Monday, May 16, 2011

Personal and Social Development

Bean Bags

The child is going to play with the bean bag in the gym room or in the playground that is available in the school. The teacher role is to guide the child how to hold the bean bag and the possible ways that he/she can play with. Some ways are: putting it on the hand/'s back, feet, shoulder, head, or arm and walk without falling off. Other ways are to throw the bean bag up in the air and catch it with both hands or throwing it to a peer to catch it.  Children might suggest other ways, just ask them to think out of new ways.

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Body Parts Puzzle

Students work independently to put the body parts in their right places on a felt board. Cutouts from “felt” material are used to stick directly on the board that is covered with same material. The student rearranges the parts until he can put each part in the correct place in relation to the other parts. While there are eleven pieces, students can begin with some, while others are already placed on the board correctly.


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Clothespins on a Box

Children squeeze the clothespins from the cup and clip them to the sides of the box using two fingers to hold the clothespins. They will match the colors on the clothespins to the colors on the box to make the activity more interesting. This activity will enhance children's fine motor skills and help them to gain more control of their muscles.
Squeezing and clipping the clothespins depends on each child's level. The teacher could start with two clothespins and she could add more according to the child's progress on this activity.
This activity will help children to strengthen their hand coordination and their handwriting later on. 
  
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Spooning  beans.

The child uses a spoon to move the beans from one bowl to another.

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Language Learning Tasks

Play dough letters sounds
Focus letter would be made out of modeling clay (preferably one that hardens).  The children would feel the letters and find the pictures that begin with the letter sounds.  After, the letters would be placed in a container.  One child is blindfolded and the other child chooses a letter to give to that child.  They must guess what letter they are feeling.  After, the roles are reversed.

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This activity is done between two children, one of which has pictures of farm animals with their names.  The second child has the same pictures of farm animal, but without their names.
The first child read the name of an animal, and asks second child to pass him the picture of the animal that match with name. Then second child ask first one if the picture is right or not.

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Finger Puppets, Retelling Stories

Students use finger puppets to represent different characters in a story.  Finger puppets can also be used as the narrator who tells the story.  The child moves the finger puppet to role-play the actions of specific characters.  Children who are reluctant to speak in front of others will often use their voice to deliver lines because it is actually the story character that is speaking and not themselves. 

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Play Dough Snake Letters

Students roll play dough ‘snakes’ between their fingers.  Sections of these snakes are then formed into upper and lower case matching letters.  A different colour is used to make the upper case letters than is used for the lower case letters.  Letters are displayed side by side on a tray.  Laminated models of the upper and lower case letters can be provided for the students.

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Sandpaper Letters
Students move their fingertips over the sandpaper letters and numerals to ‘get a feel’ of them.  Single letters and numerals can be used as standalone cards to start with.  Later combinations of numerals or letters can be used to practice specific number or phonetic skills.

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Real & Imaginary – Match


Students work independently trying to decide whether an image a card represents a real or imaginary thing.  Laminated cards with pictures of animals, people, and inanimate objects are used. There is matching picture of a real thing for each imaginary thing.  A header card provides both the heading in either Arabic or English and a sample picture of an imaginary duck and a real duck. The student browses through the cards until a match of a real and an imaginary thing are found.  The matching pair is then placed beside each other under the appropriate heading. The activity can be used either on a table or on the floor.  While there are eighteen matching things a subset of these can be used for students beginning this activity.

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Short phonics if the letters

After children learned the letter formation; they start to read the letters. This activity helps child to know the correct pronounce of the words. With this activity there are objects that have different pronounced for the same letter. Therefore; child will take the object or picture and will put it in the correct place and will pronounce the phonic of the letter.

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Children would express verbally about their feelings.

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Sunday, May 15, 2011

Creating Materials for Use by Young Children

Manipulative materials help young learners with concept formation, growth of thinking skills, and small muscle development

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