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Activity 1
Literacy- 20 minutes
Sorting - Letter J
Materials needed: paper, glue, box, pencil.
Vocabulary: juice- jar- jeep- jellyfish- jug-sort.
Beginning:
Parents, please print the template, cut the pictures and place them in a box or bowl.
Ask the child “I wonder what the activity will be?”
Middle:
· Acknowledge different answers/ guesses.
· Ask the child to open the box and check the pictures.
· Let the child name the pictures.
· Stress on the beginning sound of each picture.
· Divide a paper into halves, one side for the pictures that have the /j/ and the other for not /j/.
· Paste pictures according to /j/ or not.
Extension: You can encourage the child to write the words of the pictures.
End:
Give 5 minutes notice before the end of the activity.
Ask the child if they would like to send a picture of the work to the teacher.
Activity 2
Math (10 minutes)
Number recognition
Materials needed: Balloons (foil balls if not available) , markers, paper.
Vocabulary: number, bigger, smaller, order (one, two, three…).
Beginning:
Write a number on each balloon (1 -10) and hide them in the house.
Middle:
· Tell your child, “We are going on balloon hunt.”
· Let the child look and collect all the balloons.
· Ask your child to read the number on each balloon.
· Ask your child the throw and catch the balloon according to the number on the balloon.
· Ask which number is bigger/ smaller? Is 5 bigger or smaller than 9?....
Extension: Ask the child to write from 1- 10 on a paper.
End:
Give 5 minutes notice and you can ask the child to put balloon number 1 first and number 5 second and so on.
Activity 3
Fine motor skills (5 minutes)
Materials needed: cardboard- colored markers- colored straws or coloring pencils.
Parents or caregivers make holes on the cardboard and then the child has to insert sticks/ straws according to the color.
By pushing the stick, s/he is working on intrinsic muscles of his/her hands and on attention to follow the color pattern.
Tips for Parents (please press here)
Thoughts of the day..
Let's finish the week with some music. Press (here) !
Materials needed:
Paint, straw, brushes
Shaving cream, tray
Ice cube tray, food coloring
Seeds- watermelon if possible, but not mandatory
Containers of different sizes and different types of lids.
