18th March, 2020 - Wednesday

Please play the following morning greeting message from Ms. Najla:

Song of the week: School Family

Activity 1:

Language & Literacy: Name writing 

Materials: Pencil, paper

Beginning: You write down your child’s name on the paper (First letter upper case and the rest lower case).

Middle: The child copies his/her name. ( If he/she is able to write the first name without looking, you may encourage him/her to write the last name or the name of a family member) 

End: Talk about each letter of their name and its sound.

Duration of the activity: 15 mins

Activity 2:

Fine motor skills: Lacing 

Materials: shoe lace/ a piece of yarn/ string , penne pasta/ beads/ cheerios 

Beginning: Let the children know that they will be lacing pasta on to the string.

Middle: Let the children lace the pasta one by one by passing the string through the hole of each pasta piece.

End: Acknowledge their ideas. You may count how many pasta pieces are there on the string. 

(This activity helps children develop their fine motor muscles and also their hand-eye coordination)

Duration of the activity: 20 mins