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.