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English Week 6
Day 1: Absorption Experiment
(Science)
Learning Goals
Demonstrate logical thinking skills.
Display awareness of their own thinking process (e.g. can explain their own reasoning.
Asks questions to confirm or clarify an understanding.
Develop skills in gathering, sorting, retrieving and communicating data (pictorial representation.
Objectives
Child will be able to make predictions.
Child will be able to express reasons for predictions clearly.
Child will be able to display increasing clarity in verbal interactions.
Child will be able to engage in one to one discussions and conversation listening to others, questioning and responding appropriately within the context of the conversation.
What do you need?
Ice cube trays
Medicine droppers or teaspoon
Cup of water
Materials that absorb or do not absorb (Important Note: These materials must be small enough to fit into the ice cube tray - small piece of wood, facial tissue/tissue paper, writing paper, paper towel, toy car, cotton ball, cloth, rock etc.)
How can you work with your child?
Invite your child to experiment with water absorption with a variety of materials.
Explain what absorption means if necessary. Show through example to ensure understanding.
Introduce the materials provided and ask your child to predict which things will absorb water and which things will not absorb water by drawing the items in the respective columns E.g.
4. Invite your child to use the medicine dropper (or teaspoon) to drop a few drops of water (not too much) into each section of the ice cube tray.
Source: prekinders.com
5. Inform him/her to place one item into each section of the ice cube tray. Ask him/her to observe what takes place.
6. Invite him/her to draw the items that absorb or do not absorb on a piece of paper E.g.
7. Make comparisons with his/her initial prediction.
What's next?
Extension 1:
Invite child to take a tour of the house and choose items that they think will absorb or won't absorb water.
You may want to use bigger container for bigger items.
Day 2: Action Word Activity
(Language and Literacy, Music and Movement)
Learning Goals
Take risks and learn from mistakes.
Display positive dispositions towards their own learning (persistence).
Demonstrate use of multiple word sentences to describe their ideas, thoughts and feelings.
Use language to recall an event/share an experience.
Objectives
Child will be able to demonstrate understanding of action words.
Child will be able to create simple sentences with some support.
What do you need?
Paper and Pencil
How can you work with your child?
Action Word Game
Invite your child to play an action word game with you.
Tell him/her that you are going to do an action and he/she is going to guess what it is. When he/she gets it right then it will be his/her turn to do the action and for you to guess what it is.
Divide a piece of paper into 2 columns. 1 column is for you to write the action word and the other column is for your child to draw the action.
Write each action word that you and your child get right and encourage your child to draw next to each action word.
Continue taking turns and come up with as many actions as possible.
Form simple sentences: Revisit Stretch the Sentence Activity (Week 5, Thursday)
Invite your child to choose an action word and create a simple sentence e.g. I can jump.
Remind your child of the activity he/she did last week called Stretch a sentence (Week 5, Thursday). Revisit the activity to ensure he/she know what you are referring to.
Follow the same procedure indicated above and use, Where, When, How and Why to stretch the sentence:
Continue with other action words.
What's next?
Stretch a sentence can be used anytime (verbally and/or written) you get an opportunity e.g. introducing a new vocabulary, in conversations when you need more information, reading and so on.
Day 3: Measuring with Footprints
(Mathematics )
Learning Goals
Display increasing control and coordination over body movements.
Display eye hand coordination.
Asks questions to confirm or clarify an understanding.
Engage in reflective thinking to understand what worked and why (and what did not work and why).
Objectives
Child will attempt to trace his/her footprint and that of others independently with minimal support.
Child will be able to express his/her ideas clearly.
Child will demonstrate creativity.
Child will develop various gross and fine motor skills confidently.
Source: education.com
What do you need?
Different colored construction papers (or white paper)
Markers
Scissors
How can you work with your child?
Invite your child to trace his left or right foot onto a construction paper.
Give him/her a bunch of construction papers to trace each family member’s foot on each sheet.
Encourage him/her to cut out the footprints.
Help him/her to name it according to its owner. Ask him/her to identify the first letter sound and help to spell the rest of the name.
Discuss the footprints with your child.
Whose is the biggest foot?
Whose is the smallest foot?
Is there a smaller foot than this?
Are any of them the same size?
Can he/she arrange the footprints from the largest to the smallest and vice versa?
Can he/she measure the length of the room with the largest footprint? He/she will need your support with this.
What's next?
Use the footprint to measure things in the house e.g. table, carpet, cabinet etc.
Day 4: Magazine Pictures as Drawing Prompts
(Art)
Source: artfulparent.com
Learning Goals
Display pride creating work
Display confidence in expressing ideas, thoughts, feelings.
Explore a wide range of fine motor skills with increasing control and coordination.
Demonstrate problem solving skills.
Objectives
Child will be able to demonstrate creativity and imagination when creating drawing prompts from magazine pictures.
Child will have fun.
Child will demonstrate logical thinking skills throughout the process.
What do you need?
Paper
Magazine(s)
Glue stick
Drawing tools e.g. pencils, crayons, markers etc.
How can you work with your child?
Step 1: Invite your child to choose his/her magazine images and cut them out.
Cut out half pages, partial pages, cut around some items, and even did one with a full magazine page (with the idea that your child can draw over the magazine image).
Step 2: Glue the magazine pages to the paper as desired.
Inform your child that he/she will have to let your magazine pages dry under a heavy book, so they’ll dry flat. (Move on to Step 3 after it’s dry.)
Step 3: Invite your child to draw around and on the magazine images and paper as desired, using the magazine image as a starting point or drawing prompt for your artwork.
What's next?
Invite your child to write a simple story about his/her completed work. Scribe what the child says and invite him/her to copy it either onto his/her drawing or onto another piece of paper.
When scribing and child is copying, remember to highlight importance of beginning a sentence with a capital letter and to end each sentence with a full stop (or any other appropriate punctuation mark).
Day 5: Weekly Journaling Activity
(Language and Literacy)
Learning goals
Demonstrate use of multiple word sentences to describe their ideas, thoughts and feelings.
Use language to recall an event/share an experience (may work in past, present and future tenses).
Recognise upper and lower case and propose when these might be used.
Display awareness of letter sound correspondence i.e. phonological awareness.
Demonstrate writing for a purpose.
Objectives
Child will begin to express thoughts meaningfully.
Child will be able to respond accordingly to questions.
Child will be able to use words or illustration to express ideas and thoughts logically.
What do you need?
Journal used in weekly journaling activity
Writing tools e.g. pencils, crayons, colour pencils etc.
What's next?
Continue to make journaling part of a predictable routine.
Pick a convenient time to journal–or to scribble–that you know you can stick with most of the time. It can be done daily or once a week.
Sample journal (Taken from Pinterest)
How can you work with your child?
Revisit past journal entry(ies). Sharing his/her most recent journal entry encourages your child to reflect on his/her own thoughts and drawings.
Continue to share personal journaling you have done (if any).
Encourage child to reflect back to everything he/she has done at home or provide prompts on what to journal about (refer to the list shown in Week 1/3/5 Extension 1 “What can I write about?”) as and when necessary.
Continue to model one simple writing idea in your own journal. Draw a picture and write 1 or 2 sentences about it.
Your child doesn’t have to include actual letters, words or sentences! If child decides to only draw, then let him/her do so.
Teach conventions of writing (punctuation, capital letters, etc.) as and when your child is ready.
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