Sunday, 19th April

Note: This Wednesday is 'Color Day.' Wear your favorite color for our 3:00 PM meeting on
Wednesday. Please also check the PE, Arabic and Performing Arts tabs for new lessons.

The time for our daily morning greeting (except for Wednesday when there is no morning greeting time) is at 11:30 AM.

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Activity 1: Mathematics (Making Sandwiches)

Materials: 2 slices of bread, honey/butter/labneh, a plastic knife, a plate

Duration: 15 Minutes

Vocabulary: Measure, tablespoon, teaspoon, whole, half, quarter

Beginning: Show the children all the ingredients and ask them what they think you are going to

make. Once they guess, ask them how much of the spread do they think would be needed to cover

the two slices of bread (prompt them to use standard measuring terms like 1 teaspoon/tablespoon/

cup etc.)

Middle:  Let the child scoop out the honey/butter/labneh one teaspoon at a time and count as he/

she goes.  Let him/her spread it on the two slices of bread and then keep the slices of bread on top

of each other to make a sandwich. Let the child cut the sandwich into half with the knife while

emphasizing the word, ‘Half’ so that they realize that two halves make one whole sandwich.

End: Ask the child to help you clean up by putting all the ingredients away.

Extension: You can ask the child to further cut the half sandwiches into two quarters and

introduce the word’ ‘Quarter’ to them.  Put all the four pieces together and say, ‘whole’, then put

only two pieces together and say, ‘Half’ and then finally, show only one piece and say, ‘Quarter’

so that the child learns that four quarters make a whole.

                                                            

                                  

Brain Break: Give the child a spoon to hold with one hand and place either a boiled egg or a small

ping pong ball on it and ask the child to walk while balancing the egg/ball on the spoon from one

corner of the room to another and back.

                                                                                          

 

Activity 2: Science Experiment (Invisible Lemon Ink)

Materials: Lemon juice, a few drops of water, cotton bud/Q-tip, any source of heat (hair dryer/iron

/light bulb)

Duration: 15 Minutes

Vocabulary: Experiment, cotton bud, invisible, appear, heat

Beginning: Show the materials to the children and let them know that you are going to do an

experiment that will magically make invisible words/ numbers/pictures appear on paper.

Middle: Let the children dip the cotton bud in the lemon juice and water mixture and then draw/

write something on the paper with it. They can write random letters, numbers or even draw a picture

. Wait for two minutes for the writing/drawing to completely disappear. Now take the paper to a hair

dryer or iron or a light bulb and make it hot by either blowing hot air on it or ironing it or bringing it

close to the light bulb for the writing to appear in brown color (Make sure an adult does this part of

the experiment)

End: Give the child a two minutes warning and then ask him/her to clean up with you by discarding

the cotton bud and the lemon water mixture and by cleaning up any spills on the table.

Extension: Next time encourage the child to write his/her name or a family member’s name or

some short random words with the invisible ink for them to appear when heated.

                                                

Materials required for Tomorrow's Activities:

Activity One:

Random letters written on sticky notes or small pieces of paper, glue sticks (if you are not using sticky notes)

Activity Two:

Leaves in different shapes and sizes (if you don’t have access to tree leaves, you can use molakhiya or lettuce or mint or spinach or any other leaves from your fridge), paints, paint brush, bowl, paper