Question

(please write a total of 10 different activities): For infant or toddler.

Assignment:
Each domain of the curriculum must be available in each day’s activity plan though no specific time frame would be indicated for infants; a loosely woven time frame may be offered for toddlers.

For each activity, provide the following information:

1. name of activity

2. curriculum domain--(one of the below) use differnet domain for every other activity.

physical, fine motor

physical, gross motor

psychosocial

cognitive

language

3. developmental goal of activity--what you hope the infants/toddlers will learn from the activity; this must be related to the domain of the activity

4. procedure planned to work toward attaining the goal (how the activity will be set up and what the infant or toddler will do during the activity)

5. materials needed

An Example of How each Activity should be done. (see below)

Monday

1. Scribble Table

2. Physical--fine motor

3. Goal: To practice fine motor skills by scribbling on butcher paper

4. Procedure: Butcher paper will be taped to the surface of a small table. Several markers will be placed on the table. Toddlers will scribble on the paper with the markers.

5. Materials: Butcher paper, tape, markers

Answer 1

Activities for : Toddlers

• Monday :

1. Necklace making

?2. Physical- fine motor

3. Goal: To practice fine motor skills by putting beads in a string and tying the ends of the strings.

4. Procedure: The toddlers will be given strings and a selection of big colourful beads from which they can choose from to put on their strings, and then will be instructed to tie the ends of the string by a simple knot to form a necklace.

5. Materials: Strings like shoestrings, big colourful beads.

• Tuesday:

1. Red Light - Green Light

2. Physical- gross motor

3. Goal: To practice gross motor skills by walking/running.

4. Procedure:

a) Have the toddlers line up (side by side) at one end, facing you.

b) Stand opposite to the toddlers and face towards them.

c) When you shout “Green Light!” the toddlers walk quickly or run (depending on the space we have) towards you.

d) When you shout “Red Light!” the toddlers stop where they are.

e) Continue to shout “red light or green light” until the toddlers get to you and then all the toddlers go back to the starting line and the game starts again.

5. Materials: Big open space or ground for walking/running.

• Wednesday:

?1.Practice the Alphabets

2.Cognitive

3.Goal: To practice cognitive skills by helping the toddler identify letters by singing along to the “Alphabet Song”.

4. Procedure: Sing along the "Alphabet Song" - "A,B,C,D,..." and encourage the toddlers to sing along as well and ask them to recall the song by themselves and help them at times by providing cues to encourage them to continue the sing the song by themselves.

5. Materials required: A cozy room for the toddlers to sing aloud.

• Thursday:

1. Shopping Shopping

2. Psychosocial

3. Goal: To practice psychosocial skills by encouraging the toddlers to re-enact and recreate their experience at the grocery store with their peers where they role play and follow a social script of entering of entering the store, greeting the cashier, paying politely and exiting the store. Additionally, these reenactments also require the toddlers to negotiate, communicate and take turns regarding each other's roles and responsibilities. For example, deciding who gets to be the cashier and who gets to be the shopper, and then switching with each other, or allowing other children to contribute to the game as well.

4. Procedure: Setting up a cardboard window box to make a dummy store for the role play, dummy items given the the toddler who chooses to be the store keeper (to be kept for dummy sale at the dummy store), dummy cardboard cash cutouts handed out to the toddlers who choose to be the customer to facilitate the role play smoothly, and then leaving the kids alone so that they can freely interact and play.

5. Materials: Cardboard for making dummy store, dummy cash, and for dummy items to be "sold"

• Friday:?

1. Story Boxes

2. Language

3. Goal: To practice language skills by presenting boxes to each toddler, where each box has a set of different objects, based on which the toddler has to tell a story which comes to their mind, and so they speak out their minds, which will help them to develop their languag skills along with their cognitive skills.

4. Procedure: Give each child a box with different objects in each, instruct them to come up with stories that they can think of and imagine of by looking at the different objects they recieve in their boxes. Ask them to recite them out loud and tell their story to everybody.

5. Materials: Tin boxes, objects that go in the tin boxes like shells, beads, dolls, toys, cars, etc.

• Saturday:

1. Cardboard Creations

2. Physical- fine motor

3. Goal: To practice fine motor skills by giving carboards to toddlers so that they can cut them out or fold them to make different objects.

4. Procedure: Hand out the toddlers carboard pieces and ask them to make any shape or object they want and get creative.

5. Materials: Carboard pieces.

• Sunday:

1. Get out balloons

2. Physical- gross motor

3. Goal: To practice gross motor skills by playing with balloons, which tend to move and bounce a lot, which gives the toddlers the oppurtunity to move around a lot as well.

4. Procedure: Play balloon badminton with the toddlers, or just bounce them around and have a ball!

5. Materials: Balloons, and an open area to play with the balloons.