Our Prideen’s of pre-nursery were recently introduced to the concept of up and down and animals around Us. In order to recapitulate these concepts, children recited the rhyme “Do Chuhe The”. Teachers asked them probing questions like –what sound does a mouse make, does the mouse have a tail or not. Children were thereafter engaged in a creating mouse shaped bookmarks. Using these bookmarks and cat puppets they were shown the cat mouse chase i.e. when mouse goes up, cat comes down and when cat goes up, mouse goes down. Teacher used the vocabulary, which had meaning of up and down. Teacher then attached the tails at the back of all children and two children were dressed as cats (using cats mask). They then had to collect as many tails possible till all children have lost their tails. Teacher repeated the game with next pair of children. The activity, enjoyed by all, also helped developed the gross and fine motor skills.
