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Saturday, April 18, 2020
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Thursday April 16th 2020
Good morning lovely KG1B!! I look forward to seeing you all today at 5:15!! I also look forward to seeing your show and tell :)
Breathing with Leen :)
Breathing with Latifa and her sister :)
Love you ritual with Ms. Reem and Teddy :)
Activity One Literacy (20 minutes)
Materials needed: computer, colored paper, stick/ straw, wiggly eyes/ marker, scissor.
Beginning: Remind your child of the letter for this week “Ww”. Ask them, “I wonder what activity we are doing to do now?”
Middle:
· Accept different answers
· Discuss the author and the illustrator’s work.
· Ask “What other ways can we use to keep our story books neat and clean?”
· Acknowledge their answers.
· Ask the child to give some rhyming words (from the story or made up words)
Extension: The child can create a wiggly worm.
End: Give your child a 5 minutes warning.
Ask if s/he would like to send a picture of the wiggly worm to their teacher.
Check the link below to have an idea but don’t copy it.. BE CREATIVE :)
Activity Two Math (10 minutes)
Materials needed: apples, bananas (or any fruits available at home) (not more than 10 each), pencil and paper
Beginning: Tell your child, “Today we are going to use apples and bananas in our activity, what do you think the activity will be about?
Middle:
· Be open to all answers
· Create/ print the graph paper
· Ask your child to count how many apples and bananas are there
· You may ask which fruit is more and which is less?
· color each square in accordance, for example there are 5 apples, the child colors 5 squares.
· Read the graph, for example, bananas are more than apples by 2 pieces.
Extension: You can ask your child to write the numbers they got using tally marks.
End: Give 5 minutes warning. Ask your child to help in tidying up.
Activity Three: Fine motor skills (5 minutes)
Materials: jacket/ shirt with buttons, or create your own felt material and buttons.
Ask your child to create a chain by doing the buttons and then s/he can unbutton it. 
Go Noodle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2XVfTzel8E
Article From Ms. Zarmeena,
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Wednesday April 15th 2020
Good morning Kg1B :)
Tomorrow we have Show and Tell at 5:15!! Also remember to check the tabs for specials.
Good morning Kg1B :)
Tomorrow we have Show and Tell at 5:15!! Also remember to check the tabs for specials.
Breathing with Lara
Butterfly and Alligator :)
Tip from Laith -
Coach Joe is so cool!! check it out for workouts :)
Coach Joe is so cool!! check it out for workouts :)
Love you ritual with Ms. Reem
Activity one: Math (20 minutes)
Geometry - 3D shapes. For this activity your child will learn more about what 3D shapes look like and what their names are.
I have added a song of me singing that I thought may be useful for your child.
Materials: Basically any objects around the house that look like a cylinder (food can), a sphere (ball), a cube (small box or ice cube), and a pyramid (ice cream cone or party hat.) If you have 3D shapes blocks even better :).
Vocabulary: Cylinder, sphere, cube, pyramid or cone.
Beginning:
Have the items in front of your child and say, “I wonder what shape this is?” and start describing the objects, the sides, and how it looks.
Listen to their responses and pause when they are observing the materials or objects.
Middle:
Name the objects and say, “I call this a sphere” Pause and listen to their responses. Work with the objects with your child and start building a structure.
Remember to use the vocabulary words as you are building the structure and state what they are doing.
For example, “I see you placed the pyramid on top of the cube.”
Have your child listen to the song I have attached below. Have fun singing it together with me :)
Extension: After finishing the structure have your child represent the structure by drawing it on a white piece of paper.
End: Give your child 5 minutes warning and encourage them to put the objects back where they belong.
Song attached here.
Activity two: Literacy (10 minutes)
Rhyming words game. For this activity your child will be to identify words that rhyme and words that don’t rhyme.
Remember a rhyming word is a word ending with the same sound. Such as cat and hat / or man and fan.
Materials: You may choose to print the picture attached, cut them out and flip them on the other side.
Or you may get creative and have items on the table covered with a box and they may open the box to see what is under (or inside?).
Vocabulary: Rhymes, same ending sound.
Beginning: You and your child may start by cutting out the paper attached.
Turn the picture upside down.
Say we have to match the rhymes together. Have your child pick the first card and say what is in the picture.
Say, “I wonder what rhymes with hat?”
Middle: Encourage your child to come up with their rhyming words and acknowledge it.
The more rhyming words they come up with the better even if it’s not the same rhyming word as in the picture.
Continue playing the game until you have found a match for each picture.
You may choose to mix the cards again and play it a few times.
Extension: Using the pictures or items, tell your child if they would like to make a story out of the items.
Start with saying a name, for example, “Wiggly” and say, “I wonder what Wiggly was wearing in your story.
Listen to their story and ask them open ended questions to add details to their story :)
End: Give your child 5 minutes warning, clean up together.
Activity three: Fine motor skills (5-7minutes)
Q tips and straws.
Give your child Q tips, you may want to color the Qtips on each side together.
Have them work with the colored Qtips and straws.
Ask them what you think they can do with these materials.
As you are working with your child you may stick the Qtip in the straw holes and let your child take them out to focus on their grips.
Give them a few minutes to work with the materials and listen to their observations and statements.
You would be surprised what they come up with. :)
Dance and movement (5 minutes)
Monday, April 13, 2020
Tuesday 14th April
Good morning KG1B :)
Alligator breathing with Ms. Reem
Love you rituals:
Activity 1 Science (20 minutes)
Creating Colors!
Materials: Paint recipe- only primary colors (here), paper and paintbrushes
Vocabulary: Experiment, observe and predict, primary colors (red, yellow and blue), secondary colors.
Beginning:
Today, we will be conducting an experiment. We will see what happens when we mix colors together. I wonder if you have any ideas (prediction)?
Middle:
Ask your child to dab blobs of each paint color onto their paper. Ask them to think about what these primary colors remind them of (e.g. red for fire, yellow for the sun, blue for the ocean).
Ask them- I wonder what would happen if we mixed some of these colors? Wait for their predictions.
On another piece of paper, ask your child to mix the colors- two at a time. Ask them to observe what is happening.
You may:
- Acknowledge their choice of colors they are mixing
- Support them by using the vocabulary words above
- Mention that the primary colors are getting mixed to form secondary colors.
Extension: You may ask your child to paint out a scene where they use both primary colors and secondary colors
End:
Give your child a 5 minute notice. Ask them to clean up and return their materials to their storage areas. Show them this video on secondary colors (here)
Activity 2 Math (10 minutes)
Spinners!
Materials- White cardstock paper if not available then you may use any thick paper or thin cereal box . A CD (or other similar sized circle object), scissors, a coin (for each spinner made) and markers.
Vocabulary: Longer, shorter, faster, slower, time, primary and secondary colors
Beginning:
Today, we will be making spinners! We will make at least two so we can compare how long we can spin them.
Middle:
Trace two circles using the CD's onto the cardstock paper.
Ask your child to color/decorate it as they wish. As they have just learnt about primary colors, it may be a good idea to ask them to only use primary colors for one of the spinners.
An adult should cut a slit in the middle of the circle, just long enough for a coin to be tucked in (it should be a snug fit). The coin will be perpendicular to the paper.
Fit a coin into the middle slit.
Ask your child to spin their spinner. You may spin yours.
You may:
- Acknowledge their choice of colors (primary or secondary) used
- Ask your child to observe the speed at which the spinners are moving, which is faster, which is slower?
- Ask your child to observe the length of time they spin. Which spins longer, which spins for a shorter time?
Extension: You may ask your child to count how long their spinner moves. They may count 1,2,3 etc. They can compare it with your count.
End:
Give them a 5 minute notice. Ask them to clear their areas and let the teacher know who had the fastest spinner!
Activity 3 Fine Motor skills (5 minutes)
Today, we will write the letter W (our letter for the week) using watermelon seeds (any seeds are fine)!
We will first fish the watermelon/lemon seeds out of their fruit. We will then use markers to color each of them. Careful- they will be slippery!
We will then glue each onto a paper in the shape of letters we know. Let’s start with the letter ‘W’!
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