7th April, 2020 - Tuesday

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

                            

Song of the day: here

Activity 1:

Math & Fine Motor skills: Making a tower

Materials: Blocks/Lego, ruler/tape measure.

Vocabulary: Blocks/Lego, tower, tall, big, bigger, biggest, small, smaller, smallest, measure, length, count, more or less.

Beginning: Tell the child that today they will make a tower out of blocks and you wonder who will make the tallest tower. (The adult works with her own material beside the child. If they choose to do something else it is ok.)

Middle: As the child builds his/her tower notice the way in which they are stacking the blocks i.e. “I see you are putting all the …blue blocks then you… or “I see you put blue, green and then red, I wonder what you will put next.” Then encourage the child to count how many blocks he or she used and compare who used more or less blocks.

End: At the end ask the child whose tower looks bigger/ smaller they may say their tower is bigger you can tell them, “I wonder how we can measure whose tower is bigger”, encourage them to help in deciding what they can use to measure, if they need help you can suggest a ruler. At the end of the activity give the child a 5-minute warning and then have them clean up. You can sing a clean-up song or ask them if they could teach you one while cleaning up.

Duration: 10-15 minutes

Extension: Your child could make 3 towers and let him/her compare. Use vocabulary: long, longer, longest.

Brain Break activity:

Activity 2:

Science & Creative Arts – Magic Milk Experiment and Marbled Milk Painting

Materials: A deep dish/ tray, full fat milk, earbuds, cup of dish washing liquid, 2/3 different colors of food coloring, paper, apron/smock.

Vocabulary: Milk, earbuds, dish/tray, swirl, move/moving, mix, color/s marbled painting, paper

Beginning: Tell the child today they will make a Magic Milk experiment ask them to predict what they think will happen when they mix everything together, ask “Why do you think it's magic?

Middle: While the child adds food coloring and dish washing liquid, notice and repeat what the child says, they may say it’s moving, ask them “I wonder what will happen if you add more colors” etc.

End: After noticing all the colors the child made and how the colors swirled in the milk and asking them if their predictions were correct give the child a 5-minute warning and encourage them to clean up and wash their hands.

Duration: 10-15 minutes 

Extension: Tell the child now they will make a marbled milk painting and ask them “I wonder what will happen if we add paper”. Then encourage the child to dip the paper into the milk by placing the paper on the surface of the milk you can ask the child to count to 5 and take the paper out and leave to dry.