Please play the following morning greeting message from Ms. Najla:
Song of the day: here
Activity 1:
Language (Speaking): Mystery Bag
Materials: 2 bags (could be shopping bags), toys/objects (a spoon, tooth paste, eraser, a glue stick anything that is available in the house.
Vocabulary: you may expand the child’s vocabulary by saying the names of the objects (sharpener, eraser, cards) the colors (dark blue, light green) the shapes (heart, star, oval) or describing the touch (smooth, soft, hard) etc.
Beginning: Ask your child to pick 4 toys or objects from his/her room and hide it in his bag. The adult can also choose a few objects and hide them in the adult’s bag.
Middle: Ask your child to pick up a toy or object from his/her bag and start to talk about it while he/she is still hiding the object until you can guess what it is. Encourage your child to describe the toy/object and help him/her elaborate by asking him/her questions relating to the function (Can I use it in the kitchen? in the bathroom?). Listen and acknowledge what the child is saying.
End: Take turns and help your child learn new vocabulary words. Give him/her a 3 minute warning. Ask your child to help clean up by taking the object back to their place.
Duration: 15 minutes
Brain Break activity:
Activity 2:
Math: Data analysis / Fine motor: Sorting and tonging (or a spoon)
Materials: Tray, tong or tweezers, a few pompoms 4 different colors and sizes of each (pompom, buttons, Lego pieces) or any small objects that can be picked with tweezers or tongs, 4 bowls depending on how many colors you have.
Vocabulary: tong, tray, tweezers, transfer, shapes, big, small, medium, long, objects etc.
Beginning: Place all the materials in the tray in front of your child and ask him/her to sort the materials by color using the tweezers/tong, transferring them into separate bowls.
Middle: Describe and acknowledge what your child is doing or saying. You can ask how many objects he/she thinks will be in each bowl. Then encourage him/her to count how many objects there are in each bowl. You can encourage the child to name the objects.
End: Encourage your child to transfer the objects back to the tray. Give a 3 minute warning before the end of the activity and then encourage your child to clean up.
Duration: 10-15 minutes
DEVELOPING MATHEMATICAL SKILLS IN EARLY YEARS
It’s likely you have heard the phrase, “Let’s look at the numbers!” in reference to a budget, sport statistics, polling result and so on. Hence, mathematics is part of our everyday lives. It is more than numbers. Arranging the furniture in a room, for instance, involves shapes and space which is geometry. Figuring out how much flour is needed while baking requires measurement. Deciding where and when to celebrate a holiday with extended family require data analysis. All these activities draw on a mathematical properties of common objects and events. For children as for adults, mathematics is about ordering and comparing quantities, discovering patterns, and moving objects from place to place. As these activities are so basic, in Early Years, we believe all children can be capable mathematicians. Adults at home may use these following strategies to support early learning in mathematics through the activities sent out by the teachers on their blogs;
Strategies to support number words and symbols:
- Use number words to describe everyday materials and events.
- Call attention to numerals (number symbols) in the environment.
- Encourage your child to write numerals
Strategies to support counting:
- Count and compare everything.
- Provide materials to explore one-to-one correspondence.
- Engage the child in simple numerical problem solving.
Strategies to support whole-part relationship:
- Provide materials that can be grouped and regrouped.
- Provide materials that can be taken apart and put back together.
Strategies to support naming and using shapes:
- Provide shapes for the child to see and touch.
- Encourage the child to create and transform shapes, observe and describe the results.
Strategies to support spatial awareness:
- Provide materials and plan activities that encourage the child to create spaces.
- Encourage the child to use words that describe position, direction and distance
Strategies to support measuring:
- Encourage the child to estimate quantities.
- Use and encourage the child to use the measurement words.
Strategies to support an understanding of patterns:
- Provide opportunities for the child to recognize and describe patterns in the environment.
- Provide materials that lend themselves to creating patterns.
- Look for opportunities to have fun with patterns.
Strategies to support data analysis:
- Provide opportunities to sort, count things, to describe and apply the results.
- Help the child represent data using lists, tabulations, charts, and graphs.
- Ask and encourage the child to ask questions that can be answered by gathering data.
Following are some links for your better understanding: 1 & 2
Kindly email me if you have any further queries regarding this article and I’d be happy to provide you with more details.
Kindly email me if you have any further queries regarding this article and I’d be happy to provide you with more details.
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Ms Zarmeena Aamir
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