Life C4.2. Wood Polishing
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CARE OF ENVIOMENT

C4.2. WOOD POLISHING


MATERIALS:

Basket, apron, a mat, polish container, cotton swab cut in half, polish cloth, wood object and polish liquid.

PREPARATION:

Materials are ready. Invite child. Name activity. Show child were material is located. Child is ready to work with this activity.

PRESENTATION:

1. Walk with the child to the shelf where the material is located.

2. Pick up the basket with both hands. Carry it to the table and put it on the table.

3. Pick up the cleaner container with dominant hand and walk back to the shelf. Get one or two drops of polisher cleaner and go back to the table.

4. Sit down and let child sit on your sub-dominant hand.

5. Put the apron on.

6. Move the tray above the mat. Take the wood object and place it in the center of the mat, then take polish container, cotton swab, and polish cloth and put them in sequential order on the mat.

7. Pick up the cotton swab with dominant hand and dip it lightly into the polish container while holding the container with the subdominant hand.

8. Hold the wood object with sub-dominant hand and apply the polish with a circular motion.

9. Replace cotton swab.

10. Take polish cloth with dominant hand and polish the object the same way the polish was applied until the object is shiny.

11. Observe the work

12. Clean up the polish container with polish cloth.

13. Carry the dirty swab to the trash and take the polish cloth to the wash basket.

14. Return the items to the tray and replace it on the shelf.

CONTROL OF ERROR:

1. Put too much polish.

2. Seeing polish left on the object.

3. Seeing polish left on the mat.

4. Do not clean up the dirty polish cloth or swab.

POINTS OF INTEREST:

1. Seeing the shinning object.

2. Seeing the polish all over the object.

3. Seeing the different between before and after polish.

ENVIRONMENT AIMS:

1. Care of the environment.

2. Learning how to polish wooden objects.

DIRECT AIMS:

1. Development of O.C.C.I.

2. Preparation for writing.

3. Motor planning.

4. Self confidence.

VOCABULARY:

Name of object, polish, polishing tray, mat, apron, polishing, polish cloth, cotton swab, shiny.

AGE:

2.5 and up

VARIATION:

1. Polish the furniture.

2. Polishing the shelf in the classroom.


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