Activites. Developing Skills in Early Childhood. Education Essay

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Developing Skills in Early Childhood
Developmental Area 1: __________Gross Motor_____________________
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Learning Objectives

Activities to Support Enrichment

1 The child should be able to enjoy their participation in different physical activities so that they are motivated to do so even on their own.
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2 The child should be able to balance on one leg as a way of developing their physical strength.
3 The child should gain a better control of their movements using the appropriate movement skills.
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4 The child should be able to bend/stretch different parts of the body to form different alphabet letters.

* Introduce activities such as walking, leaping, jumping, hopping and skipping to the children.
* Carry out activities that the child enjoys carrying out. For instance Ivy enjoys drawing, using fingers to draw on the ground.
* Inform the child to imagine there are many sculptures in front of them standing one leg. Ask the child to be one of them by standing on one leg CITATION Kit17 \l 1033 (Kit, Lara, Neda, & Dale, 2017).
* If in a group, ask some of the children to act as the ‘sculptures’ by standing on one leg while other move around them.
* Draw a zig zag/ straight lines/ curved lines on the floor and ask the child to walk along them.
* Give the child a signal when it is time for them to change to another movement.
* Get the child a partner and let them begin forming different capital letters in the alphabet using their body parts. Begin with straight letters e.g K, L, T, then curved letters such as C, S and finally letters involving both such as P, D, G
* If in a group, invite some of the children to inform the rest how they formed the letters.

Developmental Area 2: __________Problem Solving_____________________
Learning Objectives

Activities to Support Enrichment

1 The child should be able to understand that there are different ways/paths of resolving a problem/issue.
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2 The child should be able to develop critical/logical thinking.
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3 Children should be able to understand the importance of taking their time to explore situations/scenarios in different ways.
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4 Children should be able to express their ideas/ ways of thinking in different scenarios/situations.

* Invite the child to respond to a question that has more than one right answer. The questions should be based on the interests/ situations/ environment of the child.
* Narrate a short story to the child maybe involving animals/ people and leave it at a certain point. Ask the child to predict what might happen after th...