Mount Carmel at Home - 13/05/2020
Welcome to Mount Carmel at Home. These sessions will enable parents to carry out fun and educational home learning activities with their children. We recommend establishing a routine and setting aside a time in day for home learning. It is preferable to do these activities in the morning when children are more alert than towards the end of the day when they can be tired and less cooperative.
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The sound of the week is "L" - https://youtu.be/U2HYM9VXz9k?t=293
Theme: London
Today’s activities for preschool children
Activity 1 - Sorting U and L words
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Method | Begin by asking your child to identify each sound and trace them, starting at the red dot. Next, go through the pictures with your child, asking them to name them. They might need help with some of the more tricky ones, eg: ‘upstairs’. Show them the example, you might say something like: “This is a leaf; leaf begins with the sound…(let them say it) so we draw a line to join it to ‘l’”. Let them work through each picture before counting up the u & l words. Ask them to circle which one has more. |
What did we learn? | Literacy: Writing – Linking sounds to letters, naming and sounding letters of the alphabet. Reading – Hears and says the initial sounds in words. |
Activity 2 - London's Burning - Singing in the round
What you’ll need | Singing voices Listening ears Makeshift drum |
Method | In 1666, a huge fire that started in a tiny bakery burned down most of London. The fire was so big that it was called the Great Fire of London. The fire lasted four days, and burned down over 13,000 homes. There are a lot of reasons why the fire was so large, mostly to do with the way houses were built – a lot of them were made from wood, and were very close together. At Kinder Lodge, one of our favorite songs to sing in assembly is “London’s Burning!” The children had been practicing singing this in the round. What is singing in the round? A round in music is a song which can be sung by two or more groups of people. One group starts off and the next group start to sing the same song a bit later. It should sound nice together. When a group gets to the end of the song they start again. They can go round and round, singing it several times. You can refresh your child’s memory of the song, or perhaps let your child hear the song for the first time if they are not familiar with it by clicking this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrA6IY4c9io Then, get the family involved in singing the song together! How many rounds can you all sing in? Can your child be the conductor and lead the performance? Once they’ve gained confidence in singing the song, get your child to add in a beat, by tapping out a rhythm on a makeshift drum! Encourage your child to listen carefully and help them to differentiate between the different parts – if they struggle, don’t worry, this is not any easy skill to master and many adults can get easily confused when singing in a round! Just be sure to have fun! |
What did we learn? | Expressive arts and design
Communication and language
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Activity 3 - The Great Fire Paper Bucket Chain
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Method | When the Great Fire spread through London in 1666, they did not have fire engines, special equipment and uniforms to fight the fire, like the Firefighters of today. The people of London all got together and made large chains of people, passing buckets of water from the river Thames to put out the burning buildings. Today you will make your very own bucket chain! If your child has any older siblings, it may be fun to get them involved too, as this activity will be a bit of a challenge for the little ones!
Get some paper. This can be any size, but the bigger the paper, then the bigger the bucket chain and the easier it will be for your child to cut around! Help your child to fold the paper in an accordion fashion – the number of folds in the paper determines the number of people in the chain.
On the top piece of the folded paper, draw a person whose hands extend to touch the folds of the paper on each side – don’t forget to draw your person holding half of the bucket! You can use the template to draw the person in a yellow pen and get your child to trace over this.
Get your child to carefully cut around the person, making sure not to cut where the bucket meets the folds. Do not cut the joining sections, these are marked in red here. This could be quite difficult for some of the younger children, so offer help if needed.
Open up the paper and you will have a chain of people holding buckets ready to fight the fire! Don’t forget to draw faces on them and colour them in! |
What did we learn? | Physical development Holds pencil near point between first two fingers and thumb and uses it with good control. Handles tools safely and with increasing control. Begins to retrace vertical lines. |
