What would you do as extra activites for kids to enhance the following activities??

Question

Fine & Gross motor skills?

language development

& everything that kids need which you think is 'necessary' in a child before they start school or in the early years at school

Answer 1

Well im doing early childhood studies atm and for fine and gross motor skills i would do something like tennis ball painting and fly swat painting and marble painting then slowly work into more difficult things. there heaps of good web sites with instructions.

Answer 2

I'm assuming you are a parent :-)

You are probably doing quite a bit on your own in your "every day" routine.  But for extras...here are some ideas.

Fine Motor:  lacing, SCISSORS!!!, stacking blocks, tearing paper, crumpling paper, playdough (tap in golf tees and have them balance marbles on the top), Have a "writing tub" somewhere available to the child at all times with various paper, stickers, stamps, writing utensils, etc.

Gross Motor:  create a "rail road track" on your cement area with chalk.  Walk, run, skip, gallop, slide, jump, etc around the track while singing a train song (Down by the Station).  Create an icecream cone with a scoop for every letter in the child's name.  Start at the cone and jump to each letter stating it.  Balance on the "beams" of a sandbox.  Go to the park.

Language:  Sing nursery rhymes, note the syllables (word chunks), the rhyming, Play word substitutions or letter substitutions, act out, have the retell the nursery rhyme.

Answer 3

mark making, play dough, construction, collage, printing, jigsaws, sorting, all good for fine motor skills. Large movements using whole of arms to make letter shapes, throwing, catching, riding bikes, climbing, rolling, twisting and crawling, dancing and playing with streamers all good for gross motor skills.

Any talking during these activities focusing on simple and appropriate language and grammatical structures, repetition, for instance, "you caught the ball, she caught the ball, i caught the ball, we all catch the ball."

Circle time, joining in with repeated phrases in story, rhymes and poems, songs, word games, all these things will aid and promote children's language development.

Also, mathematical development, problem solving, reasoning, shape, space and measure, knowledge and understanding of the world, creative development, physical development, personal social and emotional development are all part of the early years foundation stage. Google: early years foundation stage for suggestions on developmental stages and how to provide appropriate activities.

Ps always sand and water, small world, role play, and mark making as part of provision for this age range.

Answer 4

fine motor - writing their names, play doh, tearing paper, stringing beads

Gross motor - cooperative games - with it being so nice outside now, take them out and let them run and play.

language development is all around you - talk to them and see what's on their minds - show them new words and use the correct vocabulary

everything - whoa, tall orde!  name, address, phone number, write their name and identify the letters, count to 20, identify shapes and numbers, separate from parents without undue stress

Answer 5

For the motor skills, you could do bead necklaces.  It helps them learn to hold the small pieces and thread the string.  They love it b/c they made something all on their own.

For language, sing, talk, go over the alphabet.  Leap Frog has a great video that goes through each letter and does the sound of the letter.

The child will also need to know his/her colors, so color with them and tell them which colors they are using.  Also, make it fun to count.  Count their food, fingers, toys.

Just spend time with the kid and communicate.  It's fun.  :)