13th April, 2020 - Monday

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

Song of the day: here

Activity 1:

Science: Cloud and Rain experiment

Materials: A large jar/ see- through plastic cup or glass, white shaving cream (not a gel version), small container or bowl with food coloring preferably blue. Pipettes or droppers Optional: More food colors. 

Vocabulary: shaving cream, cloud, rain, dropper, blue, water, sky, rain drops

Beginning: In a small cup, mix the food coloring with some water. Fill the large jar with water until it is about 3/4 full. Place the jar and the cups of colored water on the table. Place a pipette in each cup of colored water. Tell the child today they will be doing an experiment to see what happens when it rains.

Middle: Let the child work alongside the adult, the adult can spray a large amount of shaving cream into the jar until it covers the top layer of the jar. Allow the child to do the same or use the foam as they wish. Ask them what they think will happen when they add the food coloring? Demonstrate how to use the dropper, notice the child by describing what you see them doing, and repeat what they say. Talk about the weather, what items they need if it starts to rain etc.

End: Compare the adults and child's work, encourage the child to explain why their work may look different/the same. Give the child a 5-minute warning, tell them it's time to clean up, they can help in cleaning any spillages with a paper towel etc. then encourage them to wash their hands.

Duration: 10 – 15 minutes

Extension: you could play a video about rain here or sing a weather song such, rain rain go away.

Brain Break:

Activity 2:
Creative Arts, Math, & Fine motor skills: Shape sponge painting

Materials: Kitchen or bath sponges, paper, Tempera or poster paint (for painting on paper), Acrylic or fabric paint, black marker, plastic plates or trays, scissors, apron/smock, optional, cotton buds, or paint brush.

How to make the shape sponges: Draw shapes on old or new sponges and cut them out, allow the child to use them as shape stamps.

Vocabulary: sponge, shape, stamp, dip, paint, press, left, circle, square, triangle, rectangle, star, heart, flower

Beginning: Tell the child that today they will be making a picture using shape sponges and you wonder how they will use the shapes. The child may say what they will do.

Middle: Support the child by working alongside him/her, using vocabulary to describe their work. You can make a house using a rectangle and a triangle for a roof, notice how the child is using the stamps and ask them “I see you….I wonder what you will make next?”

End: Give the child a 5-minute warning, then encourage the child to help put all the stamps together on one of the plastic plates/tray and wash their hands.

Duration: 10-15 minutes

Extension: You could compose and decompose shapes and let the child describe his/her work.