Small Group Activity: Moon sand
Approximate Time: 10 minutes
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Materials Needed:
● 1 cup of Flour
● ⅓ cup of Coconut oil/baby oil/sunflower oil
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Vocabulary: soft, sand, mix, recipe, ingredient, mold,
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How to start the activity:
● Tell the child that today we are going to make a special sand that you can use it. Collect with your child the ingredients.
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What to do in the middle:
Let the child put the ingredients inside the pot and mix them all together. When the mix is done, invite the child to touch the sand. You can ask open-ended questions like “What do you think is happening?” How does it feel?
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Extension:(to further challenge the child you may add the following steps)
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How to finish the activity:
● Give the child a 5 minutes warning.
● Tell the child that is time to clean up.
● Keep the sand in a Ziploc bag to use it next time.
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Small Group Activity: Pete The Cat ‘I Love My White Shoes’ Story reading
Approximate Time: 10 minutes
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Materials Needed:
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Vocabulary: Colors, fruits, what happened, happy, sad.
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How to start the activity:
● Tell your child that today we are going to watch a video about a cat who was wearing white shoes and he had some problems. I wonder what happened.
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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 happened to the cat when he stepped on strawberries?” “Did he feel sad and cried?” “What did he do next?” “What color were his shoes at the end?”
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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.
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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.
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