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.
We
have come up with fun activities to teach the children the letter formations
and to help them identify the Capital and Small form of each alphabet. This
week we have specially focused on the alphabet /s/ and continued on with the
Jolly song that we have already learnt for the alphabet. This time out little
tots made a beautiful craft of Mr. Hiss, the snake. As they sang along with
their own little Mr. Hiss, it not only helped them recognize the letter but
also helped them to develop their motor skills.
Here’s the song that they were singing
while doing the craft:
In our weekly
curriculum, the letter of this week is /s/.
As quoted by O. Fred Donaldson, “Children learn as they play.
Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn”, we have introduced
playful and fun activities that will teach our kids the Alphabet art and also
help them in recognizing the different alphabets. These activities also aid in
developing and enhancing the motor skills of our children. Through this
activity, our children had loads of fun as they put their creativity into play
and made their very own adorable Mr. Skinny Legs, the spider! They traced the shape of the spider to learn the formation of the letter
‘S’.
While doing the craft we were singing the famous sing-along,
The Itsy Bitsy spider climbed up the
waterspout. Down came the rain and washed the spider out. Out came the sun and dried up all the rain and the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the spout
again.
We started our day with Jolly Phonics. First we did our
letter story. Our kids enjoyed the story by pointing out to every character and
objects in the story. Then they loved waving their hand in 's' shape, like a snake
and said ssssssss.
The story narration was,
It is a sunny morning, and Sam is taking his dog, Samson,
for a walk. They like to walk down to the pond. Sam looks around as they walk
along. He sees a toadstool, a red and yellow caterpillar, and a blackbird on
her nest. When they get to the pond, they spend some time watching the fish
swim around. After a while, Samson goes off and snuffles around in the grass.
He finds a stick, which he brings back to Sam. He barks at Sam, and Sam throws
the stick for Samson to fetch. Samson runs around, looking for the stick in the
grass. Suddenly, Samson starts barking, “Woof, woof, woof!” Sam skips over to
see what Samson has found. “ssssss!” In front of Samson is a spotty snake. It
is rearing up and is hissing loudly. Sam grabs hold of Samson, and the snake slithers
quickly away.
They were even smart to point out to Sam and said "Sam
is wearing a sock, Sam is wearing a shoe"
On day 2 we created a story table with the letter sound /s/
The story goes like this,
One day Sammy the giraffe was getting ready to go to the
park. It was cold outside so he wore his scarf and he wore his socks. Then
arrived his friend sandy the dog. They both took a bus to the park and they enjoyed
playing there together.
Then we did blending and segmenting the simple words.
1. s-u-n
2. s-a-nd
3. s-o-ck
4. s-c-ar-f
were they can hear the sound of /s/ in the beginning
5. n-e-s-t
were they can hear the sound of /s/ in the middle
6. m-ou-se
7. b-u-s
were they can hear the sound of /s/ in the end
Finally we ended our day by doing craft. We made Mr. Hiss - the snake and Mr. Skinny Legs - the spider so they can trace over the shape of them in a fun learning way.
Our kids enjoyed making snake and spider with the help of
their mothers. They loved singing the song while doing the craft work.
The snake is in the grass.
The snake is in the grass.
/sss/! /sss/!
The snake is in the grass.
They also did the tracing of the letter S on the snake
and spider.
