Wednesday, April 22nd> Activities

Small Group Activity: Hiding Letters                                                                   Approximate Time: 10 minutes

Materials Needed: Pieces of paper (Half A4 papers) Marker Tape

Vocabulary: Hiding, finding, alphabet, hunt

How to start the activity: On the half paper, write a big uppercase letter. Write as many letters as you want and hide them around the room or the house by pasting them on the wall with a small tape. Tell the child that today he/she will go for a letter hunt! You can say something like, “Some letters are hiding all over the room, I wonder if you can find them all!”

What to do in the middle:  Let the child go search for the letters. Tell him/her that every time he/she finds one, he/she has to come back to you to show you. When the child brings you a letter, ask him/her “What is this letter?” If the child doesn’t know you make the sound of the letter and ask the child to repeat after you. Encourage the child to find more.

How you can extend the activity: The child can find objects around the room or in his/her toys that start with that letter.

How to finish the activity:  Give the child a 5 minutes warning. Tell the child that it is time to clean up. Let him/her help you to put the materials away.

Small Group Activity: Feeling Faces                                                                   Approximate Time: 10 minutes

Materials Needed: Paper Glue Cut out of different noses, eyes and mouths (You can draw them yourself or print the picture below)

Vocabulary: Feelings, face, happy, sad, angry, scared.

How to start the activity: Provide the child with the materials and tell him/her that the face is missing its features: nose, mouth and eyes. Ask the child to help you put them in the right place.

What to do in the middle:  Observe how the child paste and place the mouth, eyes and nose. You can have many oval shapes as faces and many more different kinds of mouths, eyes and noses so the child and make a lot of different faces. Ask open ended questions such as “I wonder how is this one feeling, the eyes are open, the mouth is going up, how do you think he/she is feeling?”

How you can extend the activity: Let the child draw his/her faces.

How to finish the activity:  Give the child a 5 minutes warning. Tell the child that it is time to clean up. Let him/her help you to put the materials away.

These are the pictures I used, you can save them and attached them in a Word Document to print: