Course 4

Course 4


Activity 1

Clean clothes 

Duration: 10-15 minutes

What do you need?

  • *Pre-cut out template of a teddy bear or doll of about 20-30cm long. *(Parent to prepare beforehand using hard cardboard)
  • Old off cut small pieces of material 
  • Glue 

What to do:

  1. Avail the cardboard template of either a doll or teddy bear to your child.
  2. Explain to your child that he/she will be pasting material (clothes) onto the figure using the material and glue.
  3. Talk to your child about why it is important to dress in clean clothing everyday
  4. Allow your child take the pieces of material and position it as clothing onto the figure and then pasting it down with glue to dress the teddy or the doll

Activity 2

Fantasy play 

Duration: 5-10 minutes

What you need?

  • Activity 1 figure or an actual teddy
  • Imagination 
  • Any toys your child wishes to add

What to do: 

  1. Allow your child to play imaginatively and just to have fun.
  2. Please play with if you can. 
  3. Watch how your little one explores and gets creative with fantasy play.

Activity 3

Counting mathematics

Duration: 5-10 minutes

What do you need?

  • A variety of personal hygiene items (that are same for little one to handle) example: bars of soap, tooth brushes, packets of tissues, etc.
  • Paper and a crayon

What to do:

  1. *Caregiver is to display the various hygiene products on a table.
  2. Ask your child the following questions: 1) Name the products? ; 2) What it is used for? ; 3) Which item is the smallest? 4) Which item is the biggest?
  3. Next ask your child to count how many products there are. Remember to touch count and count out aloud with your child.
  4. * Parent to assist with writing down the number symbol matching the total of each product on a sheet of paper. (Example: 2 bars of soap- write down 2 etc.)
  5. Ask your child to count and then you could write the total, or give your child the chance to try (*Parent could write the symbol out using a dot to dot method your child to copy over it to complete the number symbol)

*Counting and number recognition are skills that children will learn through games, activities and play. They key to counting is learning one to one correspondence (pointing to each item and allocating it a number).