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Activities
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| Play Activities |
Materials |
| Walking, hopping, skipping |
Skipping ropes |
| Sand Play |
Sand, tray, box or pit and small cups toys etc. |
| Constructional Play |
Building blocks. |
| Doll House Play |
Doll House Materials |
| Clay or plasticine modelling |
Clay, dough orplasticine |
| Drawing (on paper or board) |
Blackboard and chalk, paper and pencil |
| Bead stronging |
Beads and string. |
| Water play |
Small tub for water play with floating toys. |
| Hammerdling |
Hammering nails and pieces of wood. |
| Looking at pictures |
Picture books and scrap books |
| Gardening |
Tools for digging earth for gardening |
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Practical Life Activities
Activities suited to local circumstances, patterns, living habits, economic level and needs may be taken up. The following list is illustrative.
- Physical hygiene (such as brushing teeth, washing clothes and combing hair).
- Cleanliness order and upkeep beauty of the environment (such as folding clothes, sweeping, dusting, polishing, arranging flowers, making garlands, decorating the room and cleaning utensils).
- Personality ( attention to walking gait, sitting gracefully, body posture and etiquette on all occasions ).
- Good manners and social behavior (such as greeting people, correct ways of serving and handling food showing people around, helping visitors etc.,)
Activities for Fine-Motor Development
- Pouring liquids
- Chopping vegetables and fruits
- Peeling potatoes
- Arranging flowers in a pot or vase
- Folding clothes
- Putting things in order
Activities for Language Development
Conversation
- Among children.
- Among other teachers and children.
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| Activities |
Materials |
| Story Telling |
Story Books |
| Dramatics |
Story Books |
| Puppetry |
Puppet theatre, puppets, etc., |
| Listening to recorded programmes
(songs, stories, dramas, etc.,)
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Tapes, gramophone or tape-recorder. |
| Viewing films and filmstrips |
Filmstrip, films and projectors. |
| Excursions and visits to museums,
zoos, exhibitions, etc. |
Cards, picture-book, scrap-book, charts,
and display boards. |
| Reading-readiness and reading |
Alphabetical letters or cards, vocabulary cards, reading materials). |
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Activities for Development of Mathematical Concepts.
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| Activities |
Materials |
| Naming Units of Quantities |
Numerical Rods. |
| Recognising numerical symbols |
Wooden or plastic numerical symbols, sand paper or written symbols on cards. |
| Associating symbols with quantities by means of cards. |
Objects and cards. |
| Knowing odd and even numbers. |
Symbols as objects or cards. |
| Naming and recognising coins |
Coins of different denominations |
| Knowing names of geometrical shapes and recognising them. |
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| Knowing different measures (kilo 500 grams, 250 grams,
100 grams, 50 grams, litre, meter, hours).
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| Names of days and months |
Calendar |
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Activities involving Science Concepts.
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| Concepts |
Materials |
| Bulk |
Building block |
| Weight |
Object with same size but different weights, stones and metal pieces. |
| Forms and shapes |
Regular and irregular solid and plane forms, stones and clay. |
| Colours and shades |
Pairs of coloured things, colour boxes. |
| Touch |
Different types of cloth, sand and paper |
| Temperature |
Hot and cold water, food, thermic sense material. |
| Porosity |
Earthen pots, blotting paper sponge, pouring water on dry earth. |
| Compressibility |
Rubber toys. |
| Expandability |
Heated liquid |
| Elasticity |
Rubber bands, elastic |
| Malleability |
Clay, Plasticine |
| Gravity |
Balls |
| Chemical changes |
Wet cement, sugar and water and rusted iron. |
| Gases and liquids |
Water floating and non-floating toys and gas balloons |
| Plant life |
Plants or a garden |
| Animal life |
Animal or pet house |
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