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English Week 7
Day 1: Language & Literacy - Artful Artist
Learning Goals
Show interest in the different genre of books
Book and print awareness
Points to words as you read the story
Objectives
Child will be able to decode familiar words.
Child will demonstrate ability in illustrating a story
Child will be able to use invented spelling to write words.
What do you need?
Drawing paper
Pens and pencils
Magic markers or crayons
Variety of story books available at home
What's next?
Invite your child to continue this activity with other books.
How can you work with your child?
Children love to be creative when it comes to drawing, and illustrations add visual imagery to stories.
Invite your child to look for a fable, fairy tale, or other short story (what you have at home) that they like the best.
Ask your child to illustrate a part of the story he or she likes best or describe a favorite character.
Give your child time to illustrate and add details.
Have your child dictate or write a few sentences that tell about this picture.
Invite your child to write these sentences below their illustration. Encourage them to listen to the phonetic sounds as they spell words.
Your child may use invented spelling and you can write the accurate spelling on the top with a pencil.
Remind your child to use begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop. Model it to your child as and when necessary.
Day 2: Language & Literacy - Journal Writing
Learning Goals
Demonstrate emerging independent writing (using invented spelling)
Write increasing complex message
Show awareness of finger spacing when writing
Objectives
Child will understand basic writing convention
Child will develop understand that writing is for a purpose
Child will develop imagination and creativity
What do you need?
Writing book
Pencils and eraser
What's next?
Sit with your child with his/her piece of writing and talk about it.
Encourage him/her to read out what he/she has written.
Encourage your child to represent the writing in pictorial (drawing) language.
How can you work with your child?
Encourage your child to do journal writing on a weekly basis. This will help your child develop language and literacy skills and enjoy writing experiences.
Invite your child to write about their experience being away from school. Some guided questions to ask:
-How do you like being at home instead of in school with your friends?
-What is your favourite part of the day staying at home? Why is this your favourite part? What is your favourite part of the day when you are in school? Why is this your favourite part?
-What do you miss the most not being in school? Why?
-How have you been spending your time at home?
-What are your thoughts about the COVID-19 virus? How does it make you feel?
Emphasize on starting the sentence with a capital letter and ending with a full stop.
Encourage your child to date their work.
Day 3: Numeracy - Addition Card Game
Learning Goals
Display awareness of numbers and addition
Objectives
Child will able to understand number and operation
Child will be able to understand rules and follow them accordingly
Child will be able to understand how to add numbers together either mentally or written
Child will be able to write simple addition sums
How can you work with your child?
Prepare the number cards:
Invite your child to make the cards as seen above.
Cut papers out the size of a normal deck of cards. You may use normal playing cards but remove the king, queen, ace and joker cards)
Invite your child to write a number on each card from 1 – 10 (or more depending on your child’s ability to add).
Create 2 sets or 3 depending on the number of people playing the game.
To play:
Each player simply lays down the top card from their hand. The first person to correctly add the two numbers gets to keep both cards! (As a parent please add very slooooooowwwly so that your child wins and thus practice their addition facts!)
Provide your child with pencil and paper and give them the option to write the number sums e.g. 7 + 5 = 12 Encourage your child if they choose to add mentally.
What do you need?
Cards numbered 1-10 (or 20)
Markers
Paper
Pencil
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What's next?
Play this game with the rest of the family members (make enough cards).
The challenge is instead of adding just 2 numbers, if there are 3 of you playing, your child will have to add 3 different numbers.
Guide and support your child initially until they get the hang of it
Day 4: Cooking experience - Banana Boat
Learning Goals
Responsibility
Understanding safety elements
Making healthy choices
Objectives
Child will be able to enjoy hands on learning
What do you need?
1 banana
Two miniature marshmallows
A few animal crackers
1 toothpick with a construction paper shape attached for a flag
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How can you work with your child?
Peel the banana and cut the curved part of the banana off so that it will sit flat on a plate.
Once on the plate, cut the middle section to form a slight, elongated V shape.
Set the marshmallows in the middle of the boat.
Add animal crackers, lightly pushing them into the banana or by adding just a touch of butter to the bottom of each one so that they stick to the banana and can stand.
Use construction paper to make a small paper flag. Decorate the flag and attach to the toothpick.
Place the toothpick on one tip of the banana.
What's next?
Invite your child to create their own cooking book.
Show examples of what cooking books look like
Purpose of writing recipes and having instructions
Invite child to write down the recipe and instructions for making the banana boat.
Invite child to design the front cover of his cooking book and write his/her name.
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 your favourite superhero and his/her super power
Date your drawings
As an addition to this week’s drawing challenge invite your child to write a couple of sentences about their drawing or write a story about it.
You can use this opportunity to reinforce the use of capital letter and full stop.
Encourage your child to sound the words out when they ask for assistance in spelling.
What's next?
Discuss about the drawing.
-What can you tell me about your picture?
-How did you get the idea for this picture?
-What title will you give this work?
-What shapes and lines did you use for this drawing?
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