Thursday April 9, 2020

Ms. Reem's morning routine :)

Today is a special day for LANA - happy birthday Lana 😍💖

Leen's morning routine :)

I wish you well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9_li6cSB5o

Activity One literacy (20 minutes)

Materials needed: paper, glue, box, pencil.

Beginning: Parents print the template, cut the pictures and place them in a box or bowl. Tell the child “I wonder what the activity will be?”

Middle:

·         Acknowledge different answers/ guesses.

·         Ask the child to open the box and check the pictures.

·         Let the child name the pictures.

·         Stress on the beginning sound of each picture.

·         Divide a paper into halves, one side for the pictures that have the /j/ and the other for not /j/.

·         Paste pictures according to /j/ or not.

Vocabulary: juice- jar- jeep- jellyfish- jug-sort.

Extension: You can encourage the child to write the words of the pictures.

End: Give 5 minutes notice before the end of the activity. Ask the child if they would like to send a picture of the work to the teacher.

Activity Two Math (10 minutes)

Materials needed: Balloons (foil balls if not available) , markers, paper.

Beginning: Write a number on each balloon (1 -10) and hide them in the house.

Middle:

·         Tell your child, “We are going on balloon hunt.”

·         Let the child look and collect all the balloons.

·         Ask your child to read the number on each balloon.

·         Ask your child the throw and catch the balloon according to the number on the balloon.

·         Ask which number is bigger/ smaller? Is 5 bigger or smaller than 9?....

Extension: Ask the child to write from 1- 10 on a paper.

End: Give 5 minutes notice and you can ask the child to put balloon number 1 first and number 5 second and so on.

Vocabulary: number, bigger, smaller, order (one, two, three…).

  

 

  

Activity 3 (5 minutes)

Fine motor skills

Materials needed: cardboard- colored markers- colored straws or coloring pencils.

Parents or caregivers make holes on the cardboard and then the child has to insert sticks/ straws according to the color. By pushing the stick, s/he is working on intrinsic muscles of his/her hands and on attention to follow the color pattern.

Shake your sillies out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtsoBRcV-qE

Breathing :)

Article from Ms. Zarmeena :)

DEVELOPING MATHEMATICAL SKILLS IN EARLY YEARS