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Educational Toys

The document is an application task for a teacher planning to open a progressive school. It provides a table to list 5 toys that will encourage creativity, critical thinking, abstract thinking and logical reasoning. The toys listed are: 1) Abacus to develop analytical skills and boost creativity. 2) See and Spell learning toys to develop sight reading, spelling, fine motor skills and critical thinking. 3) A musical instruments set to develop spatial reasoning, pattern awareness, counting skills and overall literacy. 4) Baby pop up animals to develop hand eye coordination, cause and effect reasoning and problem solving skills. 5) A play money set to improve fine motor skills, hand eye coordination and teach identifying bills/coins and

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Educational Toys

The document is an application task for a teacher planning to open a progressive school. It provides a table to list 5 toys that will encourage creativity, critical thinking, abstract thinking and logical reasoning. The toys listed are: 1) Abacus to develop analytical skills and boost creativity. 2) See and Spell learning toys to develop sight reading, spelling, fine motor skills and critical thinking. 3) A musical instruments set to develop spatial reasoning, pattern awareness, counting skills and overall literacy. 4) Baby pop up animals to develop hand eye coordination, cause and effect reasoning and problem solving skills. 5) A play money set to improve fine motor skills, hand eye coordination and teach identifying bills/coins and

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Name: Eunice Lei Yanit Course Code: EDUC 145

Year and Section: 1-A Date: May 6, 2021

Application Task

Scenario: You are a teacher / business owner who plans to put up a progressive school for children. Your
aim is to provide a learning environment that is fun, exciting and intellectually stimulating for your learners.
In doing so, you need to purchase (5) toys and educational playthings that will encourage creativity, critical
and abstract thinking and logical reasoning. Complete your list by filling out the matrix below.

Name of Toy Picture Cognitive Area It How it Helps Cognitive Development


Develops
Abacus It helps develop a Abacus allows a child to create a virtual
child’s analytical skills, image in his or her mind, which
boosts creativity, and improves memory and sharpens a
increases a child’s child's cerebral construction.
cofidence.

See and Spell Develop sight-reading See and spell learning toys create a
vocabulary, spelling visual and linguistic environment that
and fine motor skills can lead children to understand the
alphabet more efficiently. Toys such as
these give examples of animals,
objects and common words that
children at a young age can identify in a
fun way; this helps lead to an
improvement in vocabulary and their
motor identification skills along with it.
Each exercise or word becomes an
opportunity to think critically and make
decisions based on improving memory
recall and developing skills.
Musical Musical instruments Music engagement builds spatial
Instruments ignite all areas of child reasoning skills, pattern awareness,
Set development and skills and counting skills. Active involvement
for school readiness, in music provides opportunities to
including practice many important academic and
intellectual, social-emo pre-academic skills. Dancing to music
tional, motor, helps children build motor skills while
language, and overall allowing them to practice
literacy. It helps the self-expression. For children and
body and the mind adults, music helps strengthen memory
work together. skills.
Name: Eunice Lei Yanit Course Code: EDUC 145
Year and Section: 1-A Date: May 6, 2021

Baby Pop Up This popular hands on The pop up toys helps to develop hand
Animals activity toy introduces eye coordination simultaneously
animals, colors, and teaching baby about cause and effect.
shapes, while the Quickly baby will learn that in order for
engaging cause and a certain reaction an action needs to
effect play encourages occur; pull the toy, turn the knob. This
fine motor practice. is a great development toy to help with
problem solving skills.

Play Money Improves fine motor This set of play money includes
Set skills and hand-eye actual-size bills and accurately detailed
coordination. Helps coins. Children can work on identifying
develop the bills and coins and learn how to
problem-solving make change using addition and
abilities by subtraction skills, counting, fine motor
encouraging your child skills, and self-help skills.
to concentrate when
counting.

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