Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Thursday, April 2nd > Activities


Please check the tab under "Conscious Discipline & High Scope" I have posted an article about "Literacy in Early Years" from Ms. Zarmeena. Thank you and have a great weekend!

Small Group Activity: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Approximate Time: 15 minutes
Materials Needed:
●     If you have the book, you can read the book to the child.
●     If you do not have the book, you click the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NQK-Sm1YY                 
Vocabulary: egg, caterpillar, tiny, hungry, food, stomach ache, cocoon, and butterfly.
How to start the activity:
●     Tell the child that today we are going to listen to a story about a caterpillar.
What to do in the middle:
●     Play the video one time.
●     When the video finishes, ask the child open/ended questions about the story like what the caterpillar eats on Monday or other days? why does he have a stomach ache?” What did he build around himself? And what did he turn into when he got out of his cocoon.
Extension:(to further challenge the child you may add the following steps)
●     Invite the child to draw a picture about his/her favorite part of the story.
●     Invite the child to recall the story and the sequence of the story.
How to finish the activity:
●     Give the child a 5 minutes warning.
●     The child might ask to watch the video again. You can ask him/her why he/she liked the video.


Small Group Activity: Guessing game with food
                                                      
Approximate Time: 15 minutes
Materials Needed:
●     Any kind of your child's favourite fruits, vegetables and dairy products.
●     Scarf / or they can close their eyes by themself         
Vocabulary: taste, smell, touch, hard, soft, sweet, sour, healthy
How to start the activity:
●     Tell your child that today we are going to close our eyes, and I will pass to you one kind of food, touch it, smell it, and taste it then guess what kind of food?
What to do in the middle:
●     When your child touches the food ask questions like, How does the food feel? Is It soft or hard? Big or small?
●     If your child tastes the food ask questions like? “I wonder if the food is sweet/ sour, yummy?” “ Do you like it ?
●     Then invite him/her to guess what it was ?
Extension:(to further challenge the child you may add the following steps)
●     Invite the child to make a fruit salad by cutting (with a plastic knife) the fruits with your support.
●     Invite the child to recall/ draw what they ate from the beginning !
How to finish the activity:
●     Give the child a 5 minutes warning and cleanup together.





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