Hello parents,
Please check a very useful article and video from the Early Years Coordinator, Ms. Zarmeena under the 'Tips from the Coordinator' tab above. Thanks!
Play the following morning greeting message from Ms. Nazish:
Activity One:
Literacy: Letter hunt
Duration: 10-15 Minutes
Materials: 10 plastic or wooden letters including the first letter of the child’s name and family members' names. E.g. (A, B, C, H, M, L, R, S, T, K) you can add more letters later to further the child’s interest as a backup. (if you don’t have plastic or wooden letters you could make your own by writing letters on a 1-inch thick piece of card or on cardboard and cut the letters out), rice or sand, tongs/spoon, deep medium-sized bowl
Beginning: Put letters into a bowl and pour rice over the top, making sure the letters are hidden. Tell the child today for our activity we have a bowl with rice and a pair of tongs. I wonder what you will do with it?
Middle: The child may start to pick up the tongs and begin searching through the rice. When they pick out a letter, ask them, I wonder what letter that is? Do you know the sound of that letter? Whose name begins with the letter…?
End: Ask the child to help you pack the materials away.
Extension: As an extension, you could pick a few letters for e.g. B & M, and ask them “ I wonder if you can find things in the house that begin with the same letter/sound?”
(This activity helps your child with letter recognition).
Sample Pictures:
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| Magnetic Letters |
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| Finding letters with the help of tongs/chopsticks/spoon |
Brain Break:
Activity Two:
Fine Motor Skills/Math (Cutting around shapes with scissors)
Duration - 10 - 15 minutes
Materials - A piece of paper with a square, rectangle and triangle drawn on it (big enough for the child to cut. Otherwise, draw two shapes on one paper and the third one on another sheet).
Beginning - Show the paper with the shapes on it to the child and ask him/her what shapes they see in front of them. Hand the scissors to the child and ask him/her to cut all the shapes one by one.
Middle - Make sure that the child has a proper grip on the scissors and let him/her cut all the shapes out.
End - Once the child has cut out the three shapes, talk to them about their properties (For example, how many sides/points does a triangle, rectangle/square have?)
Extension - Have the child draw his/her own shapes and cut around them
Sample Pictures:
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| Cut around the shapes |
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| Talk about the properties of the shapes (How many sides?) |
Pictures of students doing the activities from the first two weeks (Please keep
them coming 👍)
Materials needed for Sunday's activities:
Activity One:
Book (The Cat in The Hat)
Link to the book: (In case you don’t have a hard copy of the book )
Activity Two:
Paper
pencil
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