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Crazy Hat Day Tomorrow:
Dear School Family,
We can't wait to see your crazy hats tomorrow! You just need to get an old one from your house and be creative with it. Use whatever materials you have at home to decorate your hats.
Please play the following morning greeting:
Click here for today's song:
Activity 1:
Math & Fine Motor – Making a tower
Duration: 10-15 minutes
Materials: Blocks/Lego, ruler/measuring tape.
Vocabulary: Blocks/Lego, tower, tall, big, bigger, biggest, small, smaller, smallest,
measure, length, count, more or less.
measure, length, count, more or less.
Beginning: Tell the child that today they will make a tower out of blocks and you wonder
who will make the tallest tower? (The adult works with her own material beside the child)
(If they choose to do something else it is ok.)
who will make the tallest tower? (The adult works with her own material beside the child)
(If they choose to do something else it is ok.)
Middle: As the child builds his/her tower notice the way in which he/she is stacking the
blocks i.e. “I see you are putting all the …blue blocks then you… or “I see you put blue,
green and then red, I wonder what you will put next.” Then encourage the child to count
how many blocks he or she used and compare who used more or fewer blocks.
blocks i.e. “I see you are putting all the …blue blocks then you… or “I see you put blue,
green and then red, I wonder what you will put next.” Then encourage the child to count
how many blocks he or she used and compare who used more or fewer blocks.
End: At the end ask the child whose tower looks taller/ shorter they may say their
tower is bigger you can tell them, “I wonder how we can measure whose tower is taller,"
Encourage them to help in deciding what they can use to measure if they need help you
can suggest a ruler. At the end of the activity give the child a 5-minute warning and then
have them clean up. You can sing a clean-up song or ask them if they could teach you one
while cleaning up.
(The purpose of this activity is to count one to one correspondence, use and understand tower is bigger you can tell them, “I wonder how we can measure whose tower is taller,"
Encourage them to help in deciding what they can use to measure if they need help you
can suggest a ruler. At the end of the activity give the child a 5-minute warning and then
have them clean up. You can sing a clean-up song or ask them if they could teach you one
while cleaning up.
measurement terms and more or fewer quantities.)
Extension: Your child could make 3 towers and let him/her compare. Use vocabulary:
long, longer, longest.
Vocabulary Words: Blocks, stack, big, small, tower, short, tall, count, more, few, less
long, longer, longest.
Vocabulary Words: Blocks, stack, big, small, tower, short, tall, count, more, few, less
Brain Break:
Activity 2:
Science & Creative Arts
Magic Milk Experiment and Marbled Milk Painting
Duration: 10-15 minutes
Materials: A deep dish/ tray, full-fat milk, earbuds, few drops of dishwashing liquid, 2/3
different colors of food coloring, paper, apron/smock.
different colors of food coloring, paper, apron/smock.
Vocabulary: Milk, earbuds, dish/tray, swirl, move/moving, mix, color/s marbled painting,
paper
paper
Beginning: Tell the child today they will make a Magic Milk experiment ask them to predict
what they think will happen when they mix everything together, ask “Why do you think it's
magic?
what they think will happen when they mix everything together, ask “Why do you think it's
magic?
Middle: While the child adds food coloring and dishwashing liquid, notice and repeat what
the child says, they may say it’s moving, ask them “I wonder what will happen if you add
more colors” etc.
the child says, they may say it’s moving, ask them “I wonder what will happen if you add
more colors” etc.
End: After noticing all the colors the child made and how the colors swirled in the milk and
asking them if their predictions were correct to give the child a 5-minute warning and
encourage them to clean up and wash their hands.
asking them if their predictions were correct to give the child a 5-minute warning and
encourage them to clean up and wash their hands.
(The purpose of this activity is to encourage the child to make predictions compare whether
they happened, allow them to observe and explain.)
they happened, allow them to observe and explain.)
Extension: Tell the child now they will make a marbled milk painting and ask them “I
wonder what will happen if we add paper”. Then encourage the child to dip the paper
into the milk, by placing the paper on the surface of the milk you can ask the child to
count to 5 and take the paper out and leave to dry.
Vocabulary Words: Experiment, magic, colorful, rainbow, whirl, mix etc.
Sample video from when my students did the experiment in the class last year:
wonder what will happen if we add paper”. Then encourage the child to dip the paper
into the milk, by placing the paper on the surface of the milk you can ask the child to
count to 5 and take the paper out and leave to dry.
Vocabulary Words: Experiment, magic, colorful, rainbow, whirl, mix etc.
Sample video from when my students did the experiment in the class last year:
Materials required for tomorrow's activities:
Activity One:
1-cup vinegar
3-4 tablespoons baking soda
1-teaspoon dish soap
Red food color or paint (optional)
Empty plastic bottle or cup
Activity Two:
1) Dot cards (Make them like the picture below)
2) Pompoms/buttons/coins etc. (whatever you have available at home)
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