Exploring the colour orange:

Did you know if we mix yellow and red we can make orange? This week we are going to have fun with an egg shell painting and explore mixing yellow and red to make orange together (see Art activity)

Recapping Shapes:

This week we are having fine-motor shape fun as we recap circles, squares and triangles. Last week we shared a fun play-dough recipe for our speckled frogs and this week we are going to re-use our play-dough for some more fine motor fun was we work on our shapes together.

Directions: print out or draw the shapes. Use your play-dough or some pipe cleaners to create the same shapes on top of your paper. Explore your shapes together counting the sides of a square and the number of corners, then compare it to a triangle and a circle which has no corners.

Benefits include: introducing the concepts of sides, angles, and corners, early maths skills, strengthening of hand and finger muscles, hands-on, tactile learning of shape formations (precursor to letter and number formations).

Fun with rhythm and rhyme:

Did you know ….playful rhyming, songs and games are one of the first steps to reading readiness?

Research shows, there is a strong correlation between a young child’s ability to rhyme and their later ability to read.

Join teacher Inger this week as she shares some fun songs and rhymes with you all about our feathered friends.

Two Little Dickie Birds (learning about opposites)

Sing A Song Of Sixpence (Nursery Rhyme)

Ten Little Chicks (Counting Rhyme)

Little Bird (transitional song)