Sensory scienceToddlersSensory massMaterials: oats, water, plastic containerObjectives: Babies use their senses to learn about the world around them. Babies will begin to stimulate the sense of touch.Strategies: Encourage infants and toddlers to touch the texture by manipulating the texture using repetitive words such as squeezing, throwing, and crushing.Fine motorToddlersActivity: Pom Pom DropMaterials: pompoms or cotton balls, paper towels, paper toilet tubesObjectives: To promote the development of fine motor skills and simple eye-hand coordination.Strategies: Tape the paper tubes on the walls, handle the kids bowl full of pompoms or cotton balls and show them they can put it through the tubes and watch it fall on the floorLanguageYoung infantsActivities: Peek a booObjectives: Despite their young age, babies will acquire language skills through interaction.Strategies: Talk to them by looking them in the eyes, using short and simple words, sing and read to babies.Emotional skillsYoung infantsActivities: Allows you to share a story.Materials.
Books with drawings and light colorsObjectives: Although infants at this age do not care what you are reading, you must always read to themStrategies: Lay infants flat on a smooth surface. Read them out loud using a very soft voice.Gross MotorMobile infantsActivities: Little explorers.
Materials: pillows, blankets, playmat tunnels, toys.Objectives: Infants will explore the different objects that surrounds them and work on their body muscles such as legs and arms.Strategies: Encourage babies to crawl through tunnels, climb on the blocks, find their favorite toys to stimulate their crawling, sit up, to get up holding onto something.
Provide activities that support gross motor skills.Fine motorMobile infantsActivity: Ball gameMaterials. Balls of different sizes and colors.Objectives: Stimulate infants with balls. The babies were playing with the balls or wanting to chew them.
Strategies: Get on the floor with the infants, roll throw the ball towards them to develop the coordination of hands and eyes and reinforce social activities.MathematicsActivities: Printable activity of the apple number: 4-5 years.Materials: Set of printable apple cards and small pompoms.Objectives: Match the quantities of apples with the number printed on the cardStrategies: I will call out a number and the children will take enough pompoms to match the number on the apple card.Social SkillsActivities: Musical hugs: 4-5 yearsMaterials: musical instrumentsObjectives: Enrich social relationships and interaction between classmatesStrategies: Play the instruments and dance. When the music stops, the children embrace a person. The music continues and the children dance again. The music stops having to hug three people.
We will continue doing the same thing until everyone is embraced.MathematicsActivities: Printable activity of the apple number: 4-5 years.Materials: Set of printable apple cards and small pompoms.Objectives: Match the quantities of apples with the number printed on the cardStrategies: I will call out a number and the children will take enough pompoms to match the number on the apple card.Social SkillsActivities: Musical hugs: 4-5 yearsMaterials: musical instrumentsObjectives: Enrich social relationships and interaction between classmatesStrategies: Play the instruments and dance. When the music stops, the children embrace a person. The music continues and the children dance again.
The music stops having to hug three people. We will continue doing the same thing until everyone is embraced.
