Practical Life Exercises

Preliminary exercises

• Carrying a chair
• Carrying a table
• Carrying an apparatus
• Replacing objects
• Unrolling and rolling a rug
• Opening and closing a door
• Opening and closing objects
• Spooning rice
• Pouring rice
• Pouring water
• Folding fabric

Care of person exercises

• Button frame
• Snap frame
• Hook and eye frame
• Buckle frame
• Zipper frame
• Bow frame
• Lacing frame
• Washing hands
• Polishing shoes
• Washing dishes

Care of environment

• Dusting
• Sweeping
• Washing a chalkboard
• Polishing wood
• Setting a table
• Washing a table
• Arranging flowers
• Cutting vegetables

Control of movement

• Walking on the line

• The silence game
• Yoga for children

Grace and courtesy exercises

• Invitation into the room to be seated

• Greeting by name
• How to find a chair that fits your body
• Expression of admiration
• Thanking a person
• Guidance for interruption
• Yawning, coughing, and excusing self
• Offering assistance to others

Art exercises

• Drawing with crayons

• Painting with water colors
• Rubbing art with crayons
• Printing with stencils
• Collage
• Sculpting
• Fiber art: making a pompom
• Art folder and art forms from other cultures

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 Sensorial Exercises

Development of senses and perception

• Solid cylinder blocks

• Pink tower
• Brown stair
• Red rods
• Color tablets I
• Three-period lesson
• Color tablets II
• Color tablets III
• Geometric cabinet
• Geometric cards
• Botany cabinet and cards
• Sensitizing fingers
• Touch boards
• Introduction to a blindfold
• Graded touch tablets
• Fabrics
• Baric tablets
• Thermic bottles
• Thermic tablets
• Tasting jars
• Smelling bottles
• Sound cylinders
• Bells
• Geometric solids
• Sorting exercises
• Mystery bags
• Rectangular box I
• Rectangular box II
• Triangular box
• Small hexagonal box
• Large hexagonal box
• Knobless cylinders
• Binomial cube
• Trinomial cube
• Decanomial square
• Superimposed geometric figure

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 Mathematical Exercises

Introduction to quantity and symbol

• Number rods
• Sandpaper numbers
• Number rods and cards
• Spindle boxes
• Number cards and counters
• Memory game with numbers

Decimal System

• Presentation with beads

• Formation of numbers with beads and cards
• Addition: simple and dynamic
• Subtraction: simple and dynamic
• Multiplication: simple and dynamic
• Division: simple and dynamic
• Division with bows
• Stamp game: addition
• Stamp game: subtraction
• Dot game

Counting exercises

• Teen beads
• Teen boards with cards
• Teen boards with beads and cards
• Linear counting
• Skip counting

Four Operations

Addition
• Positive snake game
• Addition strip board
• Addition practice charts

Subtraction

• Negative snake game

• Subtraction strip board
• Subtraction practice charts

Multiplication

• Geometric multiplication
• Multiplication board
• Multiplication practice charts

Division

• Unit division board

• Division practice charts
• Small bead frame
• Large bead frame
• Test tube division: short
• Test tube division: long

Fractions

• Introduction to fractions
• Addition of fractions
• Subtraction of fractions
• Multiplication of fractions
• Division of fractions

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 Language Exercises

Enrichment of vocabulary

Sound games, reading and writing exercises

• Metal insets
• Sound games
• Sandpaper letters
• Movable alphabet
• Stages of writing
• Phonetic reading
• Puzzle words
• Phonograms
• Reading classification

Function of words

• Function of words: article

• Function of words: adjective
• Function of words: logical adjective game
• Function of words: detective adjective game
• Function of words: conjunction
• Function of words: preposition
• Function of words: verb
• Function of words: continuation of commands
• Function of words: adverb
• Function of words: logical adverb game

Sentence analysis

• Sentence analysis: simple sentence/stage I

• Sentence analysis: simple sentence/stage II
• Sentence analysis: simple sentences with extensions
• Sentence analysis: simple sentences with indirect objects
• Sentence analysis: simple sentences with attributes
• Sentence analysis: simple sentences with appositives
• Word study: antonyms
• Word study: positives, comparatives, superlatives

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 Cultural Exercises

Geography

• Land and waterforms

• Sandpaper globe
• Painted globe
• Map of the world
• Map of one continent
• Flags
• Geography folders
• Mapmaking

Music and languages

• Bells: music notation

• Bells: music composition
• Bells: comprehension of music
• Rhythm, melody, harmony
• Use of various instruments
• Singing
• Drama

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