The process of learning is enhanced when the kids do some related hands-on activities. Activities that are designed, teach the child a lot more than what we can perceive from it. Let’s take sorting of pulses. It teaches the kids fine motor skills, differentiation of colours and shapes, hand-eye co-ordination, pincer grip and also recognition of different pulses. To add, it also can be used as a tool to increase the child’s concentration.
This activity was held in the KG kitchen for the Nursery class. Children were given a bowl of mixed pulses like black-eyed beans (chavali), black pulses (rajma), chick-peas (chhole) and groundnut (shengdane). All different in shape and colour. They had to separate these in four different bowls.
The kids sorted the pulses most cleverly by picking out the black pulses first and then separating the rest according to their shapes…. the sorting was much faster this way. Teachers monitored the activity closely, helping them and praising them for their ‘good job’!
The next time you are cleaning pulses at home, do ask help from your lil’ one.
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