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

·         Play the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oes1PE58WQE

·         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 :) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMAPpjdWQq8

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.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VjKswY84zEhH7P7GnYuNVFkFvDdSVYqP/view?usp=sharing

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,