In an educational setting focused on garden themes, young learners engage in various activities designed to enhance their observational skills, sensory awareness, and experiential learning.
Physical TrainingSkills: To develop agility and flexibility
Bird flapping wings
Tree-swaying
Frog-jumping
Art and craftSkills: To develop hand-and-eyeco-ordination and fine motor skills
Flowers with thumb-printing
Butterfly with wrapper
Snail with onion
Environment Sciences and Life skillsSkills: Develop observation, Comparing, recording, sensory awareness, experiential learning
Making lemon-juice: Children will pluck one lemon from the garden(under supervision)
Rules in the garden - oral discussion, follow-up with role-play
Touch - 'feely-bag' - different things collected from the garden will be put in a bag. Children will put their hands inside, feel the thing and name it
Sounds - different types of sounds heard in the garden - falling of rain-drops on the leaves - croaking of frog - chirping of birds
Things that should be used on a rainy day like umbrella, rain-coat: write and draw
Things that can be seen on rainy day like moss, earthworm, snails, frogs, toad-stools etc - Follow-up with worksheet
Children will compare a walk on a rainy day with one on a normal dry day
Nature walk: Children will go for a walk in the garden, collect things, write two sentences on each and draw each item
ENGLISHSkills:Develop ability to comprehendVocabulary,WritingAwareness(ability to differentiate)
Circle the words related to the theme Children will identify and circle words related to the theme from a list
Picture composition Children will write a few sentences on a given picture
ComprehensionNew words related to the theme like tree, flower, frog etcMake sentences with words like tree, flower, frog etc
Poem Out in the garden Butterflies, I am a little squirrel
Introduction with jigsaw puzzle
MATHEMATICSSkills:Develop concept of numbervalues, Reasoning, Ability to add
Matching: Simple addition on one column and its sum on the other - the children would match it after doing the addition.
Usage of symbols like (>,<,=)
Story sums addition with words related to the theme
Number values upto 50 what comes after what comes before what comes in between fill in the missing number