Aesthetic Domain Activity

Discussion Activity for the Aesthetic Domain for Preschool children

Aesthetic Viewing Activities

Preschool children can and needs to have some fun in the form of being exposed to visual viewing activities. The best way to achieve this is to take the kids to a museum field trip where those aged three years and above can get to see the artwork up and close. Where it is not possible, the teachers can choose to use the art book or find information from the internet for child-friendly work to illustrate to the kids. Ask the children to identify the item on the artwork or identify specific shapes and colors.

Main Goal

To enhance children ability to identify objects from a complex picture.

To learn colors and patterns

Materials List

The most ideal and affordable option of aesthetic viewing activity would be to find child-friendly materials from the internet. Here is a list of materials required for aesthetic viewing activity:

Blackboard

Pins

Stapler

Blank papers

Pointer

Painting chalks

Step-by-step Procedures explanation

To help children learn from viewing objects, colors and shapes obtained from the internet, the teacher will require to

Download and print child-friendly museum-like items pictures from the internet

Get a blackboard and center it in the classroom

Use stapler and pins to stick the pictures on the blackboard

The children should be sited around the blackboard in a circle. The teacher stands throughout the activity

Take the children in a session of identifying colors, shapes, odd out objects, patterns, and others.

Reward a child for every successful attempt.

ONE Simplification of each activity for students who may be struggling

For children struggling with identifying shapes, colors or patterns, only use simple pictures to the exercises. Ensure every child is rewarded.

ONE Extension of each activity for students who are gifted students who need a challenge

For the more developed children, give them more complex pictures, with more complex patterns.

Guided Discovery Activity for the Aesthetic Domain for Kindergarten children

Rope Jumping

Performing the basic stretches to create adaptability and flexibility towards the performance of everyday lifetime exercises. Perform essential jumps to create readiness, parity, agility, and balance towards the exhibition of jumping rope.

Main Goal

To show competency in different ways of body movement

To show an understanding of body movement strategies, concepts, and tactics as they apply to the learning and execution of physical exercises.

Numeracy: Learners are expected to several skills from the exercise including knowledge of numbers and figures; they learn to interpret in real-life mathematical problems, they can think logically and argue, develop their ability to remember, and to organize information through exercising and interacting with one another in activities. They also grow their visual perception of what they see. It also improves learners' calculation skills, understanding trends, language skills, the ability for logical thinking, as well as simple and complex computations

Problem Solving: Some of the problem-solving skills that the students will acquire from this exercise include time management, flexibility, self-control, and self-awareness

Students will also learn and gain self-awareness, self-control, and flexibility, other crucial aspects of communication

Communication Skills: The rope-jumping lesson is also essential to the students as they acquired various communication skills. The students can demonstrate these skills when interacting with each other as well as when talking to all teachers. The activity is crucial to the learners' cognitive growth and development. The students interact with one another in real-time through communication, enhancing activity communication, and learning at the same time

Materials List

Two or three 4 meter jumping ropes

Step-by-step Procedures explanation

The children will be engaged in a series of jumping activities using a rope. The activities will include the following;

Jump Rope Warm-Up and Stretch

Head circles (right and left)

Movement of the shoulders (forward and in reverse)

Arm hovers (forward and in reverse)

Touching toes

ONE Simplification of each activity for students who may be struggling

Jumping with two feet together

Extension of each activity for students who are gifted students who need a challenge

Jump Zigzag Jump Straddle Jump

Thread The Needle Swing

Exploratory Activity for the Aesthetic Domain for First Grade students

Drawing

Children love drawing. Whether in the classroom or at home, first-grade children can engage in drawing simple common things they see in their lives, including cats, chairs, cars, and many more.

Main Goal

Children aged three are at the preschematic stage of developing their drawing skills. Unlike toddlers who love scribbling things, first graders are starting to make more defined shapes. In preschool, children draw objects that look like people; this advances in the first grade.

Materials List

Pencils

Eraser

Pencil sharpener

A sketchbook

Drawing ink/pens

Colored soft pencils/crayons

Step-by-step drawing manuals

Blackboard and chalk

Step-by-step Procedures explanation

Set up the drawing-room with kids facing the blackboard

Have every kid having a complete set of requirements and ready to draw

Start by illustrating how to draw, say a frog

Draw the fro from start to finish as children watch and wait

Delete the drawn frog, it’s time for kids to draw.

Begin showing them how to draw a frog a fresh

Let it be in steps, and use the simplified images method, for example, start by drawing a circle for the boy, the circles for eyes, and ovals for ears.

Repeat the process until kids begin to grab how to draw a frog. 

Move to next item to be drawn.

ONE Simplification of each activity for students who may be struggling

Instead of drawing complex images like a frog, begin by drawing images. Let the struggling kids only draw circles, rectangles, straight lines, etc.

ONE Extension of each activity for students who are gifted students who need a challenge

For the children looking for more challenge, rearrange their desk to face away from the blackboard, and let them draw without looking at the blackboard. Alternatively, give them more challenging tasks or objects like a car with many features.

Demonstration Activity for the Aesthetic Domain for Second Grade students

Puzzles

Puzzles, riddles and word games are ideal aesthetic domain activities for enhancing kids creativity. They are not only fun, they are also challenging and what more, parents and teachers can play along.

Main Goal

When a child turns, flip, remove a piece of the puzzle, they are learning about eye-hand-coordination. For children aged 6-7, or 9 to 12, they have developed necessary fine skills. Most of them have developed eye and vision coordination skills. They are all able to identify certain pieces and make a connection. The children of this age have developed eye and hand coordination skills for playing simple puzzle games. They can manipulate the puzzles accordingly and fit it where it belongs. 

If a piece does not fit in its rightful place, it is set aside, but they will need this piece later when the time comes. The puzzles for ten-year-olds also helps the kids to set small goals and objectives for themselves. 

Materials List

Riddles

Word games

Puzzles

Step-by-step Procedures explanation

In a classroom, have the children sit in a group of fours

Ensure the children sit according to their abilities; the most developed kids sit together

Distribute the puzzles, and word games depending on the children abilities

Walk around to see the children enjoy the games, helping those stranded.

ONE Simplification of each activity for students who may be struggling

They will need at different stages or when starting to play to create their own strategy for winning the game in case they are playing against an opponent. For example, a simple strategy may be to pile all the pieces in terms of sizes, shapes, or colours.

ONE Extension of each activity for students who are gifted students who need a challenge

However, not all puzzles are the same; some are more complex than others are. There are puzzle games for 6-year-olds, and those meant for 12-year-olds. Such puzzle games are demanding, and they require more advanced brain work to play through the game successfully.

For example, kendoku puzzle games are suitable for the 9-12 year kids; on the other hand, they cannot be played by the 6-7-year-old kids because they are no able to figure it out. This motor skill is required for making the children develop a more robust thinking capacity. The complex jigsaw and other types of complex puzzles help the older children aged nine to twelve years enhance their memories. For example, they will need to recall the colors, sizes, and shapes of different pieces as they work through the puzzles.

Problem-Solving Activity for the Aesthetic Domain for Third Grade students

Coding

Coding is another perfect aesthetic domain activity for children aged between 10 and 12. Coding is an advanced activity, and third-grade students can only begin coding at a very basic level.

Main Goal

Coding is the right way for children aged nine and above can use to enhance their skills while at the same time, gaining technical skills, cognitive skills, critical and real-life skills. Coding requires basic knowledge of the computer; most six-year-olds are still learning about computer parts like using the mouse, using the keyboard, and other simple tasks on a computer. However, a ten-year-old has learned the computer basics, and can now use the computer at a much higher level, applications. At ten or twelve, the children can begin learning computer primary coding languages like Html. Coding calls for highly coordinated hand and finger movements, and they earn problem-solving and organizational skills. They also learn the ability to focus on a specific task and notice the fine details.

Materials List

Computer

The coding manual for kids

Internet

Step-by-step Procedures explanation

Have the parents subscribe for children coding lessons online, probably from codemoneky.com (for kids)

Have parents purchase basic coding manual for kids

The activity takes place in the computer labs for children

Teach the kids the basics of coding first, using the manuals

It is expected that the kids have basic computer knowledge at this stage

Using the codemonkey.com processes, the kids through each step, from one level to the next

Kids will learn at different rates, therefore move only to the next level once the first levels are completed

ONE Simplification of each activity for students who may be struggling

The struggling kids use simple text-based programming language. Advance to the complex actual programming languages as they improve. Use more of the gaming-like manner to make them understand.

ONE Extension of each activity for students who are gifted students who need a challenge

For the kids that require more challenging tasks, introduce them to more advanced coding languages like Python, Scratch 3.0 and Blocky coding languages.