Early Child Motor Skills

Gross motor skills involve the use of large muscle groups. Infants acquire these skills by learning how to hold one's head up and eventually turn over their body, laying on their backs and flipping onto their bellies and vice versa. Over time, gross motor skills such as crawling, standing, balancing, and walking are learned, eventually turning into running, jumping, and pedaling. Gross Motor Skills for Little Learners is an excellent collection of activities that help children develop these crucial gross early child motor skills.

There are several subcategories that are included in gross motor skills. Locomotive skills involve coordinating the entire body while crawling, walking, running, and skipping. Stability skills help one balance their body while it's in motion turning, twisting, rolling, and bending. The EZ Stepper is a family favorite to practice stability. Manipulation skills are the use of hands and fingers to manipulate objects by throwing, dribbling, catching, and kicking. Joey Jump is an exciting game a child can play to learn hand-eye coordination with catching. By incorporating gross and fine early child motor skills into game and playtime, children will learn the skills they will use for a lifetime while having fun.

Peanut School Decorations

I love EVERYTHING Peanuts! But….. who doesn’t!

Back to school time reminds me of Peanuts. We are now offering a great variety of items that work perfectly in any classroom. Whether you are looking to create a specific bulletin board for your classroom, or if you just want cute stickers to put on papers that you are grading, purefunsupply.com has a great variety of items.

When creating a bulletin board remember the basics. Always start with an eye catching back ground color. It should match the items that you are going to be putting on top. For example if you want to make a bulletin board about setting goals, first check out this great goal banner (Peanuts of course!)

I would make my background color Yellow to make the few yellow pictures pop! Then i would make the banner the main focus of my board. Use large block letters to make a catchy phrase. Then find other bulletin board sets that will make your board pop.

Leave a space for students to write their goals and then you can post them to the board! Help your students learn how to track their goals and celebrate them when they achieve them!

 

Happy Back to School!

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Tasting Colors

 

We always tell our schools to have the students try to GUESS the flavor they are drinking when they are serving our Stain Fighter Clear flavors. Here is a great blog from www.education.com with a fun activity to see if your eyes can fool your taste buds.

 

http://www.education.com/science-fair/article/can-eyes-fool-taste-buds/

Author: Shelly Smith

Topics Fifth Grade, Fourth Grade, Third Grade, Second Grade, First Grade, Elementary School, Psychology

Grade Level: 1st to 5th; Type: Psychology

Objective:

This project examines whether people’s perceptions of taste are influenced by their sight.

Research Questions:

Can the color of a food or drink affect a person’s perception of its taste? or Can our eyes fool our taste buds?

Materials:

• Three containers of apple juice ( or feel free to try any of our clear flavors for a mixture)
• Red and green food coloring
• 60 small, clear plastic cups
• 20 test subjects •
• Paper
• Pencil

Experimental Procedure:

1. With the food coloring, dye one container of juice red and one container of juice green.
2. Pour a couple of inches of juice into each cup so that you have 20 cups of red juice, 20 cups of green juice, and 20 cups of uncolored juice.
3. Place one cup of each color of juice in front of a test subject.
4. Ask your subject to taste the red juice and tell you what flavor it is.
5. Ask your subject to taste the green juice and tell you what flavor it is.
6. Ask your subject to taste the uncolored juice and tell you what flavor it is.
7. Record their answers.
8. Repeat steps 3 to 7 for all of your subjects.
9. Analyze your results. Did the color of the juice affect your subjects’ perceptions of their flavors? Did people mis-identify the flavors in keeping with the colors. (For example: Did they think the red juice tasted like fruit punch or cherry?)

Terms/Concepts: Taste buds, Sense of Taste, Sense of Sight

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