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English Week 4
Day 1: Language & Literacy - Magazine Article
Learning Goals
Demonstrate understanding of the sources of information (magazine).
Read and participate in simple independent reading behavior.
Objectives
Child will be able to understand the magazine is a source of information.
Child will be able to understand that there can be different kind of magazines (e.g. Fashion magazine, business magazine, financial magazine etc).
What do you need?
The Reader Digest magazine/Any magazine
Highlighter
Writing book
Pencil
What's next?
Highlight all the new words on the magazine that the child has learned.
Write a list of new words that the child has learned in his/her book and make a word bank.
How can you work with your child?
Get the Reader Digest magazine or any magazine.
Spend some time to read the cover of the magazine.
Help your child to find an article that he/she will be interested to want to know more.
Explain how to find different articles by going through the content page.
Ask questions related to the article read, to understand child’s comprehension skill. For Example:
(a) Why have you chosen this article to read?
(b) What do you think the article is talking about?
(c) Highlight on the advertises in the magazine and discuss why there are advertise in the magazine?
Explain meaning of any unfamiliar word to build their vocabulary.
Help your child reflect on what he/she read. E.g. "What is your opinion about the article that we read?"
Day 2: Language & Literacy
Learning Goals
Demonstrate emerging independent writing (using pictorial symbols).
Writing/Drawing for a purpose
Symbol recognition
Objectives
Child will be able to gain more knowledge on logos.
Child will be able to understand that logos convey a message.
What do you need?
Images of logos
Drawing paper
Drawing and colouring materials
Scissors
Popsicle sticks
Scotch tape/Glue
How can you work with your child?
Download different logo from internet.
Sit with the child to understand the logos.
Encourage him/her to draw out 5 logos on drawing paper.
Encourage him/her to write what each logo stands for.
Cut out the signs and stick them on the popsicle sticks.
What's next?
Name some of the things that can be represented by a logo.
Be creative and convert a text written in code, for example: “It's not healthy to have McDonald’s”
Be creative and design a class logo.
Day 3: Numeracy - Skip count to 5’s
Learning Goals
Display awareness of skip counting.
Objectives
Child will be able to understand the purpose of skip counting as an efficiency operation.
What do you need?
Hard Board/Thick paper
Black marker and colouring materials
Rolling dice
2 Duplo lego pieces/small tokens
What's next?
Encourage your child to design another board game and write the rules of how to play the game.
How can you work with your child?
Take a hard board/thick paper and draw a snake like pattern with the black marker.
Divide it into 20 boxes. Make a start and a finish spot.
Skip count to 5’s. Write numbers on the boxes e.g 5, 10, 15, 20 till 100. But keep some boxes empty, that means no number in the box.
4. Start playing the game. Take turns to roll the dice and move that many spaces. If you land on an empty box, say the missing number.
Day 4: Cooking experience - Pizza for dinner
Learning Goals
Understanding safety elements
Basic math, science and language skill
Building small muscle strength
Exploring with senses
Objectives
Child will be able to enjoy hands on learning.
Boost up confidence
What do you need?
Dinner plate
Cutting board
Table knife & spoon
Pita bread
Pizza/Pasta sauce
Sliced pepperoni
Sliced tomatoes
Shredded mozzarella cheese
How can you work with your child?
Bring all the things on the table.
Talk through the process of making a pizza.
Spread pizza/pasta sauce on the pita bread.
Lay out the pepperoni, tomatoes on top of the pita bread.
Spread out the cheese.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Put the pita bread on a baking pan.
Bake it for 10 minutes until the cheese is melted.
What's next?
Enjoy the snacks together and discuss how he/she felt of the experience.
Discuss on various toppings that can be added to your pizza.
Questions to ponder upon:
Why the oven need to be preheated?
If different toppings are chosen does the baking time matter? Why or Why not?
What do I need to make a pizza dough from scratch?
Write down the pizza recipe in your recipe book.
Day 5: Drawing Challenge
Learning Goals
Understanding elements of art (e.g. line, colour, shape, texture)
Objectives
Child will be able to understand about different elements of art like line, colour, shape and texture.
Child will be able to imagine and think creatively.
What do you need?
Drawing book
Drawing and colouring materials
How can you work with your child?
Doing drawing challenges is a great way of improving your child’s drawing skills and creativity. Provide a drawing booklet and challenge your child to draw according to the list below:
Draw your favourite TV show
Draw what you want to be in future
Draw your family
Date your drawings
What's next?
Discuss about the drawing.
Use art vocabulary (e.g. line, colour, shape and texture) to talk about the drawing. For example:
Name the shapes that you have used in your drawing
What are some of the colours you have used in your drawing?
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