Life C4.5. Money Polishing
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CARE OF ENVIOMENT

C4.5. MONEY POLISHING


MATERIALS:

Basket, a mat, polish container, cotton swab cut in half, polish cloth, pennies, money container, clean money container 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.

4. Get one or two drops of polisher cleaner and go back to the table.

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

6. Move the tray above the mat and unroll the mat. Take one penny and put it on 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 penny with sub-dominant hand and apply the polish with a circular motion.

9. Replace cotton swab.

10. Take polish cloth with dominant hand and hold the penny with sub-dominant hand. Polish the penny until it looks shiny.

11. Turn the penny other side and repeat the steps from 6 to 9.

12. Observe the work.

13. Open the money holder's lid and put the shiny money into the holder.

14. The child can polish as many as penny they want to polish.

15. When finished the work, clean up the polish container with polish cloth.

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

17. Return the items to the tray and roll the mat up.

18. Replace the basket 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 objects.

DEVELOPMENTAL:

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

2. Preparation for writing.

3. Motor planning.

4. Self confidence.

VOCABULARY:

Penny, money holder, polish, polishing tray, mat, polishing, polish cloth, cotton swab, shiny.

AGE:

2.5 and up


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