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Week 1
Day 1:
Let’s create something!
(Using things around the house)
What do you need?
Manipulatives - Lego, wooden block
Malleable items – a blanket, small towels, cushions
Storybook
How can you work with your child?
Ensure that your child has a large canvas to work on (carpet, clearly demarcated flooring) .
Start a conversation about your child’s favourite things.
Create something that your child likes, or you may want to refer to a beloved story book and create a character of scene in it.
Make use of the manipulatives and things around the house. Drawing to the attention of the shape and size of them before creating them with the materials.
What's next?
Instead of creating a character, encourage your child to create a scene from a story.
He/She can come up with an imaginary scene such as ‘Paw Patrol goes swimming!’ or ‘Elsa has a picnic with friends!’
Day 2:
Let’s create something again!
(Exploring math concepts of big & small, tall & short)
What do you need?
Manipulatives - Lego, wooden block
Malleable items – a blanket, small towels, cushions
How can you work with your child?
Revisit ideas on what was created the day before.
Do I want to create it again?
If yes, what do I want to add? What do I want to remove?
If no, what else do I want to create?
This time, the creation should focus on creating something big and small (such as a big ball and small ball.
Next, focus on creating something tall and short (such as a tall tree and short tree).
What's next?
Look around the house for similar items that are different in size and height, encourage your child to identify them.
Day 3:
Let’s construct – Exploring the letter A
Source: Alohagems
What do you need?
Marker
Rough paper
Ice-cream sticks in various lengths
Apple
How can you work with your child?
Write the letter A on the rough paper.
Using the ice-cream sticks, encourage your child to form the letter Aa using the ice cream sticks.
What's next?
Cut an apple with your child, bringing to your child’s attention the different parts of the fruit: the skin, the flesh, the core, the stalk. Have him/her eat it.
If possible, you can cut the apple into strips and invite your child to form the letter A as with how he/she worked with the ice cream sticks.
Day 4:
Exploring math concepts - Sets
What do you need?
Markers
Rough paper
Manipulatives such as Lego pieces, or small figurines, vehicles.
What's next?
This could be an extension of the story telling experience and constructing favourite characters activity we did earlier in the week. (e.g. Elsa brought FIVE apples in her picnic basket.)
How can you work with your child?
Draw 2 large circles on a piece of paper, both in different coloured markers.
Tell this story:
One day, mama bird went out to look for some food, she came across ONE big tree. Can you put ONE Lego piece into the red circle?
Excellent. Ok let's continue.
On the tree there were TWO gigantic durians. Can you show me TWO using the Lego pieces and place it in the blue circle?
Look here, we have ONE tree and TWO durians. Do you want to continue the story?
Proceed to move on with the story to numerals 5/10 depending how engaged your child is.
Day 5:
Let’s construct – Exploring the letter B
What do you need?
Ball
Ice-cream sticks
Yarn
What's next?
Think of other words that begin with the letter Bb (e.g. baby, belly, boy, blue, bubbles).
You can take your child out for bubble play!
How can you work with your child?
Sing this song “Throw, throw, throw the ball high. Up, up, up to the sky. Its turning around its coming back down, come on everybody let’s catch it!” OR sing any made-up song about a ball with your child.
Encourage your child to do the following:
Sit down on the floor and roll the ball to you
Sit down on the floor and throw the ball to you
Stand up and throw the ball to you
Stand up and kick the ball to you
Using ice-cream sticks and yarn, invite your child to form the letter B. Letter B is a Mama who has a baby in her belly!
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