Thurs. 19/03/2020
Message from Ms. Leyla
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Activity 1: Mathematics:
Patterning
Duration: 10 minutes
Materials: forks, spoons
Beginning: Let the children know that
they will be making patterns. You can start forming an alternating pattern with
a fork and a spoon (Fork - spoon - fork - spoon)
Middle: Ask the child to continue the
pattern you started.
End: Encourage the child to make
his/her own pattern.
(It can be a simple pattern:
Fork-spoon-fork-spoon-fork-spoon..
Or
It can be a complex pattern:
Fork-fork-spoon-fork-fork-spoon-fork-fork-spoon
…)
Brain
Break!
Or
Activity 2: Science: Making play dough
Duration: 15-20 minutes
Materials:
·
2
cups all-purpose flour
·
3/4
cup salt
·
4
teaspoons cream of tartar
·
2
cups warm water
·
2
Tablespoons of vegetable oil
·
Food
colouring (optional)
·
Quart
sized bags to store
Procedure: Let the children mix and
knead all the ingredients together.
This is a multipurpose activity that
helps children measure (Mathematics), experiment and predict (Science) and use
the muscles in their hands to knead and squeeze. (Fine motor skills)
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Wed.18/03/2020
Message from Ms. Leyla
Activity 1: Language & Literacy: Name writing
Duration: 10 minutes
Materials: Pencil, paper
Beginning: You write down your child’s name on
the paper (First letter upper case and the rest lower case).
Middle: The child copies his/her name. (If
he/she is able to write the first name without looking, you may encourage
him/her to write the last name or the name of a family member)
End: Talk about each letter of their name
and its sound.
Brain break!
Activity 2: Fine motor skills: Lacing
Duration: 10- 15 minutes
Materials:
1) Pipe cleaner/shoelace/ a piece of yarn/ string
(any one of these)
2) Penne pasta/ beads with holes/ cheerio’s (any
one of these)
Beginning: Let the children know that they will
be lacing pasta on to the string.
Middle: Let the children lace the pasta one by
one by passing the string through the hole of each pasta piece.
End: Acknowledge their ideas. You may count
how many pasta pieces there are on the string.
(This activity helps children develop their fine motor
muscles and also their hand-eye coordination).
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Tues. 17/03/2020
Message from Ms. Leyla
Activity 1: Creative art: Draw your family
Duration: 10-15 minutes
Materials: Crayons or coloured pencils, paper
Beginning: Start the activity by talking
about the family members. Discuss their features/similarities and differences.
Middle: The children draw each family member.
End:
Talk about the shape of their faces, their height, hair, colour of the eye etc.
Brain break!
Activity 2: Pretend Play: Re-enactment of the story ‘We’re
Going on a Bear Hunt.’
Duration: 10 minutes
Pretend to go on a hunt of your own. Ask the child what he/she is hunting for.
The children can be very creative with their imagination.
Pretend to hunt for whatever they suggested.
Pretend to cross all the hurdles mentioned in the book.
The children can suggest some other hurdles of their own to cross.
In the end, when they find whatever animal they were hunting for, pretend to run away from it by crossing all the hurdles again.
The children can be very creative with their imagination.
Pretend to hunt for whatever they suggested.
Pretend to cross all the hurdles mentioned in the book.
The children can suggest some other hurdles of their own to cross.
In the end, when they find whatever animal they were hunting for, pretend to run away from it by crossing all the hurdles again.
You can support your child by following the links below:
(This activity helps the children develop their imagination, language and the skill to recall what happened in the story)
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Mon. 16/03/2020
Activity 1: Mathematics: Counting
Duration:
10-15
Minutes
Materials: Cereal
(cheerio’s, fruit loops etc), bowl
Beginning: Put a
spoon full of cereal into a bowl. Let the children know that they will be
counting the cereal as they eat.
Middle: The
child starts eating the cereal. He/she counts as he/she puts each individual
cereal piece into their mouth.
End: You ask
them how many pieces are left in the bowl each time they put one in the
mouth.
(This
activity helps children count and learn to subtract)
Activity 2: Science: Experiment
Duration: 15-20 Minutes
Duration: 15-20 Minutes
Materials: Paint (any
two colours), paint brush, paper, bowl
Beginning: The
children would be mixing two colours of paint. Ask them, “What they think would
happen if they mix the two colours?”
Middle: Let
them mix and say, “I can see the colour is changing”. Acknowledge their ideas.
End: Give
them paper and let them paint.
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Sun. 15/03/2020
Activity 1: Language & Literacy: Reading
Duration: 15-20 minutes
Duration: 15-20 minutes
Materials: Book (We're Going on a Bear Hunt)
Beginning: Go through the pictures in the book without
reading the words. (Mute the video if you do not have a hard copy of the book
and are watching the video. The link to the video is provided below)
Middle: Turn the volume on or read the words
in the book if you have a hard copy. Acknowledge children’s ideas as you go.
Make them predict what may happen next in the story as you go through the
book/video.
End: Recall the story. Ask and answer the
questions related to the book.
Link to the book: (In case you don’t have a hard
copy of the book)
Activity 2: Fine motor skills: Transferring with a Spoon
Duration: 15 minutes
Activity 2: Fine motor skills: Transferring with a Spoon
Duration: 15 minutes
Materials: a spoon, rice/ small pasta/ beans, two
bowls
Beginning: Introduce the activity by telling the
children that they would be transferring the rice/ small pasta/ beans from one
bowl to another using the spoon.
Middle: The child transfers the materials from
one bowl to another.
End: Let them transfer it back to the first
bowl.
(This activity helps
with the development of fine motor skills as well as hand-eye coordination)
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