14th April, 2020 - Tuesday

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Activity 1:
Mathematics (Geometry): Shapes (Sorting)

Materials: A blank sheet of paper, glue sticks, shapes like square, circle, triangle etc. cut out of any paper (colored or white). Further cut the shapes from the middle so that they are cut into two halves like the picture below:

Vocabulary: Shapes, half, complete, part, whole

Beginning: Show the children all the cut up shapes mixed together in a bowl and tell them that you need help completing the shapes as they have been cut into half and mixed up in the bowl.

Middle: Let the child take out each piece to explore. Ask them what shape they think the piece belongs to and if they can find it’s missing part. Once the child sorts out different pieces and puts them together to form a complete shape, you can ask him/her to paste the pieces together on another sheet of paper to form complete shapes.

End: Go over the names of the shapes the child has formed and finally, ask him/her to help you clean up by covering and putting away the glue stick.

Duration: 10-15 minutes
Extension: You may give children extra shapes like a heart, star, an arrow, a butterfly etc. as shown in the picture below:

Brain Break:

Activity 2:
Science (Sorting Animals)

Materials: Toy land animals and sea animals (if you do not have toy animals, print out small pictures of both kinds of animals), paper, pencil, two bowls or containers, glue stick (optional). (If they don't have printer option then they can use any two different kinds of animals like dinosaurs etc)

Vocabulary: Land, sea, habitat, forest, wild, farm

Beginning: Ask the child what kind of animals he/she sees in front of him/her (keep them all mixed up in the same bowl). Prompt by asking where the different animals live.

Middle: Once the child points out that the animals live in two different habitats, draw two columns on a paper and encourage the child to place all the land animals in one column and sea animals in the other. If the child is using pictures, he/she can even paste them.

End: Once the child has sorted the two kinds of animals, give him/ her a two minutes warning and then encourage to place all the land animals in one bowl and the sea animals in the other bowl. If your child is using pictures, he/she can cover the glue stick and put it away.

Duration: 10 minutes

Extension: Next time a third category of animals can be introduced to the activity. Draw three columns on a paper and ask the child to place all the farm animals that live on land in one column, all the wild land animals in the second one and all the sea animals in the third one.