. It's a joint. It can move in circular direction, to and fro. We use for varied purpose while playing cricket, badminton which help us to move.

· Talk about the communication in dancer use mudra to denote each thing. Discuss about dumb charade, usage of gestures like a hand shake or Namaste.

Assessment:

• Where is your shoulder?
• · What is the function of shoulder?
• · Can you do bowling, or play game without the movement of shoulder?
• · Where is the elbow?
• · Can it move in circular direction?
• How it helps us in picking objects?
• What happens if there is a fracture in our hand?
• Can you touch your shoulders?
• · What are the different uses of fingers?
• Name some sports where our fingers are used?
• · Which part of our body do we use for catching things?
• · Where do we tie a watch?
• · Can we hold things without using our hand?
• · Can you name the smallest finger in our hand?
• · In which finger usually people wear a ring?
• · Where do you apply mehandi?

Closing: Recollect the subject and explain again if needed.

Evaluation: Expressive and receptive language skills (question and answer knowledge of topic).

Pre math skills (counting fingers). Fine motor skills (paper folding).

Extension: Children can do free shoulder and elbow exercises, do backward throwing of balls, do over head clapping. Play Simon Says using sign language. Demonstrate different types of gestures.

SY : 4

Topic: Hip, belly button.

Vocabulary: Hip, belly button.

Material required: Flash cards, model of human body, picture book.

Presentation:

• Show the pictures, talk about the hip, waist, waistline.
• Invite the children to join and measure their waist using the measuring tape and note down their waist size. Ask them to compare, discuss about thin and fat people's waist line
• Hips provide support for the body and helps in balancing and walking.
• Show the pictures and point out the hips and belly button
• Make the children to stand in a circle and tell them to move their hip.
• Hip joint is a complex joint of ball and socket type which facilitates movement of our lower limbs.

Assessment:

• What is the function of the hips?
• In what way do the hips help us in walking?
• What is the size of your waist?
• Where do you wear your pant/ skirt?
• Name the type of our hip joint.
• · Which joint facilitates the movement of our lower limbs?

Closing: Recollect the topic about the importance of hip and belly button.

Evaluation: Expressive and receptive language skills. Pre math skills. Cognitive skills.

Vocabulary: Ankle, anklet, heel, shoes, toes, nail paint, heel walking, nail cutter etc.

Material required: Model of human body, baby doll, flash cards, model x-rays.

Presentation:

• Point out ankle, heel, and toes and ask the children to count their toes, heel and ankle.
• · Talk about the importance of the ankle. It is a joint; it helps us in stability and in walking.
• Girls wear anklets on their ankles as decoration.

● Heel and toes are very important, the whole body weight is balanced on our feet i.e. heel and toes. We must keep our heels and toes clean and healthy.

• Protect them by wearing shoes or slippers when we walk.
• · Ask the children to walk on either their toes or heels for a distance. Can they walk for a long time?
• If we can't reach an object which is placed high up, we raise our heel standing on our tiptoes to give us height.
• Talk about nails and clipping the nails once in a week.
• Show the pictures and point out the knees, hips and thighs. Now ask the thighs, make circles on knee using palm, and move the hip.

· Talk about the importance of knee, it's a joint, It bends to and fro, Movement of legs is due to knee joints, We kick walk etc due to the knee.

• · Thigh talk about the importance of the thighs, ask them to tap it, press the thigh and feel it.
• · People wear knee caps in some sports so that it will protect them from getting hurt.
• · Discuss the coordination of knee, hip and thighs helps us in movement.

Assessment:

• Can we see our ankle?
• · How many heels do you have?
• · Can you walk on your toes?
• · Can you pick up objects with toes?
• What do girls/ ladies wear on their ankles?
• · Can you walk if we tie your ankles together?
• · Can you see your knee?
• · Why do people wear knee cap during sports?
• · Can we walk without our knees?
• · Which area in your body has the longest bones?
• · What are some examples of good and healthy foods?
• · What happens when we always eat high calorie fat food?
• What happens when we do not eat food?
• · How do we get energy for the body?

Closing: Review the importance of heel, toe, ankle and locomotion.

Evaluation: Expressive and receptive language skills. Cognitive skills. Gross motor skills.

Extension: Heel to toe race. Ask the children to walk on the foot prints to look like those of various animals. Body bingo cards. Three legged relay race – it is played as a relay game with two partners, and with many players. Each pair gets their two middle feet tied together with a rope or cloth. They can practice walking together and appear to be three legged. When they are all ready, they have to race, working together to walk to the finish line.

BITS OF PAPER COLLAGE

Goals: To develop their fine motor skills, pincer grasp, eye hand coordination, spatial awareness, and tactile skills.

Materials required: - Glue, uncolored art sheet, bits of paper.

Procedure: Keep the required materials ready before starting an activity.

Explain to the children about the art sheet. Encourage them to apply glue inside the picture and ask them to pick the bits of paper and stick with the glue inside the picture.

Skills developed: Fine motor skills, pincer grasp, eye hand coordination, spatial awareness, tactile skills.

CRAYON COLORING

Material required: Crayons of various colors, uncolored picture.

Procedure: Children can select the crayon of their choice related to the picture. Children are encouraged to color mostly inside the picture holding the crayon firmly.

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