“Clever Cat” read by Teacher Linda
“Blue Chameleon” read by Teacher Linda
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Category Archives: Online Curriculum Week 4
Language and Literacy:
Let’s explore the letter Cc (curly “C”).
Learning points: help children to say the sound “c”, recognise the sound “c” in different words and help older children to recognise the visual formation of the letter
Do you know Chameleon starts with the letter “c” and Clever Cat? What other words begin with “c”. Let’s explore together….
Additional supports:
Learning points: introducing the concepts for the week and the letter C. instilling a love of books and reading; the foundation of language and literacy development.
Additional Montessori inspired activity: Sensory writing Tray:
Fill the bottom of a tray with sand/flour/salt or even shaving cream. Give your child the visual letter card to copy and invite them to draw it in the tray with their finger. Benefits include: Development of fine motor skills, hand eye co-ordination, development of the sense of touch, letter recognition and letter formation.
Foundational Concepts: The 3 primary colours.
Recapping RED and YELLOW and introducing BLUE
Watering Whole @Home Curriculum Week 4
Did you have fun exploring the colour yellow with us last week? There are 3 primary colours that are used to make all the other colours. We have learnt about Red and Yellow and this week, we are exploring the final primary colour: Blue…… let’s explore the colour Blue together. The sky is blue! Some flowers are blue. The chameleon from our story this week started off the colour blue too. What other things are blue?
Chameleon colour song by Teacher Inger
“Our Chameleon is blue blue blue
Like the sky is blue blue blue
Oh no wait he’s red red red
Like a ladybird is red red red
Our chameleon is yellow yellow yellow
Like the sun he’s yellow yellow yellow
Oh not wait he’s blue blue blue
Our chameleon keeps changing too!
Can you say the word camou camou flage
So we can hide in disguise
We can change our colour colour colour
Like a chameleon too too too”
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Numeracy: Sorting, matching and counting using our 3 primary colours.
Watering Whole @Home Curriculum Week 4
Sorting, matching and counting activities are important for early cognitive development. It helps your child to notice differences and similarities between different objects and develops early literacy and numeracy skills.
In this activity we will sort our 3 primary coloured Chameleons using the printable below:
Chameleon colour matching and sorting printout
Instructions:
- Print both pages and cut out the coloured chameleons from page 2.
- Stick some prestick on the back of each chameleon
- Invite your child to match the colour of the chameleon to the colour words in the table provided on page one.
- For older children ask them to count the different chameleons in each colour group and help them write the answer in the blocks provided.
Science and Process based Art
Watering Whole @Home Curriculum Week 4
 Colour mixing. Now that we have learnt about our 3 primary colours….let’s do some experimenting together!  Set up a space for your child to explore the 3 primary colours only. Have blue, red and yellow paints.A blank sheet of paperAnd different painting tools such as brushes, sponges, sticks, feathers etc You can start by pointing to and talking about the different colours together. Then allow the children to explore on their own and find out all of the new colours they can make. Talk to them about what you see and ask questions too…”What colour are you using now? What happened when those colours mixed? I see you are making a yellow circle…etc”  Note… you may find it starts off as a beautiful picture of vibrant colours mixing together….once over mixed it will look more like a big muddy puddle 🙂 That is okay. This activity is about allowing the child to explore colours and colour mixing in their own unique and playful ways! The product is not as important as the process in this activity. |
Baking/cooking: Recipe Suggestion:
Watering Whole @Home Curriculum Week 4
In our story this week Clever Cat makes a delicious carrot cake!
This particular Carrot Cake recipe is always a huge hit in our house! And we have been asked to share our secret family recipe with many a guest in our home 🙂 …so here it is for all our Watering Whole families.
Beat together:
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 1/2 cups sunflower oil
Sift and add:
2 cups flour
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
Add:
3 cups grated carrot
3/4 cup coconut
1 cup or more chopped nuts
1 cup seedless raisins
Bake in greased pan at 180 degrees for 1 hour or until done.
Icing:
1 x 250g cream cheese (use 3/4)
100g margarine
3/4 packet icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Cream until fluffy.
Gross Motor, Fine Motor and Life Skills with Teacher Julia:
Enlisting our children’s help around the house when it comes to cleaning up after themselves and other chores, is not only a wonderful life skill, but has many gross motor and fine motor benefits too!
This week Physiotherapist Julia Lee-Sylvester is sharing some wonderful “activities of daily life” for your @home gross motor and fine motor programme.
“As a neurodevelopmental therapist, one of my goals when working with children is to promote functional independence. Some might call these chores or life skills.
It’s good to be mindful that when we do include our kids in an activity, the process is more important than the result and there will likely be lots of mess 😉
Parents, for some their child helping them with chores or activities of daily life can be triggering and result in anxiety for you or your child. We can’t and do not need to include or stimulate them all at time!
When I find myself getting frustrated I stop and ask myself (after a few deep breaths); what would I like to be the memory we make here? Perfectly baked and iced cupcakes but an incredibly stressed out mom or an average batch of cupcakes that look like a dogs breakfast but a fun time had by all? Take the pressure off, especially during these difficult times we find ourselves in currently.” – Julia
