“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” – Oscar Wilde
There is nothing that kids love more than taking things out and be fascinated by the smallest of surprises that they find within a box! So, we've come up with a way to surprise your kids along with developing their cognitive process! This new fun activity "Feed your puppy", will require your little ones to take paper bones of random colors out of a box and feed their adorable little handmade puppies!
This game of pretence will help them identify and differentiate a variety of colors and also increase their color vocabulary!
Objectives:
1. To develop the cognitive skills of color recognition and eye- hand coordination.
2. To develop and enhance task orientation and counting skills.
Based on the story of "The very hungry caterpillar" we
have made up a simple activity
that can be done easily and through which the children will be able
to learn the days of the week and counting numbers. Since
they are missing the circle time activity which they usually have
at play school, I have decided to create this simple yet engaging circle
time activity at home.
Learning Objectives:
1. To learn the days of the week.
2. To enhance the counting skills
3. To indemnity the healthy foods and junk foods
4. To learn about the beautiful life cycle of a butterfly (egg,
caterpillar, cocoon, butterfly)
Direction:
In our virtual class we began our day with
the reading of the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". We then lead the kids through the counting of
one apple, two pears, three plums, four straw berries, five oranges and
ten junk foods (one chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one
pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one
piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of
watermelon)
Through a small illustration of a little boy
eating Junk food on a Saturday and having a stomach ache that night, we gave an
insight on healthy eating to the kids and also taught them to identify junk
food and healthy food.
After the story reading we sang the ‘Days of the week’
from
"Super Simple Song"
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Our kids
enjoyed singing along.
Finally we
ended our day by doing the craft work.
Materials
required:
1. Paper
plates 8 nos. (If you don't have paper plate you can
cut chart paper in to circles)
2. White
papers 5 nos.
3. Pencil to
draw
4. Scissors
5. Glue
6. Cloths
clip 7 nos.
7. Crayons /
colour pencils / water colors.
Our dear parents were so happy to do the
activities with their kids and here are the lovely handworks of our kids along with a few
videos.
"Jordan Phonics & Fun Learning" is now available for an evening session from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
Children aged 2 to 4 can participate with an adult's help. Exclusively for "work from home" parent.
Our Curriculum & sessions aim at synthetic phonics, multi-sensory, step-by-step and child-friendly learning with Life skills lessons & Scripture classes.
Phonics Fundamentals course helps the children to decode English alphabetic code though songs, actions and brilliantly structured alphabet art.
One day God told Jonah, "Go to the city of Nineveh!
Its people have done wrong. Tell them I will punish them."
But Jonah was very scared. He ran away.
Jonah went to sea. He jumped on a ship that took him far
away from Nineveh.
But God sent a great storm.
Waves splashed into the ship and the sailors were afraid.
But Jonah lay asleep below deck.
"wake up, Jonah!" called the captain.
"Help us or we'll all drown!"
"It's my fault," said Jonah. I'm running away
from God - that's why He sent this storm."
"Toss me intothe sea," Jonah told the sailors.
"Then the storm will stop."
The moment they threw Jonah into the water the storm
stopped.
Down into the swirling water sank Jonah.
Then - gulp! Something swallowed him!
It was huge, huge fish!
Jonah was inside the fish for three days and nights.
"Help me Lord!" he prayed.
At last the fish spat Jonah out on to a beach.
"Go to Nineveh!" God told Jonah again. Tell the
people I'm going to punish them."
This time Jonah did as God said.
He went to Nineveh and warned the people "we're very
sorry," they said. "we will change."
From Jonah's story we learnt that we should obey God and
obey parents. If we have disobeyed them we should ask sorry for what we have
done.
After the story we learnt a song .
Who Did (Swallow Jonah)
Who did, who did
Who did, who did
Who did swallow
Jo, Jo, Jo, Jo (3)
Who did swallow Jonah
Who did swallow Jonah
Who did swallow Jonah down?
Whale did, whale did
Whale did, whale did
Whale did swallow
Jo, Jo, Jo, Jo (3)
Whale did swallow Jonah
Whale did swallow Jonah
Whale did swallow Jonah down
Then we moved on to the craft.
We made this fun puppet to illustrate the
story of Jonah and the Whale.
Reference picture to draw Jonah and fish.
Materials
Required:
1. Clothes clip.
2. Chart Paper (Preferably blue or grey)
3. Scissors and glue
4. pencil and crayons
5. Googly eyes
Procedure:
1.Cut out a whale shape from your blue or grey chart paper.
2.Cut out a Jonah shape from your white chart paper and color
him in.
3.Cut your whale in half horizontally.
4.Glue your googly eye on your whale (or draw the eye on with
marker).
5.Glue each half of the whale to the clothespin. (Make
sure that both halves line up. Also make sure that you glue only the edge
of each half-whale to one half of the clothespin.)
6.Glue Jonah on the reverse side of the
clothespin, so that he peeks out when you open the clothespin
Now it looks like the whale is eating Jonah (Jonah in
the belly of the whale).
Our kids enjoyed the fish they made.
Reference verse:
Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Jonah 1:17
Memory
verse:
Children obey your parents in the Lord, for this is
right. Ephesians 6:1
To focus on how to properly brush your teeth, this is a perfect activity to help a toddler to get used to the idea of tooth brushing. We made our kids to choose their favorite dolly for tooth brushing activity.
We taught them a song so they can sing along while brushing their dolly's teeth.
Brush your teeth up and down
Brush your teeth round and round
Brush your teeth from left to right
Brush your teeth in the Morning and Night
Brush Brush Brush (2)
Brush your teeth in the Morning and Night
It is super fun to make them understand the need of brushing their teeth daily both morning and night.
Then we moved on to craft
Materials Required:
1. Template drawing
2. Scissors
3. Colors
Procedure:
1. Draw or print the template
2. Color the picture.
3. Make a small cutting to insert the brush and then move you brush up and down, left to right and round & round.
It will be easy to learn their letters and making phonic connections when provided with activities that are fun and engaging! Here is an adorable craft that helped our kids to learn lower case letter 'a'.
Materials Required:
1. White paper
2. Color pencils
3. Black Marker
Procedure:
Draw the lower case letter a. It looks like an apple.
Draw the stem and the leaves.
Add few apple seeds in the middle of the 'alphabet apple'.
Draw ants on the apple.
Color the apple, stem and leaves.
We even changed the jolly song to
/a, a/! Ants on my apple.
/a, a/! Ants on my apple.
/a, a/! Ants on my apple.
They’re causing me alarm.
We even made an ant with its legs in the shape of the lower case alphabet 'a'
You can see, how our kids enjoyed the activity.
Then we sang jolly song,
/a, a/! Ants on my arm.
/a, a/! Ants on my arm.
/a, a/! Ants on my arm.
They’re causing me alarm.
It's always fun turning a letter into an animal or object. This Mr. Alligator craft is fun for all ages and is a great way to introduce our child to the recognition and the short sound of the letter /a/.
Materials Required:
1. Green and white papers
2. Googly eyes
3. Glue and scissors
4. Color pencils
5. Black Marker
Procedure:
Draw the Letter A and cut the letter.
Cut triangular sharp pointy teeth onto white paper.
Glue the teeth to the letter A so it looks like the alligator's mouth is open.
Glue on the googly eyes.
Here are our kids activities displayed.
Oh be careful and don't let the alligator bite your finger. Snap!
It's
a story about very special picnic. Can you guess what story it could be?.
Yes
you are right! It's the story of 5 loaves and 2 fish.
Jesus
talked to people everywhere He went. People in the towns and villages came to
listen to Him. He told them amazing stories. He told people all about God in
His stories. He told people that they should love God and God loves them. He
taught them how to pray.
One day Jesus sailed across
the lake with His disciples. He and His disciples went to a quiet place on the
shore. They climbed a hill and sat down to have a rest. But soon lots of people
came to join them. They had heard Jesus was there. They came from towns and villages.
There was a huge crowd.
"Tell
them all to go home" said a disciple to Jesus. But Jesus felt very sorry for them. He
talked to them, answered all their questions and made the sick well again.
"Oh!
now send them away it's getting late and the people are hungry" said a
disciple.
"We must feed them" said Jesus.
"Believe me even a huge amount of money would
not be enough to buy food for all these people" said Philip one of
Jesus' disciple.
"I have brought a picnic lunch" said a small boy.
"This boy has five little bread loaves and two small fish but it is not much to feed this big crowd " said Andrew to Jesus.
Well
Jesus held up the loaves and the fish. He said a prayer of thanks to God.
"Give
it to the people" said Jesus to His disciples. So the disciples made the
people to sit on the grass. The more food the disciples gave out, the more food
there's seem to be.
That
is a miracle! Now everyone had enough to eat. The disciples were surprised.
5000 people ate bread and fish until they were full. How could that be?
"Collect all the leftover food" said Jesus. The disciples did and took 12
baskets of food.
Do
you know what is special? Jesus had 12 disciples so there's a basket of food
for each one of them.
Even
they didn't get missed out. How amazing it is that Jesus can bless tiny amount
of food, go all the way to feed 5000 people!
After the story, we learnt a song:
"Jesus took the five little
loaves"
Jesus took the five little loaves (snap, snap, snap)
Then Jesus took the two little fish (snap, snap, snap)
Ch: Then looking up to heaven
He
gave thanks, He gave thanks.
Looking up to heaven....... He gave thanks
Five thousand were fed with five little loaves (snap,
snap, snap)
Five thousand were fed with two little fish (snap, snap,
snap)
Then we moved on to craft;
Materials Required:
1. Paper bag
2. White paper to draw fish and bread
3. Colors
4. Scissors
Our kids enjoyed making the baskets, bread loaves and
fishes.
You can download the worksheet for the story "miracle picnic" here.
