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01 Notes
Appropriate Activities for Three to Five Year-Olds
Language and Reading
● Read ___storybooks______________ with children---both individual and group
● Use draw and tell (“___chalk talk___________”) and skywriting
● Play __Audio tapes_____________ and _____video tapes____________ with stories
● Use __puppets___________, object lessons, and various types of story ____props_____
● Use flip chart, flannel board, and magnetic board ways of __sharing_________ stories
● Provide time to practice ___scibbling_________ and ____writing__________
Math
●Provide activities to teach ___color_______, ___shape_______, and ___number_________ concepts
●Use ___sorting__________, _____matching________, and search activities
●Use charts
●Use a ___textures___________ box or bag
●Incorporate ___counting___________ in activities
●Plan activities to teach ___size____, space, volume, __time_____, and temperature concepts
Science
●Look for _nature____________ samples around which to build an activity
●Plan simple ____experiments___________, as with food and water
●Let children play with science __materials__________ and ___equipment____________
●Set up a science __table______ and change what’s displayed there frequently
●Help children learn to use their __senses_______ to explain their environment
●Plan activities for understanding their ___bodies______
●Plan activities involving ___gardening_________, ___air___, ___magnets______, wheels, and
__animals________
●Plan ___field______ ___trips_____
Social Studies
●Use ___thems____ related to social studies concepts
●Focus on similarities among ____people_____ since children naturally notice differences more easily
●Promote positive thinking about ___positive______ people
●Use concepts of ___govenrments_________, such as voting on things that can be left up to the children
●Teach children how to ___nature__________ others by having them care for plants
●Take a nature walk to observe ____changes_______ in nature to help them learn adaptability to change
●Use ___readiness________ activities to prepare children to learn to read _____maps__
●Use __show-and-tell_______________ to prepare children to be interested in current events
Art
●Use a variety of ___Painting activities__________ activities---e.g., easel, finger, string, texture, and chalk
painting
●Use activities to help children learn basic forms and shapes
●Allow children to __draw_____ and comment on their movements as they draw
●Avoid limiting children’s art to ____coloring________ __books_______
●Allow children to play with __modeling __________ materials
●Have children build structures with ___blocks______
●Have children use a variety of materials to build ___collages________
Music and Movement
●Promote interest in musical __instruments__________
●Choose ___songs______ carefully
●Create __new______ words for well-known song tunes
●Use the __phrase________ method for teaching words of songs
●Have children use ____rhythm______ instruments
●Use ___fingerplay_____________ and chants
●Do __percussion_______ percussion activities
●Provide activities for time, space, and weight ____awareness_____________
●Use ___dancing_________, word games, pantomime, and pretending