Please play the following morning greeting video from Ms. Nazish:
Click here for today's song
Activity 1:
Science: Cloud and Rain experiment
Duration: 10 – 15 minutes
Materials: A large jar/ see-through plastic cup or glass, white shaving cream (not a gel version),
small container or bowl with food coloring preferably blue. Pipettes or droppers
(Optional: More food colors)
small container or bowl with food coloring preferably blue. Pipettes or droppers
(Optional: More food colors)
Vocabulary: shaving cream, cloud, rain, dropper, blue, water, sky, raindrops
Beginning: In a small cup, mix the food coloring with some water. Fill the large jar with water until
it is about 3/4 full. Place the jar and the cups of colored water on the table. Place
a dropper in each cup of colored water. Tell the child today they will be doing an experiment
to see what happens when it rains.
it is about 3/4 full. Place the jar and the cups of colored water on the table. Place
a dropper in each cup of colored water. Tell the child today they will be doing an experiment
to see what happens when it rains.
Middle: Let the child work alongside the adult, the adult can spray a large amount of shaving
cream into the jar until it covers the top layer of the jar. Allow the child to do the same or use
the foam as they wish. Ask them what they think will happen when they add food coloring?
Demonstrate how to use the dropper, notice the child by describing what you see them doing,
and repeat what they say. Talk about the weather, what items they need if it starts to rain etc.
cream into the jar until it covers the top layer of the jar. Allow the child to do the same or use
the foam as they wish. Ask them what they think will happen when they add food coloring?
Demonstrate how to use the dropper, notice the child by describing what you see them doing,
and repeat what they say. Talk about the weather, what items they need if it starts to rain etc.
End: Compare the adults and child's work, encourage the child to explain why their work may
look different/the same. Give the child a 5-minute warning, tell them it's time to clean up, they
can help in cleaning any spillages with a paper towel etc. then encourage them to wash their
hands.
look different/the same. Give the child a 5-minute warning, tell them it's time to clean up, they
can help in cleaning any spillages with a paper towel etc. then encourage them to wash their
hands.
(The purpose of this activity is to encourage the child to make an experiment, make predictions
and draw conclusions whilst also using their fine motor skills.)
and draw conclusions whilst also using their fine motor skills.)
Extension: you could play a video about rain https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=QF4xWV7WEoc or sing a weather song such, rain, rain go away.
v=QF4xWV7WEoc or sing a weather song such, rain, rain go away.
Click here for a sample YouTube video of the experiment
Brain Break:
Activity 2:
Creative Arts, Math, & Fine motor – (Shape sponge painting)
Duration: 10-15 minutes
Materials: Kitchen or bath sponges, paper, Tempera or poster paint (for painting on paper),
Acrylic or fabric paint, black marker, plastic plates or trays, scissors, apron/smock, optional,
cotton buds, or paintbrush.
Acrylic or fabric paint, black marker, plastic plates or trays, scissors, apron/smock, optional,
cotton buds, or paintbrush.
How to make the shape sponges: Draw shapes on old or new sponges and cut them out, allow
the child to use them as shape stamps.
the child to use them as shape stamps.
Vocabulary: sponge, shape, stamp, dip, paint, press, left, circle, square, triangle, rectangle,
star, heart, flower
star, heart, flower
Beginning: Tell the child that today they will be making a picture using shape sponges and
you wonder how they will use the shapes. The child may say what they will do.
you wonder how they will use the shapes. The child may say what they will do.
Middle: Support the child by working alongside him/her, using vocabulary to describe their
work. You can make a house using a rectangle and a triangle for a roof, notice how the child
is using the stamps and ask them “I see you….I wonder what you will make next?”
work. You can make a house using a rectangle and a triangle for a roof, notice how the child
is using the stamps and ask them “I see you….I wonder what you will make next?”
End: Give the child a 5-minute warning, then encourage the child to help put all the stamps
together on one of the plastic plates/tray and wash their hands.
together on one of the plastic plates/tray and wash their hands.
(The purpose and benefits of this activity is to encourage self-expression with paint, hand,
eye coordination, fine motor development, experimenting and exploring with a new paint tool,
the sensory experience of exploring paint and paint-filled sponges.
eye coordination, fine motor development, experimenting and exploring with a new paint tool,
the sensory experience of exploring paint and paint-filled sponges.
Extension: You could compose and decompose shapes and let the child describe his/her work.
Materials needed for Tomorrow's Activities:
Activity One:
A blank sheet of paper, glue stick, shapes like square, circle, triangle, etc. cut out of any paper (colored
or white). Further cut the shapes from the middle so that they are cut into two halves like the picture
below:
or white). Further cut the shapes from the middle so that they are cut into two halves like the picture
below:
Activity Two:
Toy land animals and sea animals (If you do not have toy animals, print out small pictures of both kinds of animals), paper, pencil, two bowls or containers, glue stick (optional).
Note - If you don't have the printer option then you can use any two different kinds of toy animals like dinosaurs etc.
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