Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Monster Mash

Gross Motor
This is the Motor Room Plan for the next two weeks October 20th through October 31st.

Theme: Monster Mash
Purpose: We have set up a series of gross motor tasks for the children - simulating a Halloween fun filled theme. 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. Follow the skeleton foot prints and “mash the monsters”
2. Climb to the top of the house and jump to give Mr. Bone’s (the skeleton)and give him a high five.
3. Slide down into the spider web and find a spider.
4. Toss the spider into the spider web.
5. Blow a spider into the spider web.


Fine Motor:

Bats: The focus of this activity was to participate in messy sensory play through finger painting with the pudding. All of the children were encouraged to use functional reach and isolation in order to paint the bats with pudding and decorate them with Coco Puffs Cereal.




Big Green Monster: The focus of this activity is to work on the features of the face and where they are located such as the eyes, nose mouth ears and hair.


Monday, October 20, 2008

Motor Room Fall Harvest cont.

Here are some pictures from the Fall Harvest themed Motor Room the week of October 6.

Scarecrow Fine Motor Project

Fine Motor Activities:

Scarecrow: Some of the children worked with the song “the Hokey Pokey” to develop overall body awareness to locate body parts such as the legs, arms head and so on. They worked to producing a whole body of a scarecrow by appropriately placing straw on the feet, hands, and head. The children also talked about facial features such as eyes, nose and mouth and where to properly place these parts on the scare crow’s face.


Scarecrow: Some of the children worked on textures soft and rough. The children had to stuff the scarecrow by putting in both rough and soft texture (cotton and shredded paper).They used the glue to paste his facial features on. The focus for this activity was to develop awareness of where the eyes, nose, and mouth are on the face and to develop correct top down orientation.