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Planning Developmentally Appropriate ECCE Curriculum

12:00 pm 12:30 pm Indoor free play in small groups, blocks, dolls, puzzles,
constructive tools, etc.
Notes 12:30 pm 12.50 pm Creative activity

12:50 pm 01:00 pm Socio-emotional development activity (story, rhythmic
movements, rhyme, dramatisation and role play)

01:00 pm Dismissal

How to conduct activities for children in the age group of three to six years,
separately on the sub-topic, 'Common Usage of Water'.

Objective: To familiarise children with the common uses of water.
Duration: Minimum two days (younger age group needs more time than the
older age group)

Material: low cost –or no cost material, teacher made

Activities for children in the three to four year age group
Free conversation: Teacher may start a day with free conversation with children
on common uses of water. (Note–: All children must be given a chance to speak).
From free conversation teacher may proceed towards structured conversation
related to water which will help children pick up more information about the
uses of water and develop their vocabulary related to water. If there is a pet in the
ECCE centre, children may been couraged to give it water to drink and be allowed
to observe the animal drinking water.

Songs and rhyme: Singing songs and rhymes related to the use of water promoting
language development, conducting music and movement and creative and aesthetic
development activities.

Outdoor activity: Showing children a gardener watering plants, centre assistants
mopping floor, water in the washroom being used by everyone for washing hands,
water being used in the school kitchen, making tea using water, etc.
Water play: Letting children play with a small tub of water freely with containers
of different shapes and sizes, some with holes, so that the water drips from them.

Field trip: Taking children out to observe a pond or lake, if it is nearby. Rhymes
and songs related to water for developing vocabulary.

Activities for children in the four to six year age group

Guided conversation related to water. Using audio-video material, picture books
with pictures of common uses of water can be used.

Role play: Encouraging children to think about uses of water. Getting children to
dramatise different uses of water, each child can act out one use and the others
can guess what it is.

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