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TITLE:  The Little Red House

AUTHOR:  Kathleen Beveridge, Wamsley Elem., Rifle, CO

GRADE LEVEL:  K©1, developmental activity

OVERVIEW:  Students come into the classroom at different
readiness levels; therefore, developmental activities  need
to be presented that will help the child succeed in academic
areas.
  The five activities are based on the preacademic skills
established in the Early Prevention of School Failure
program.

PURPOSE:  The purpose of the five activities are to help
children develop the first developmental skill in Gross
Motor Coordination, Fine Motor Coordination, Auditory,
Language, and Visual areas, Using the story "The Little Red
House."

OBJECTIVES:
Auditory ©    Students are to listen without interrupting
              while maintaining eye contact.
Visual ©      Students are able to follow fixed and moving
              objects with their eyes without moving their
              heads.
Language ©    Students are able to identify and name some
              common objects and pictures.
Gross Motor © Students are able to walk forward, backward,
              and sideways on tape footprints.
Fine Motor ©  Students are able to manipulate small objects
              with both hands.

RESOURCES/MATERIALS:  A copy of the story, "The Little Red
House",(author unknown); felt cut outs of characters; old
magazines; apples; paper to glue pictures on; string
footprints and a flannel board.

ACTIVITIES AND PROCEDURES:
(Auditory) Students will listen to the story using their
best listening ears and looking eyes.  The students will be
asked not to look around the room or talk to their neighbor.
At the conclusion of the story an apple is sliced crossways
to reveal the star.  Everyone is then given half an apple to
eat.

(Visual)  Attach an apple to the end of a string.  Swing the
apple in front of the student's face, asking him to keep his
eyes on the apple without moving his head.  Continue to
swing the apple back and forth varying the height.

(Language)  Retell "The Little Red House" using cut outs of
the characters.  After the child identifies the figures in
the story they will find and cut out similar ones in old
magazines.  The student will then glue pictures, in proper
sequence of the story, on a separate piece of paper.

(Gross Motor)  After children are familiar with the story of
The Little Red House, designate one area in the classroom
where the boy and his mother are talking, another area down
the lane to thefarmer's big, red barn, one to Granny's
garden and, the last up the hill to the wind.  Have
footprints guide students forward, backward, and sideways.
(Fine Motor)  Using a flannel board and felt characters,
have children retell the story while moving the characters
about.

TYING IT ALL TOGETHER:  Through the use of this
light©hearted story and interesting activities children will
be developing preacademic skills.

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