Thursday, 30th April

Today is the last day of the academic year and what a year it has been Pre-K A! I could not have asked for a better group of students. I will miss you all immensely. The following poem expresses my emotions very well! All the best for the future. Stay safe and have a great summer break! Goodbye!💜

Ms. Nazish

Note: Please check this link for lots of summer activity ideas. You will see packets full of age-appropriate activities for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. 

Kindly note that our last morning greeting session will take place at 11:30 AM today!

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Activity 1: Language and Literacy (Alphabetic Knowledge) Alphabet Soup Match

Materials: Plastic/wooden letters or (any water-resistant objects with upper case letters written on it such as small wooden blocks/Lego), spoon/ tongs, water, large container, cookie tray, marker.

Vocabulary: letter names, phonic letter sounds, scoop, spoon, soup, match, container, tray

Beginning: Tell the child, today they will be making alphabet soup, and say, “I wonder what letters you will find?”

Middle: Encourage the child to scoop out all the letters and while they take each letter out, ask them which letter it is, and ask them if they can think of something that begins with the same letter. 

End: At the end have the child match all the plastic letters to the ones written on the tray, give them a 5-minute warning and then have them help clean up.  

Duration: 10- 15 minutes 

Extension: You and the child can play the game ‘I Spy’ by saying I spy with my little eye something beginning with a letter e.g.  ‘A’ then you have to guess what object they are thinking about, then take it in turns. You could also sing the ABC song. 

Brain Break

Can you walk in a straight line while balancing a small pillow/cushion/bean bag on your head? Count and see how long you have the object on your head before it falls off

Activity 2: Math (Data analysis) Graph a sock

   

Materials: 6 Pairs of socks (you can add more later), basket/container for socks, colored tape or large white easel paper with graph lines drawn on it, ruler, marker, small square paper, pencil

Vocabulary: sort, same, different, match, more, less, most, mostly least, pattern, spots, strips, stripy, numbers, color names.

Beginning: Tell the child, today they will be sorting socks and wonder what color/pattern socks they have most, ask them what they think? Explain that you will be using a graph to find out. Work alongside them making a graph of your own.

Middle: Encourage the child to sort the socks according to colors or patterns and ask them “I wonder where you will put the blue sock? Stripy etc? I see you put… together, I wonder where do you think this sock goes? If a sock has more than one color ask them is it mostly … or … let them decide.

End: Once the child has placed all socks on the graph have them guess which column has the most/least, then tell them let’s find out. Encourage the child to count how many socks there are in each column then have them write tally marks or have them write the number of socks per column on a small piece of paper and put them above each column and compare them which is more, less etc.. Give the child a 5-minute warning and have them help clean up putting all the socks into the basket.

Duration: 10-15 minutes 

Extension: You could have the child count or pair all the socks. 

Wednesday, April 29

Good Morning Pre K - A! It's Pattern day today!

Wear any pattern (stripes, dots, or checks) for our meeting at 3:00 PM). Kindly note there is no morning greeting session today.

Note: Please check the Mandarin tab for the last lesson for this academic year 😊

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Activity 1: Mathematics: Balloon Number Hunt 

Materials: Balloons or (Foil crumpled into balls), marker, paper

Vocabulary: number, count, more, less, hunt, order, under, beside, behind, front, top, bottom

Beginning: Start writing numbers (1 – 5) on the balloons. Let your child help you write numbers

or let him/her draw a different number of tally marks on each balloon. Then hide the balloons all

over the house.

Middle: Tell your child, “Today we are going on a balloon hunt.” Let him/her search and collect balloons.

End: Give 3 minutes warning. Your child may identify and name the numbers. He/she may count

the tally marks and say the total number.

Duration: 10 - 15 minutes

Extension: Your child could hunt up to 10 number balloons or he/she may compare tallies on the

balloons and state which balloon has more/fewer tallies. 

Brain Break: How many of the following poses can you do?

Activity 2: Science & Fine Motor Skills: Ice Painting

Materials: Bowl, ice cubes, paint, paintbrush

Vocabulary: experiment, ice cube, cold, melting, round, back and forth, paint, temperature

Beginning: Place the materials on the table. Let your child explore, touch, feel, and describe. Then

say, “Today we will paint the ice cubes.”

Middle: Let him/her experiment. You may ask, “I wonder what will happen to the paint color once

you paint the ice.” Wait for the response. Say, “I can see the ice is melting.” or “The color of ice is changing.” 

End: Give 3 minutes warning. You may describe his/her actions and acknowledge your child's ideas.

Duration: 15 minutes

Extension: Next time your child could freeze the colored ice cubes by adding food color and water

in the ice tray. Put your popsicle sticks into the color water. Once frozen, he/she may paint it on the

paper.

Materials required for tomorrow's activities:

Activity One: Plastic/wooden letters or (any water-resistant objects with upper case letters written on it such as small wooden blocks/Lego), spoon/ tongs, water, large container, cookie tray, marker.

Activity Two: 6 Pairs of socks (you can add more later), basket/container for socks, colored tape or large white easel paper with graph lines drawn on it, ruler, marker, small square paper, pencil

Tuesday, April 28

Good Morning! 🌤

Note: Please check the PE tab for the last lesson for the year 😊 Morning greeting time will be at 11:30 AM today and Small Group Time for Group 'C' (Al Jawharah, Faisal Essa, Faisal Al Saud, Anoud, Lulu, and Emad) will take place at 3:00 PM.

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Activity 1: Science (Oil and Water Experiment)

Materials: Baby oil or vegetable oil, washable liquid watercolors or food coloring, cups (preferably clear cups or glasses) and droppers (you can use a medicine dropper)

Vocabulary: Oil, water, mix, stir, soluble, droplets

Beginning: Show the materials to the children and ask them what they will be doing with them. Let them dip their finger in water and then oil to notice the difference in the two liquids.

Middle: Let the child pour water in two cups and add two different food colors or liquid watercolors to the water. Then let him/her stir to combine. In a third cup pour oil until the cup is half full. Now with the dropper let the child drip a little bit of colored water from the two cups of colored water into the cup of oil. Let them explore what happens when the drops of colored water drip into the oil. Bring attention to the fact that oil and water droplets are not mixing. Ask them the reason why and acknowledge their answers.

End: Give the child a two to three minutes warning and then ask them to help you clean up by discarding the colored water and the oil and by wiping away any spills.

Duration: 15 minutes

Extension: You can make a lava lamp based on the same concept. Here is a link for the experiment:

https://funlearningforkids.com/super-cool-lava-lamp-experiment/

Brain Break: Write random letters on disposable cups like in the picture and ask your child to kick the ball to specific letters.

   

                                

Activity 2: Math (Patterns) - Fruit kabobs

Materials: Any two kinds of fruits cut up into small pieces on a plate (watermelon/melon/pineapple/banana/apple/orange etc.), wooden bbq skewers/sticks/chopsticks

Vocabulary: Pattern, alternate, next, before, after

Beginning: Show the sticks/skewers and the fruits to the child and ask him/her what can they do with the materials?

Middle: Sit next to the child and start putting the fruit pieces on your stick by following a certain pattern (For example, orange, orange, apple, orange, orange, apple, orange, orange, apple, and so on). You can ask the child what kind of pattern he/she is going to make. Encourage them to follow a specific pattern by saying out the name of the fruit they put on the skewer (For example, “I can see you put on a strawberry then watermelon then again strawberry. I wonder what will come next?)

End: Give the child a two to three minutes warning before the end of the activity and then ask him/her to help you clean up. The child may eat his/her fruit kebob at the end of the activity.

Duration: 15 minutes

Extension: You can give the child three fruits instead of two to make a more complex pattern (for example, apple, orange, strawberry, apple, orange, strawberry, apple, orange, strawberry and so on)

 Materials required for Tomorrow's Activities:

Activity One:

Balloons or (Foil), marker, paper  

Activity two:

Bowl, ice cubes, paint, paintbrush                           

Monday, April 27

Note: Kindly check the French tab for a new lesson. Morning greeting session will take place at 11:30 AM today.


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Activity 1: Science and Technology

Materials: Heavyweight paper, variety of collage materials with different textures (for example,


cotton, sand paper, fabric pieces, feathers, aluminum foil) or any materials (with different textures)

that you have at home.


Vocabulary: Soft, rough, shiny, smooth, hard or bumpy.


Beginning: Introduce the collage materials, and encourage your child to touch and describe the

feeling. Model descriptive words such as: soft, rough, shiny, or bumpy.


Middle: Encourage the child to create a collage with the materials. Use the materials to create


your own collage too. As you are working, continue to describe your work and the materials you


are using. Encourage the child to think of other things in the house that are similar to the


materials he/she is using; “This aluminum foil is shiny, what else is shiny?”. Listen and acknowledge

what the child is saying.


End: Give your child a five-minute warning. Ask him/her to help you put away the materials back


to their place. Talk to your child about his/her collage. Ask open ended questions such as: “I


wonder what you did”.


Duration: 10-15 minutes


Purpose: The purpose of this activity is to use our senses to sort objects by different properties.


Also, classifications help children organize their understanding of the world.









Extension: Go on a treasure hunt around the house. Find items with similar attributes, for example, things that feel soft, rough, slippery, or mushy etc.

Brain Break:

Put your child's favorite music on and let him/her dance freely to burn energy and to feel active.

Activity 2: Math (Counting and number Recognition)

Materials: 3 jars or any containers, 10 x 1 SAR bills, 4 x 5 SAR bills, and 3 x 10 SAR bills (if


you don’t have bills, you could find pictures and print the amount needed)


Vocabulary: Money, buy, purchase, exchange, value, amount, add, etc.


Beginning: Remember to disinfect the bills before using. Show each bill and ask them its value


(1, 5 or 10 SAR?). Ask your child what money is used for. Listen and acknowledge what they


say by adding to their vocabulary new words such as, exchange, value, buy, purchase, etc.


Middle: Tell your child you’re going to mix all the bills and then sort them into 3 different


containers. The 1SAR bills in a jar, 5SAR bills in another and the same goes for the 10SARS.


Encourage your child to count the number of bills in total and begin sorting them into the


containers.


End: Give your child a 3 minutes warning. Ask your child to compare which jar has more bills


and encourage him/her to say how many more.


Duration: 10-15 min









Extension: Create a pretend play scenario where you own a shop and are selling the objects in the

house. Encourage your child to pick out an object he/she would like to “buy” and after telling


him/her the price (not more than 10 SAR). Then, help your child figure out what and how many


bills to give you in exchange for that object.



Materials Needed for Tomorrow's Activities:


Activity One:

Baby oil or vegetable oil, washable liquid watercolors or food coloring, cups (preferably clear cups or glasses) and droppers (you can use a medicine dropper)

Activity Two:

Any two kinds of fruits cut up into small pieces on a plate (watermelon/melon/pineapple/banana/apple/orange etc.), wooden bbq skewers/sticks/chopsticks

Sunday, 26th April

                                               

                                   

Good Morning! 🌤

Note: Morning greeting time will be held at 11:30 AM today. Group A (Moudi, Noura, Basim, Muneera, Chenchen, Khaled) will do small group at 3:00 PM and Group B (Turki, Saud, Salman, Mishael, Leia and Filwa) will do it at 3:30 PM. See you there! 😊

Kindly check the PE and Arabic tabs for new lessons.

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Activity 1: Language & Literacy 

Materials: The Cat Secrets book Or

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d99fPGPqjQ

Vocabulary: Secret, title, author, whisper, attention, shame, purr, reveal, etc.

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 above)

Middle: Turn the volume on or read the words in the book if you have a hard copy. Acknowledge children’s ideas as you read the book. Encourage them to pretend to be a cat. Ask them to purr like a cat and make animal sounds (“Meow”). Ask your child to predict what may happen next in the story as you go through the book/video. (while pausing the video in between)

End: Recall at least three things that happened in the story. Encourage them to use words such as “first”, “then” and “next”. Ask him/her questions related to the book such as: “I wonder what the cat secrets may be.”

Duration: 10-15 min

Extension: Ask your child to pretend to make sounds like the animals mentioned in the book and to stretch like a cat, a dog, or tip toe like a mouse etc.

Brain Break:

Try balancing yourself on your right leg with the left leg up and then on the left leg with the right leg up. Count to see how long you can stand on each leg without losing your balance.

Activity 2: Creative Arts/Fine motor

Materials: any materials that you may have to make jewelry such as Pipe colored cleaners, ribbons, paper foil, twist ties, rubber bands, beads, paper clips, shoe laces, feathers, glue.

Vocabulary: Tiara, crown, palace, queen, reception party, gala, fancy, jewelry, etc.

Beginning: You can start by making up a story that you are invited to a reception party by the queen at her palace. Ask your child what she/he thinks the queen, the king, the princes, and the princesses will be wearing. Listen and acknowledge what your child is saying and mention the words “golden crown”, “silver tiara”, “diamond watch”, etc. Encourage your child to imagine what the guests at the party are wearing.

Middle: Show your child the materials and say, “I wonder what kinds of sparkly jewelry you’ll make for the reception party”. Describe what the child is making, how she/he is combining and attaching the materials. Ask your child questions about the texture, color, size, etc.

End: Give your child a five-minute warning. Ask him/her to describe his/her work and how he/she is going to wear it.

Duration: 15 minutes

Extension: Bring more jewelry-making materials in the art area. Use brochures or any pictures of jewelry for men and women. If you have extra clothes, you can bring and adjust them for your child’s pretend play to wear when they go to the party.

Materials needed for Tomorrow's Activities:

Activity One:

Paper, variety of collage materials with different textures (for example, cotton, sand paper, fabric pieces, feathers, aluminum foil) or any materials that you have at home

Activity Two:

3 jars or any containers, 10 x 1 SAR bills, 4 x 5 SAR bills, and 3 x 10 SAR bills (if you don’t have bills, you could find pictures and print the amount needed)