Cognitive Development in Preschoolers

Cognitive development focuses on developing functions of the brain such as thinking, learning, awareness, judgment, and processing information. According to developmental psychologist Jean Piaget, children go through several stages of cognitive development and learning activities for toddlers and children should correspond to the appropriate developmental stage.

Pumpkin sorting is a cognitive activity for preschoolers that helps them learn and practice the skills of classification, relationships, and counting. This lesson plan includes preparation instructions, procedures, and materials list for this activity. The lesson plan also includes age-appropriate learning objectives and examples of the simple supporting verbal cues necessary to encourage participation and support learning in child care centers.

Activity Materials

• Large Felt Board
• Orange Felt
• Pumpkin templates (optional)
• Scissors

Activity Preparation

Trace pumpkins in various sizes (some large and some small) on a large piece of orange felt. You may also use pumpkin templates to trace the pumpkins on the felt. Cut the pumpkins out the felt. Arrange them randomly on a large felt board.

Procedure

Invite the children over to the felt board. Explain to them that they will be sorting pumpkins and arranging them biggest to smallest. Encourage the children to place the pumpkin cut outs in graduated order from biggest to smallest. After they are arranged encourage the children to sort into two categories, placing big pumpkins on one side of the board and small pumpkins on the other. Next ask them to count the number of pumpkins in each group.

Objective 1: To develop an understanding of classification by encourage children to sort pumpkins by size

• Verbal Cue A: Can you sort the pumpkins into big and small?
• Verbal Cue B: Let’s put the big large pumpkins on this side of the board and the small pumpkins on the other side.

Objective 2: To teach about relationships using the terms small, big, and bigger

• Verbal cue A: Let’s arrange all of the pumpkins in order from big to small.
• Verbal Cue B: Which pumpkin is bigger? This pumpkin or this pumpkin?

Objective 3: To introduce the number concept of 1-10

• Verbal Cue A: Let’s count the number of small pumpkins
• Verbal Cue B: How many large pumpkins are there?

By participating in this pumpkin sorting activity, young children will learn important cognitive skills such as sorting and classification, spend time becoming familiar with the symbols of autumn, and have great fun.

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Reading List

Autumn Board Books and Picture Books (Baby – Age 3)

Dappled Apples by Jan Carr and Dorothy Donohue [Holiday House, 2001]

Leaf Baby: Baby Seasons Board Books by Mary Bridgid Barrett and Eve Chwast [Red Wagon Books, 1998]

Autumn by Gerda Muller [Floris Books, 1994]

Fall: Seasons Board Books by Chris L. Demarest [Red Wagon Books, 1996]

5 Little Pumpkins by Michael Scott [Hyperion Books, 2003]

One Fall Day by Molly Bang [Greenwillow books, 1994]

Pumpkin Baby by Jane Yollen and Susan Mitchell [Key Porter Books, 2009]

Acorns Everywhere by Kevin Sherry [Dial, 2009]

Early Readers Ages 4-8

Clifford’s First Autumn by Norman Bridwell [Cartwheel, 1997]

Why Do Leaves Change Color? By Betsy Maestro and Loretta Krupinski [Collins, 1994]

In November by Cynthia Rylant and Jill Kastner [Sandpiper, 2008]

Corn is Maize by Aliki [Collins, 1986]

We Gather Together by Wendy Pfeiffer and Linda Beck [Dutton Juvenile, 2006]

Autumn An Alphabet Acrostic by Steven Schnur and  Leslie Evans [Clarion Books, 1997]

When Autumn Comes by Robert Mass [Henry Holt & co., 1992]

Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Elhert [Harcourt Children’s Books, 1991]

Fall (Four Seasons Series) by Nuria Roca [Barron’s Educational Series, 2004]

Arthur Jumps into Fall by Marc Brown [LB Kids, 2006]

Fall is Here by Elaine W. Good [Good Books, 1969]

Leaves by David Ezra Stein [Putnam Juvenile, 2007]

Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005]

Every Autumn Comes the Bear by Jim Arnosky [Putnam, 1996]

Free Autumn Preschool Worksheets and Printables
There are many worksheets for fall that you can print out and use for your lesson plans. Worksheets should include coloring pages, handwriting worksheets like those on First-Preschool’s website, and printable craft patterns. For older children, try DLTK’s autumn worksheets which are appropriate for school aged children.

The following websites provide free fall printables:
First- Preschool: Autumn Coloring Pages
DLTK:  Autumn activities for Kids
KidZone: Autumn Themed Resources
PrintActivities.com: Fall Activities
Apples for the Teacher: Autumn Coloring Book Pages

Autumn symbols and themes include leaves, pumpkins, corn, scarecrows, apples, wheat, harvest, cornucopia, sunflowers, trees, acorns, pinecones, and wreaths. Building lesson plans around these symbols help teach young children in daycare centers about autumn, fall, harvesting, and thanksgiving.

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Different types of play support many different types of development:

• Singing, with movement develops memory and language, social participation and imitation, rhythm, rhyme and body awareness
• Undirected playing encourages social skills, such as cooperation, taking turns and following instructions
• Hands on letter play builds pre-writing skill. The teacher shows children how to make letters with dough, wood pieces, or magnetic stamps. They learn letters (and numbers) in multi-sensory active play.
• Coloring and drawing with small crayons help children develop a good pencil grip and developmentally appropriate pages make for easy coloring and drawing. Building structures and simple shapes with wood pieces leads naturally to drawing success.

At its core, play is a physical, kinetic activity. Sitting at a table playing a literacy game, for example, can be a great opportunity to build fine motor skills. A teacher could give a child of preschooler age plastic tweezers and cover a table with paper-cut out letters and ask the students to pick out all of the B’s, or the letters in their name. Not only are her students building their letter identification, they are practicing the skills essential for later writing development.

Gross motor play, including outside time, is full of pretend play and physical activity. This type of play is often easiest for an adult to enter without disrupting the flow of the activity. Adults should observe for a few moments before entering the game, and then ask, “What are we playing?” A simple verbal cue can set the stage for the pretend story at hand. Very quickly, she will find herself running, laughing, and enjoying as much physical development as her young playmates.

In pretend play, children use their imaginations and generate different ideas and images. This helps them to learn to think of different ways to solve a problem, either in a creativity task or in daily life. Children who have good pretend play ability can think of more things to do in a situation (like being at the doctor). This ability is usually independent of intelligence. Pretend play also relates to ability to understand the emotions of others and to take the perspective of the other. This is probably because children take many different roles when they play. For example, they pretend to be the mother, baby, boy, girl, teacher, dentist, etc.

Do not discount the importance of learning through play. Play allows children to learn through their natural curiosity about the world at large. Daycare providers should take advantage of the opportunity to facilitate this type of learning by offering play activities that foster creativity, imagination, and problem-solving skills like negotiation.

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Wordless picture books are a great way to start teaching your child. These books are full of pictures which tell a story without the sentences or words that usually come with these. This is quite effective for pre school children since the pictures create a story as they are viewed in sequential order. Through this, your child will learn that reading is done from left to right with the right way of flipping the pages. This will give them the sense of the right way of reading a book. As you read to them, they will be able to make up their own dialogues as well as story lines as they read each picture. This can encourage them to become readers in the future.

Slowly Build Up
The advantage of having wordless picture books is the way in which you can adjust story telling. Since there are no words that accompany each page, you have the liberty to add or make the stories more complex as you read to your child. You will be able to add certain details as slowly as you can. You can add verb, adjectives, nouns and so on which can add to the vocabulary of your child. The tenses can also be varied as well as well as the tones in the dialogues. This makes your story telling as versatile as you want it to be. You can add more event as well as dialogues each time you read the story to your child. This will expand his imaginations when it comes to reading books.

Let Him Read
Encouraging interaction between you and your child will make reading a more enjoyable and fun activity for your child. You can start reading the first page of the story and ask your child to continue what you have started. This will make you child be more attentive to what you are saying to him. You will be able to enhance the communication skills that you children is developing. One way to make this very effective is by asking him questions along the way, this will make your child pay more attention to the details of the book as well as make his imagination work. If you think that your child is ready, your child can even be the one to make up his own story. He can have his share of reading by asking him to read the story for you. This will give you a chance to evaluate the reading progress of your child.

What should you look for when you evaluate your child? You need to know that good readers follow a certain sequence that is logical. They have a way of organizing their thoughts into events that should happen logically. Besides from this, your child should be able to pay attention to as much details as possible. They are not expected to just notice what id obvious but they need to make sure that each and every detail is not missed as he looks at every picture. They are able to practice their comprehension skills. Through the pictures only, the children are expected to be able to make sense out of them. They should be able to come up with a story which has a unified theme. Part of this includes the elements of the story such as the plot, tone and the characters. By having an idea on these things, your child will have an easier time when it comes to reading various stories in the future.

Basically, wordless picture books prepared the child and equip them for future reading. Even if these books do not have words with them, the children are able to develop their reading skills. They will understand the concept that books have a begin, middle and an end. Their comprehension skills as well as imagination are enhanced as they are reading these books. These are two things which are very important when somebody reads a book because without these things, you will never really understand and enjoy reading a book.

Communication is also one thing which you need to enhance as your child is reading a book. They need to understand the sequences as well as the tenses which they are reading. As of now, as long as they are able to make up something out of the pictures, is already a great improvement for your child.

Do not get into a hurry by buying your children all those complicated books. Sometimes, all you need are the most simple things when you want your child to learn. Start from the basics and you will find it easier to develop more complex reading skills for your child. Teaching your child how to read is not that hard. You just need to know how to teach them in the right way. If you do, see how your child will easily be inclined to read as he grows older.

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With so many choices, it may be difficult for you to choose one. It is highly recommended that you have a lesson plan and depending on the lesson for the day, you can now pick up your craft sets in toy stores and teach your children how to learn the fun way!

Puppet shows are one of the most enjoyable learning methods of children. You can teach them how to make their own puppet and play with them afterwards. Choose a theme or storyline from their favourite show and you can play with the puppets and imagine that they are the real thing. This will really allow your child to use their creativity in making puppets. One more thing is that they will learn how to be resourceful. They will learn that they can use sock for puppets and even buttons for eyes. Your child will learn a lot from this activity.

Play dough has been one of the most popular choices for parents. Almost everyone you know have played with this. All you need when playing with clay is your imagination. You can teach children how to make animals, people, shapes and numbers using play dough. The children can work in groups and come up with a whole set of animals or a village. This is an enjoyable activity for your child since they can mold anything that they like, in any color that they want. You can play guessing games by molding a shape and ask your child what you have molded. This will allow your child to discover new things through pay dough.

Cooking is a fun activity that you can teach your child. The easiest way that your child can enjoy cooking is through baking. You can bake your child’s favourite cake, cookies, cupcakes, muffin and almost anything. You can teach your child how to mix the batter and pour them in the pans. But cooking does not stop there. You can buy decorating materials for the cake. You can buy colored icing and flowers made out of sugar which you can use to decorate a cake. You can put different designs on the cake which will make it more enjoyable to eat.

In baking cookies, you can use various shapes on cookie cutters which will be make cookies more fun to eat. You can also make crafts like designing cookie jars where you will out your cookies after baking. You can teach them how to draw simple things on the jars which they will remember everytime they get a cookie.

Playing outdoors have always been one of the things that children enjoy doing. Crafts are usually done indoor which may bore your child. It is important to have some fresh air once in a while. One activity that you can teach your child that can e dine outdoors is gardening. Teach your child how to plant, make flowerpots and even garden bins. At this point, your child may have established a favourite flower, fruit or vegetable. You can buy seeds and team up so that you can plant together, dig the sand, place the seed and cover it with soil. You can teach your child to be responsible by checking up on the plant from time to time and watering them based on the schedule. You can also plant in pots where you can put designs like a face where the hair is the grass that is growing. There are countless of options that you may take when it come to gardening.

Making scrapbooks is one craft that your child will surely enjoy. You can but a blank scrapbook which you can decorate from scratch. Let your child pick pictures which they like or remember to have a good memory with. These are the pictures which you can place in the scrapbook. Your child can practice his writing, coloring and even designing. They can incorporate colors which complement each other and designs with a theme. You can have fun reminiscing these moments with your child.

There are so many crafts from which you can choose from. You just need to be creative in coming up with an activity for you and your child. Make sure that you are able to teach your child the importance of doing the activity so that they will not only enjoy to learn but they will also enjoy the activity.

Children love to learn in a creative way so make sure that whatever you are doing, your child is interested in this. They will be willing to learn if they are enjoying what they are doing. Make sure that you are doing a craft that is age-appropriate that will allow them to learn from these. Remember that crafting is more than just a hobby or a past time, it is something which you can use to teach your child certain skills which they can further develop when they grow up.

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Animal Making
This first fun activity involves making the different animals using art materials. There are a lot of animals which can be made and each animal should be described and discussed accordingly.

An easy example is making a reindeer. You would need black, brown, tan and white construction papers, markers and scissors. Both hands of the child should be traced onto the tan construction paper. After which, the pattern should be cut out. The same thing should be done with a shoe on the brown paper. The two hand patterns should then be glued onto the narrower part of the shoe pattern. Eyes and mouth should also be made from the different colored papers and glued on the shoe pattern. The reindeer is already ready showing the kids that reindeers have antlers.

Other animals can be made in such a way that they would have other uses like dangling snakes which can be room decorations and elephant pencil holders which is also a nice method of recycling items. The most important thing in doing these activities is asking the kids to participate even through simple coloring or pasting for the kids to have their focus on the lesson and for them to really enjoy.

A “cook-and-eat” Activity
Since eating while learning is fun, learning while eating would be a nice activity for preschoolers. To avoid heavy clean up after classes, taping plastic covers on the table would be a good thing to do.

The first food to make is reindeer bread using brown bread as the body, raisins as eyes, pretzels as antlers, marshmallows as mouth and peanut butter. The bread should be sliced diagonally to obtain two triangles. The kids should do the spreading of the peanut butter on their slices and decorating their bread reindeers accordingly.

The next food is polar bear bread using bread which is cut in two circular sizes using a cookie cutter and black olives in different shapes as eyes (sliced), nose (whole) and mouth (thinly sliced) and grated cheese which would be the fur. The bigger circular bread would serve as the body, a smaller circle would be the head and two more small circles would serve as the ears. These are all placed in a plate and decorated with grated cheese and the olives.

Another food activity that would allow children to learn is by using animal crackers which come in different shapes, lettuce and chicken. Two plates are each given to a student: one is filled with lettuce while the other is filled with chicken. The child is then asked on which of the animals eat lettuce and which eat meat. They should then be classified as herbivores and carnivores animals that eat plants and animals that eat other animals respectively.

Assemble and Match
When the activity involves matching pictures and assembling puzzles, the children can easily remember the lesson because of the visual cues. Two activities under this section include matching the animal parents with their kids and assembling animal puzzles. Both activities are easy. By using the pictures of animals, the children could mix and match the pairs of parent and young. For puzzles the large animal pictures could be cut into two and shuffled on a table full of other pieces of pictures. Matching and assembling the puzzle would be a nice activity for the kids.

Animal Games
The last set of activities discussed in this article can be considered interactive games such as sound games, kangaroo games, monkey games and zoo keeper games. Interactive games are one of the most effective techniques in teaching small children.

The sound game is a teaching technique to inform the kids of the different sounds that animals make by showing a picture and asking them to listen to the sound you’ll make or asking them on what they think is the animal sound.

The kangaroo game is a relay that should be done outdoors. This is done so the children would know the nature of the kangaroos in rearing their young which is by placing them in their pouches and showing them the main mode of movement of the animals which is through hopping.

The zoo keeper game is another activity which can test the children’s knowledge about the different animals by asking them to tell a story about an animal they love to take care of in an imaginary scenario where they are the zoo keepers. Another version of the game is allowing the kids to make different animals sounds and making the “it” catch all the animals by identifying them and placing them in zoo cages which is the responsibility of a zoo keeper.

Lastly, the monkey game is aimed to teach children of the imitating ability of monkeys. The game is played in a circle where the leader monkey would do actions that the other monkeys should follow.

Aside from the activities mentioned in this article, there are a lot more things that you, as a preschool teacher can choose from. Nursery rhymes, songs with actions, story telling, puppets and other creative methods of teaching are the best methods to make small children learn about the different zoo animals and their importance in our world.

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If exposing the children to additional sounds or letters becomes very overwhelming for them, just focus on one letter only for the entire week. If you aim to just focus on one letter alone for the whole week, add different picture cards which have the letter placed in a variety of positions. For example, if you are focusing on the letter G, a toy gun can be your focus object; picture cards showing a goat, grass, glass, bag, log, bug, etc. can be used. Make sure that every picture card contains the word’s spelling. You can also add other items to the display/ center.

You can incorporate the following suggestions in creating your display or you can also choose to make them sound/ alphabet activities which can stand alone.

a) Textured Letters- You can trace letters (using different fonts can also be fun) using glue (adding salt or sand if you want) then let it dry. This activity can be a great tactile experience for young students.

b) Name Scramblers- Make a card for each different letter in the alphabet. Then, making use of the child’s name, mix the letters and then challenge the child to rearrange the letters so they can recreate another name. You can also do this activity with advanced students by asking the whole class to think of all the words they can think as they rearrange the word “scrambled”.

c) Memory game- If you are focusing one letter during the week, make cards with each letter having a different font style (use lower and/ or upper case). Create two copies (you can laminate them for purposes of durability), cut them out, scramble the cards, then lay them down individually facing down. The mechanics of the game is that of the traditional lotto’s.

d) Play Dough- Make laminated large letters. Then, let the children trace the letter lines using dough snakes to come up with the letter you are focusing on. You can also make use of cookie dough in this activity. When you’re done with the activity, you can bake it afterwards for your children to eat on snack time.

e) Labels- You can put up labels representing the objects all over the room. Let the children roam around the classroom then ask them to count all the focus letters which they can find. Change labels every day so the children can have a new, as well as fun routine which is educational for the children.

The activities above are only some fun activities which you can do let the children do. As care providers, educators and parents, we have to lay down that stepping stone which can make your children’s reading experience successful. Using your imagination, you can make this adventure a successful one.

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Begin your lesson plan with a short setting about Ireland. The simplest way to start is by getting a map of the world or a model of the earth like globe or world map, and showing the children where Ireland is located. Afterwards show them the national flag of Ireland and tell them what the colors on their flag stand for.
Once you’ve given the children the basic facts about Ireland, you may now introduce St. Patrick and why St. Patrick’s Day is being celebrated. Tell them a bit about the popular symbols of St. Patrick’s Day including: the four leaf clover, plus the leprechauns, and blarney stone, or the rainbows, along with the pot of gold. You can also give them a background about the national symbol of Ireland which is no other than the shamrock.

Then, give some details on why the shade of green is so prominent on St. Patrick’s Day. For instance, tell the children that green represents nature and hope. You can also ask them to give examples of green things that can be found in nature.

The following are daycare books about St. Patrick’s Day. Be sure to check them out, as you can use these books as guides or sources of useful information.

• St. Patrick’s Day Countdown written by Salina Yoon. This powerful, multi-coloured board book aids tally the days pending St. Patrick’s Day with the jungle friends.
• Let’s Celebrate St Patrick’s Day written by Peter Roop. This delightful image book discovers the history, or customs, plus the folklore of St. Patrick’s Day along with a craft plus a recipe.
• Jack and the Leprechaun written by Ivan Robertson and Katy Bratun. Jack the mouse spends the daytime trying to grasp a leprechaun even as he visits his cousin in Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day.

There are also a wide variety of simple St. Patrick’s Day activates that you can do with the children in your class. We have outlined some examples below.

Shamrock ice-cream Sandwiches

Pre-mix some honey cookie dough and place it in a Ziploc bag. Then add some lime food colouring and have the children in your class squish the container until the green food coloring is all over the dough. Take out the dough and flatten it with a rolling pin. Cut the dough by means of a shamrock cookie reaper (you can let the children help with this). Bake the shamrock-shaped dough and allow them to cool. Put some frosting or soft ice cream amid the cookies and dish up.

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So during this time, day care teachers and providers should help their students maintain proper decorum and manage their unacceptable behaviors. This could be a bit difficult especially when handling children, but here are a few tips to consider –

Being a model and providing positive reinforcement
Teachers should model behaviors such as using their “indoor” voice. It is also important to always use an instructional attitude with preschooler such as saying “You may do that at home but we do it differently here” or “we don’t say that word here.”

Give positive attention to the needs of the child, however, bad behaviour should not receive positive attention – attention should be focused on the need. A child sometimes feels that he is left out and does things like pushes or hits in their attempt to be included. This attention needs to be paid to the desire to play and belong. A child’s inner turmoil only increases when you give negative attention to an appropriate behavior. A child care provider should always keep in mind that punishment only adds insult to injury while positive attention goes a long way.

Inappropriate Behavior should be corrected
A day care teacher should always exercise discretion when correcting inappropriate manners. Talking to a preschooler in private is one great skillful ways of nipping the bad behavior of the child. Preschoolers are becoming more aware and concerned with their peer’s opinions and they can be easily embarrassed. Confronting and correcting bad behaviors should be done in private by smart preschool teachers.

Day care providers should also help the children understand the consequences of their actions. It had always been encouraged that teachers to allow the consequences to teach the child. For instance, if one of the day care children is hitting someone, a teacher can simply step in and say something like, “I can’t let you hit your classmates. Since you are hitting you seatmate, you must move away from these children.” Then the teacher moves the child to another part of the room. Doing this consequence teaches the child that inappropriate aggressive behaviour can result to removal from the group.

Children should also be given choices when day care providers are solving some problems. It is also considered a great strategy for problem solving. So provide them with choices and ask the kids what can work so that things will work out for both of them. Let them come up with ideas before telling them what should be done.

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Toys for day care center have become a booming business today. Designing these toys is but one step but mass production of these toys is also a big concern. Many toys have been designed and created, from pianos, clocks, talking microphones, play sets and a sheer quantity of electronic toys and computer games designed to enhance learning has been made for the market. Despite these technological innovations, simple alphabet blocks and coloring books still are in demand. Simplicity is still the best teacher of the basics.

Studies have shown that a significant effect in a child’s self-confidence, communication skills, coordination and creativity is felt by use of these specialized toys. Furthermore, emotional development is also enhanced hand in hand with technological adeptness that is useful in later life. Learning activities are still the best ways to impart knowledge, as the children with their short attention spans need to be active to hold their curiosity. Thus keeping a child’s focus married with technological breakthroughs have created a great set of learning toys for children.

Because of this ever expanding market, many businesses have specialized in this industry. Day care toys can be found in just about anywhere, and the toys are a dizzying array of puzzles, activity toys, science toys, sports toys, music toys, electronics toys and the classic wooden toys. Day care toys can be used to learn from a wide range of subjects such as math, geography, science and language. But toys are basically for fun, so learning without the fun becomes drudgery for a child. As technology develops, day care toys would remain in the forefront of fun and learning for a child growing up.

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