Monday March 23rd > Activities

Dear Parents: Please check the tab under the name "Conscious Discipline" I have posted a new video from our school counselor. 

Small Group Activity:  Counting Approximate Time: 15 minutes

Materials Needed: ·      Bowl ·      Rice or Sand ·      Small objects, like pompoms, small cars, small animals, pebbles (you can choose one or two objects)

Vocabulary: Count, hidden, numbers 1 – 15, more, less, few

How to start the activity: ·      Provide all the materials and say something like “There are objects hidden inside the bow!” “I wonder how many objects you can collect?”

What to do in the middle:  ·      Let the child touch the rice or sand and let them explore the materials in their own way. You can ask open-ended questions like, “I wonder how many cars/pebbles you collected?” Let them count by themselves or with your support. You can compare and ask who has more pebbles/cars, or less.

How to finish the activity: ·      Tell your child that after five minutes it's time to clean up  ·      Return all objects back to their places.

Small Group Activity:  Making a bottle shaker Approximate Time: 15 minutes

Materials Needed: Empty water bottle Rice, or pebbles/rocks

Vocabulary: shaker, shake make sound

How to start the activity: Provide the materials.  Say something like, “I will put some rice in my bottle.

What to do in the middle: Continue putting more rice/pebbles in the bottle and listen to hear what your child will say.  I wonder what I can do with this.  Cover the bottle and shake.

How to finish the activity: Say something like, we’ve made a shaker and we can use it to make sound.  Sing a song as we use your musical instrument