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Children's Task Engagement and Skills Development

The document discusses different types of activities children engage in during observation tasks. It notes that children typically spend around 15 minutes on individual tasks, such as completing worksheets or using materials to understand lessons. In groups, children color, play with clay, or engage in other collaborative activities. The teacher introduces tasks and checks instructions. Interviews with children found one enjoys math activities and toys that make her smarter, while another is good at reading but wants to learn more math. The document also discusses how activities can develop skills in five areas: motor, auditory, visual, cognitive, and verbal.

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Children's Task Engagement and Skills Development

The document discusses different types of activities children engage in during observation tasks. It notes that children typically spend around 15 minutes on individual tasks, such as completing worksheets or using materials to understand lessons. In groups, children color, play with clay, or engage in other collaborative activities. The teacher introduces tasks and checks instructions. Interviews with children found one enjoys math activities and toys that make her smarter, while another is good at reading but wants to learn more math. The document also discusses how activities can develop skills in five areas: motor, auditory, visual, cognitive, and verbal.

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Observation Task 8: Activity types

Reflection
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How long do the children spend on one task?


What kind of tasks do they do individually? In pairs? In groups? As a class?
How does the teacher introduce the task? How are the instructions checked?
Work with a child. Ask him/her about what they enjoy doing at school. The
activities/subjects and why.
5. Ask a child about the things they are good at and also about what they want to learn
more about.
Children are fast they take about 15 minutes to finish a task.
As individual the do worksheet or use the material to understand the lesson in
the group if they color or play with clay.
While she explains the experience, she tells them that there will be a task and
when she distribute the task she tells them How they do it.
Fatima is a student she said that she like math and she enjoy playing math
toys because it makes her smarter.
Hamad is good at reading while other children cant read. He wants to learn
more about math.
Theory:

There are the variety of activities to develop skills in young children. Activities provided in
five skills:
1- Motor skill like fine motor and eye motor.
2- Auditory skills like listening and memory.
3- Visual skills like motor matching.
4- Cognitive skills like learning labels.
5- Verbal skills like languages and expressive ideas.
Reference:

Watson, M., University City School District, M., & And, O. (1972). Activities for the Early
Development of Perceptual Skills.

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