Mount Carmel at Home - 25/03/2020
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.
Share your child's learning with us by uploading photos and videos to their Learning Journey on Famly, by uploading on Instagram and adding the hashtag #MountCarmelatHome or posting on our Facebook page. Your child's teachers will love to see what you have been up to!
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The sound of the week is "M" - https://youtu.be/26uXtUYssuo?t=239
Today’s activities for preschool children
Activity 1 | Clothes peg flowers |
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Method | Draw around something circular eg: a cup or CD. Cut it out and ask your child to completely colour it in. Once they have finished add a number to the middle and ask them to place the corresponding number of ‘petals’ (pegs) on their flower. This can be done with as many or few numbers as you wish. |
What did we learn? | Mathematics: Reciting numbers in sequence and learning to experiment with using objects to represent ideas of number. Physical development: Using one handed tools and equipment. |
Activity 2 | Hanging out the washing! |
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Method | In Springtime the weather can be very mixed up. Sometimes the sun is shining brightly, sometimes it is raining and sometimes the wind is blowing too. When the weather is dry we can hang our washing outside on the washing line. Show your child a pile of mixed up (clean!) socks (if socks are not available you can use the Matching sock sheet cut up into separate socks). Ask your child to match the pairs of socks and then hang the pairs of socks next to each other on the washing line using the strength in their hands to manipulate the clothes pegs – opening a clothes peg is a task in itself that helps to build children’s fine motor strength! How did the sock sorting go? We hope you can hand this task over to your children from now on. Show us how they got on by uploading on Instagram and adding the hashtag #MountCarmelatHome, posting on our Facebook page or uploading photos to Famly of your little helpers. |
What did we learn? | Physical Development (PD): We are learning to use one-handed tools and equipment. Mathematics (M): We are learning to notice simple shapes and patterns. We are learning to show interest in shapes in the environment. |
Activity 3 | Mini beast pebble |
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Method | Go into the garden or for a walk and find a smooth pebble or stone. Take it home, wash and dry it ready to paint with either paints or markers. You might want to show your child some pictures of mini beasts first and let them choose which one they want to make eg: spider, bee, ladybird etc. Once they have finished their creation let them choose their bug a ‘home’(from the printable sheet), where would their bug like to live the most? Cut out their chosen one and either place or glue the creature to their chosen habitat! Please upload any creations to Famly. |
What did we learn? | Understanding of the world: Children begin to show care and concern for living things. Being Imaginative: Creating simple representations of people or objects and choosing particular colours for a purpose. |