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01 Notes
Appropriate Activities for Three to Five Year-Olds
Language and Reading
● Read _storybookds_ with children---both individual and group
● Use draw and tell (“_chalktalk_”) and skywriting
● Play _audiotapes_ and _videotapes_ with stories
● Use _puppets__, object lessons, and various types of story _story props_
● Use flip chart, flannel board, and magnetic board ways of _sharing_ stories
● Provide time to practice __scribbling_ 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 _experimens_, as with food and water
●Let children play with science _materials_ and _equipments__
●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_, __magnents_, wheels, and _animals_
●Plan _field_ __trips__
Social Studies
●Use _themes_ related to social studies concepts
●Focus on similarities among __people_ since children naturally notice differences more easily
●Promote positive thinking about _older_ people
●Use concepts of _government_, such as voting on things that can be left up to the children
●Teach children how to _nurture_ 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 _paintinh_ 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 _coloting_ _books_
●Allow children to play with _molding_ 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 _fingerplays_ and chants
●Do _body_ percussion activities
●Provide activities for time, space, and weight __awarness__
●Use _dancing_, word games, pantomime, and pretending