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This activity teaches young children fine motor skills by having them use a spoon to move beans from one bowl to another. The child learns to correctly hold and manipulate the spoon. It helps develop eye-hand coordination. Assessment focuses on observing how well the child follows steps and uses the spoon. The activity can be adapted based on the child's development level and different objects can be used to vary the challenge.
Learning task
- 1. ECED 4080 Creating Materials for Use by Young Children :Learning Task :Subject Strands .Spooning beans .Fine motor skills :Description :Subject Topic The child uses a spoon to .Spooning move the beans from one bowl to another. :Background Information Learning task adapted Fine-motor skills involves :from the ability to control the Child Care Center, Sultan small muscles of the body .Qaboos University and is usually defined as the ability to coordinate the action of the eyes and :Age group hands together in .years 3-5 performing precise manipulative movements (eye-hand coordination). The early forerunners of fine-motor control appear to be the reflex grasp and
- 2. avoidance reactions that this activity provides the- become integrated and opportunity for the child to refined with increasing age move the beans and put .them on the next bowl .and experience Prerequisite Concepts, Student Learning :skills, Values :Outcomes follows class routines- for selecting, using Tool Society Uses: and returning Manipulate, identify and individual learning describe different tools that .tasks society uses which is .spoon Being able to hold the- adopts class routines for- spoon correctly and obtaining teacher support to demonstrate learning use it to move to tasks and to obtain .beans .assistance Student Characteristics :Accommodated Learning Theory and this activity is- :instructional Strategies developmentally appropriate and can this activity meets the- be adapted to the child needs of practicing child development .the fine motor skills .level this activity prepares the- children for later academic skills such as: drawing and
- 3. writing (holding pencil and :Checklist of Tray Items crayon) and it will strength Two bowls red and blue- the fine motor skills of the .((one is full with beans .child .Spoon- As Montessori said- children learn best by :Preparation doing, and this activity bring two similar bowls in- provide a real learning different colors and put .experience for them amount of beans on one of Introduction of the learning .them :Task .bring spoon- show the child the location- .keep the materials on tray- .of the activity in the shelf :Extension activities tell the child the name of- the activity "Spooning Provide a small spoon and- ."beans places one bean in each .section of the ice cube tray take the learning task to- .an open space at a table -ask the child to move the beans ‘two at a time’ Demonstrate how to move- between the red and blue the beans from the bowl to bowls. the other one using the .spoon - ask the child to use the allow the child to take- right hand to move the over and move the beans beans to the left and the left .using spoon hand to move the beans to the right. show the child how to tidy- .up the activity :Enrichment Activities
- 4. Use different kinds of- spoons and objects such as: :Feedback Suggestion cotton ball, beads, and peas that will changes the level please use the spoon to- of activity and add more move the beans from one .fun .bowl to the other hold the spoon so that the - .bean does not fall off :Assessment Techniques make sure that there are- observing the children- no beans on the tray while they're doing the .between the two bowls .activity Can you move the beans- note that the child follows- with one hand placed the correct steps to do the ?behind your back .activity :Evaluation rubric -Which of your two hands needs more practice in avoids hand utensils;- moving the beans? attempts to use hand .utensil inappropriately successfully begins to use- :Vocabulary the spoon 2 to 3 times .Spoon .appropriately bowl successfully uses the- spoon 4 to 6 times .Beans .appropriately successfully uses the- :References for the Rubric spoon with flexible .manipulations
- 5. Sue Hathway, Personal and Beans social Development (Social Studies) Rubric, Child Care Centre, Sultan Qaboos .University :Key Words .Spooning spoon Beans :Materials needed Two bowls