Course 4

Course 4

Activity 1

Creative art activity: Constructing a 3 dimensional pencil

Duration: 20 –30 minutes

What do you need?

  • An empty kitchen towel roll
  • Some yellow paint in a shallow dish

*Caregiver to prepare above, as well as the following ahead of time:

  • Pre-drawn shapes on colour paper:-White or brown paper: a large circle; Black paper: a small circle; Pink paper: a circle (Parent to use the kitchen towel roll holder).
  • Sponge or paint brush
  • Glue

What to do:

  1. Firstly have your child sponge paint the kitchen towel roll yellow.
  2. Then allow it to dry by positioning it in a warm sunny area to dry
  3. Your child must then begin to cut out the various pre-drawn shapes out of the colour pages.
  4. Caregiver to provide support to learner to construct the finished pencil by positioning each shape and colour (as shown) using glue to support.
  5. Discuss the following spatial concepts with your child as he/she builds: top, on top of it/ above; bottom/ underneath, in front, at the back of/behind

Activity 2

Mathematics: Sorting according to colour names 

Duration: 10-15 minutes 

What do I need? 

  • Bottle tops / or even crayons (assorted colours: ( orange, red green, purple , blue, white and yellow) 
  • 7 White paper plates 
  • Marker

What to do 

  • Parent/ Caregiver is to write down colour names onto each paper plate using the marker (orange, red green, purple , blue, white and yellow )
  • The child is then instructed to sort the different colour bottle tops and place them on the paper plate with the corresponding colour name on (as shown)

Activity  3

Story: The Three Little Pigs 

Duration: 7-10 minutes

What do we need?

  • Copy of the story for your child to either listen to or read along by use of a book/pictures

What to do?

  1. Tell your child the story/have him/her watch and listen to it via a book; pictures or visual-audio device
  2. Remember to have your child try and retell the story to you, with a special focus on the sequence of events.
  3. Ask him/her simple questions relating to the story afterwards. 
  4. Have your child retell you the story and ask you questions afterwards.

Use the following youtube video to watch below