Sunday, 12th April

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Please play the following video from Ms. Nazish:

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Activity 1:

Language & Literacy: Listening and comprehension, Book enjoyment and knowledge (Reading the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’)

Duration: 10-15 minutes

Materials: Book (The Very Hungry Caterpillar’) Link to the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoN5LbL5w0E&t=15s (In case you don’t have a hard copy of the book)

Vocabulary: Hungry, egg, days of the week, apple, pear, plum, strawberry, orange, cake, cone, pickle, cheese, salami, lollipop, pie, sausage, cupcake, watermelon, leaf, cocoon, butterfly, caterpillar, and sun.

Beginning: Ask the child to predict what they think the story is going to be about, then 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 go. Make them predict what they think will happen next in the story as you go through the book/video.

End: Encourage the child to recall four or more events that they remembered in the story, and remind them what they predicted, encourage them to think if their prediction was the same or different from what happened. Then ask the child questions related to the book such as “what happened in the beginning of the story, what food did the caterpillar eat and what happened in the end, ‘I wonder if you remember what the caterpillar changed into? What do you think would happen if we ate too much food?.” 

(The purpose of this activity is to encourage the child to listen and comprehend spoken and written words, recall story elements, the sequence of events and make predictions. This helps the child to connect what they hear and read to people and events in their own lives.)

Extension: You could give your child a piece of paper and pencil and ask them to draw what they remembered from the story or you could play the animated version of the book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NQK-Sm1YY&t=199s

Brain Break:

Give the child a paper plate plate/cushion or any other easy to balance object and ask him/her to walk to the other end of the room while balancing the object on his/her head.

Activity 2:

Math: Measurement & counting (Making cupcakes)

Duration: 15-30 minutes

Materials: flour, sugar/honey, baking powder, baking soda, milk, olive oil, vanilla, eggs, teaspoon, cup, bowl, cupcake liners, oven tray, wire whisk,

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

3/4 cup unrefined sugar, if frosting 1/2 cup will be sufficient, or (you could use Honey) 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 organic egg (eggless https://www.keepinglifesane.com/vanilla-cupcakes/)

1/4 cup olive oil

1 cup milk/ almond/ soy milk

2 teaspoons (real) vanilla extract

Vocabulary: flour, sugar, honey, baking powder, salt, milk, vanilla, eggs, water, teaspoon, cup, large bowl, mix, pour, scoop, whisk, oven gloves

Beginning: Preheat the oven to 350°F (176°C) Tell the child that today they will help you make some cupcakes.

Middle: Encourage the child to help you take all the ingredients to a table, explain what each item is, then have them help to measure, pour each ingredient into a large bowl, demonstrate how to whisk, beat the egg then have the child continue adding oil, milk, vanilla extract, and sugar. Add flour, baking powder, and baking soda. Then tell the child that the batter is ready to be scooped into cupcake liners. You may ask, I wonder how many cupcake liners do you think we need? They can guess and have them place them inside the tray then count how many there are.

Then have the child spoon the batter into the cupcake liners ideally 3/4 of the way, you can work alongside them demonstrating how much batter to add to each liner (you could allow them to do one too much and ask them I wonder what do you think will happen to that cupcake if we add a lot of batter?).

End: In the end explain to the child you will put them in the oven because it’s very hot, place the cupcakes in the oven for 10-12 minutes or until a tester comes clean, then remove immediately from the pan. Leave to cool down on a wire rack. Once they are cool you can have the child count how many people live in the house and take the same number of cupcakes on a plate for each member of the family.

(The purpose of this activity is to encourage the child to measure ingredients and count one to one correspondence)

Extension: You could add fruit, ice cream or cream to the cupcakes, you can be as creative as you like.

Materials Needed for Tomorrow's Activities:

Activity One:

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.

Activity Two:

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.