Theme: Fall Harvest
Purpose: We have set up a series of gross motor tasks for the children - simulating a country orchard for playing in fall leaves and picking apples. The tasks will help them to develop body awareness, motor planning, bilateral coordination, strength, sequencing, and eye-hand coordination. In addition, it provides opportunities for sensory input (tactile, vestibular and proprioception) and a sense of accomplishment.
Tasks:
1. Crawl through a tunnel and find an apple.
2. Climb the "tree" (stairs) and reach and put the apple back on the tree.
3. Slide down the "tree" into the pile of leaves.
4. Picking apples and tossing them into the basket.
Fine Motor:Purpose: We have set up a series of gross motor tasks for the children - simulating a country orchard for playing in fall leaves and picking apples. The tasks will help them to develop body awareness, motor planning, bilateral coordination, strength, sequencing, and eye-hand coordination. In addition, it provides opportunities for sensory input (tactile, vestibular and proprioception) and a sense of accomplishment.
Tasks:
1. Crawl through a tunnel and find an apple.
2. Climb the "tree" (stairs) and reach and put the apple back on the tree.
3. Slide down the "tree" into the pile of leaves.
4. Picking apples and tossing them into the basket.
This week's activity was to make a tree and paint with chocolate pudding. The overall focus of this activity was to promote finger strengthening and to work with tactile input through finger painting with pudding.
Some of the kids worked with tweezers to encourage muscle strengthening and finger control. The objective was to pick up the leaves (but only with the tweezers) and decorate the trees with the leaves that they picked up.
Other children ripped the paper ( to promote two handed skills and finger strengthening) and pasted the pieces on as the leaves.
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