Thursday March 26,2020
Good morning KG1 B
Love you ritual
Activity 1 Reading: (20 minutes)
Beginning: Tell your child to choose one of two story books she/he has at home.
Middle:
Go through the pictures in the book.
· Look at the pictures in the front and back of the story.
· Introduce the author and the illustrator to your child.
· Ask “What do you think will happen next?”
· Ask “Why do you think something happened?”, “What do you predict the ending will be?”
· Read the story book to your child.
· Give the child paper, pencil, and coloring pencil to draw his /her favorite part of the story.
· Talk about the character(s) characteristics and why they feel the way they do.
End: Give your child a 5 minutes warning. Ask him/her to add the story to their library so s/he can return to it whenever the child wants.
Beginning:
Give your child a plastic bottle, rice, beans, pasta, and a spoon.
Middle:
· Ask your child to fill the empty bottle with any ingredient she/he wants or she/he can use all.
· Tape the lid of the bottle and enjoy the musical rhythm
End:
Decorate the bottle. Use it as a musical instrument.
Activity 3 Creative arts: (7 minutes)
Beginning: Give your child different art materials, like: markers, coloring pencils, glitter, glue stick, paper, paint…
Middle:
· Acknowledge what the child is saying about his/ her drawing.
· Encourage your child to add details to their work.
End:
Give five minutes warning. Ask the child if s/he would like to send a picture of the drawing to the teacher or hang it somewhere at home.
Dance and movement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSDxhF6GIUU
ACTIVE LEARNING
“Active learning is defined as learning in which the child, by acting on objects and interacting with people, ideas, and events, constructs new understanding. No one else can have experiences for the child. Children must do this for themselves.” - Mary Hohmann & David P. Weikart
The HighScope Curriculum is distinguished from other curriculums by its importance on “Active Learning”. That means learning is not simply a process of adults giving information to the children. Rather, the children are active learners- discovering things through active involvement with people, objects, events and ideas. They learn best from following their own interests while being actively supported and challenged by adults. In the classroom, the teachers are as active and involved as the children. They give thoughtful attention to the materials they provide, the activities they plan, and the ways they talk with the children to both support and challenge what the children are experiencing and thinking. This approach is called “Active Learning” – a process in which the adults and the children are partners in the learning process.
Active Learning has five ingredients, all of which must be present when the teachers plan an activity for the children. These five ingredients are:
1. Materials: The adults provide enough materials of children’s interest. For Instance, the children like to play with cars, or dinosaurs etc. Then these objects may be used for sorting, classifying or counting activities to develop mathematical skills.
2. Manipulation: The children have opportunities to explore and transform the materials they choose to use. For instance, the adults do not demonstrate how to use the materials. If a child does not want to count the cars but he/she is sorting them by colors then he is given a choice to do so. The child is still learning a mathematical skill by classifying the cars by their colors.
3. Choice: The children choose materials and play partners and plan their activities according to their interests and needs. For instance, a child chooses to play in the block center with the cars only with a certain person.
4. Child language: The children describe verbally or nonverbally what they see and do. For instance, in an activity, if the adult is doing all the talking the child becomes distracted and impatient; therefore no learning is taking place. When a child talks about what they are doing, they modify their thinking to take new learning in account.
5. Adult Scaffolding: The adults support the children’s current developmental level and offer gentle extension to advance their abilities to reason, create and problem-solve. For instance, using the same example, if a child does not want to count the cars but he/she is sorting them by colors then the adult may encourage him/her to count the sorted colored cars and discover which is more and less.
Family involvement is a key aspect of “Active Learning”. The teachers are experts in child development and the parents are experts on their children. Working together will lead to a happier and successful child. Just as children engage in active learning throughout the class, they can do the same at home when parents incorporate learning into different parts of the day. The children’s homes can be extensions of the classroom and therefore can be natural learning environments. Family members can use the home environment to build on learning; for example, supporting math concepts my naming the shape of common household objects, such as round plates, or counting the stair steps on the way to a room. The parents may also provide their children with activities keeping in mind the five ingredients of Active Learning.
Article from Ms. Zarmeena:
ACTIVE LEARNING
“Active learning is defined as learning in which the child, by acting on objects and interacting with people, ideas, and events, constructs new understanding. No one else can have experiences for the child. Children must do this for themselves.” - Mary Hohmann & David P. Weikart
The HighScope Curriculum is distinguished from other curriculums by its importance on “Active Learning”. That means learning is not simply a process of adults giving information to the children. Rather, the children are active learners- discovering things through active involvement with people, objects, events and ideas. They learn best from following their own interests while being actively supported and challenged by adults. In the classroom, the teachers are as active and involved as the children. They give thoughtful attention to the materials they provide, the activities they plan, and the ways they talk with the children to both support and challenge what the children are experiencing and thinking. This approach is called “Active Learning” – a process in which the adults and the children are partners in the learning process.
Active Learning has five ingredients, all of which must be present when the teachers plan an activity for the children. These five ingredients are:
1. Materials: The adults provide enough materials of children’s interest. For Instance, the children like to play with cars, or dinosaurs etc. Then these objects may be used for sorting, classifying or counting activities to develop mathematical skills.
2. Manipulation: The children have opportunities to explore and transform the materials they choose to use. For instance, the adults do not demonstrate how to use the materials. If a child does not want to count the cars but he/she is sorting them by colors then he is given a choice to do so. The child is still learning a mathematical skill by classifying the cars by their colors.
3. Choice: The children choose materials and play partners and plan their activities according to their interests and needs. For instance, a child chooses to play in the block center with the cars only with a certain person.
4. Child language: The children describe verbally or nonverbally what they see and do. For instance, in an activity, if the adult is doing all the talking the child becomes distracted and impatient; therefore no learning is taking place. When a child talks about what they are doing, they modify their thinking to take new learning in account.
5. Adult Scaffolding: The adults support the children’s current developmental level and offer gentle extension to advance their abilities to reason, create and problem-solve. For instance, using the same example, if a child does not want to count the cars but he/she is sorting them by colors then the adult may encourage him/her to count the sorted colored cars and discover which is more and less.
Family involvement is a key aspect of “Active Learning”. The teachers are experts in child development and the parents are experts on their children. Working together will lead to a happier and successful child. Just as children engage in active learning throughout the class, they can do the same at home when parents incorporate learning into different parts of the day. The children’s homes can be extensions of the classroom and therefore can be natural learning environments. Family members can use the home environment to build on learning; for example, supporting math concepts my naming the shape of common household objects, such as round plates, or counting the stair steps on the way to a room. The parents may also provide their children with activities keeping in mind the five ingredients of Active Learning.
Regards,
Ms Zarmeena Aamir
Have a wonderful weekend! See you Sunday :)
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