I am so excited to continue to explore Empathy this week through enhancing understandings of Social Awareness. By showing care and kindness for each other we foster empathy. If we treat each other with kindness we contributing to a more empathetic society. Children can show that they care for their families and community by giving 'Random Acts of Kindness'. Spend time with your child talking about different ways we can be kind to each other at school and at home. Create a list of ways to be kind at home/school and then make a calendar of acts to complete in a month. Watch your child grow empathy and document successes. Your child can also participate in a 'Happy Heart Hunt' project. Click on the picture below to explore this project. You can download 'The Great Kindness challenge' family check list. This is the list of ideas to promote 'acts of kindness'. Help you child grow empathy by taking a kind action. Assignment 1 As a class we are going to create our own gift cards to donate them to our school community. You can explore the project ideas for building kindness by checking the link below. https://www.randomactsofkindness.org/kindness-ideas Here is the link to check out the idea of creating the gift card. https://www.randomactsofkindness.org/kindness-ideas/883-give-a-gift-card Get creative! Think about a person you would like to give a card. Think about supportive message you would like to deliver. Make up a sentence or two. Create a drawing to go with your message. Drop your card off at school. Enjoy the process! Continue to read daily with your child for at least 10-15 minutes with the focus on reading strategies covered over the year. Talk about the characters, topics of interest, discuss why you child likes/doesn`t like a certain character, etc. Other fun activities can include: -Share rhymes, poems and songs. Encourage your child to join in. -Share and talk about family histories and family photos. -Look at picture books or art books. Ask your child to describe what is happening in the pictures and make up stories together. -Collect cardboard and other household items for your child to build with. Ask your child to describe what they are building. -Look at ‘junk mail’ and talk about the things for sale. -Listen to simple radio programs or podcasts together and discuss the content. -Play vocabulary games with your child such as, “what’s the opposite of ….?” (for example, “what’s the opposite of big?”) and “what’s another word for….?” (for example, “what’s another word for angry?”). Oral storytelling Storytelling is a great way to extend your child’s speaking and listening skills, and to expand their memory and imagination. Either you can tell the story, or you can encourage your child to tell the story. Storytelling might be about: -your child’s favourite toy -another family member -a pet -a favourite fictional character from a book or television program -a famous person -the work of people from different professions, such as astronauts, firefighters, nurses and teachers -an imaginary world with imaginary characters » an imaginary animal that can speak. Here are some tips to start your storytelling: -Make it exciting, with different voices, puppets, or a finger play. -Have a dress-up box for your child to use for storytelling and imaginative play. -Start with what interests your child. -Start by creating a character and a setting. Numeracy Continue with daily numeracy through counting everyday. You can incorporate counting into everyday activities such as: -Cut fruit into six pieces and ask your child to count the pieces. -Count the pieces of toast you cooked at breakfast. -Add the total number of cutlery items at the table. -Count the number of people travelling in the car or on the bus. -Count the number of houses as you walk along the street. -Count how many steps it takes to walk from the kitchen to the bathroom. -Practise counting when grocery shopping with your child (for example, counting the number of apples you put into the bag). -Encourage your child to talk about the number of things in the pictures they draw. Hunting for numbers Number hunts are a fun and engaging activity for your child. Ask your child to find numbers around you. Look at and say the numbers on car number plates, signs, calendars, newspapers, shopping catalogues, speed signs, and houses. Using playing cards Playing with cards is always a fun activity, particularly on a rainy day or on holidays. You can: » Play matching number games like ‘Snap’ with playing cards. » Order the numbers on the cards from smallest to largest, or largest to smallest. Playing shop Playing shop helps ground your child’s maths learning in the real world while also developing their social skills. One way to play shop is to create a mini-shop at home. Here are a few tips and activities: -Collect food and grocery items and label them with prices written on sticky notes, or prices cut out of shopping catalogues. -Talk about how we pay for items using coins, notes and cards. -Make paper money or use play money to buy and sell goods from the mini-shop. -Collect old receipts or price tags and use them in the minishop. -Notice the features of different coins, including their shapes and the animals and people shown. Discuss the differences. Create coin rubbings with pencils and paper. -Encourage your child to order food items by height (tallest to the shortest) or by cost (least expensive to most expensive). -Introduce kitchen scales to the mini-shop to weigh foods, such as a box of tea bags or a bag of rice, and order items by weight. Assignment 1 Review counting on numbers 0-30. Fill in the missing numbers. Assignment 2 Use a number line to practice adding numbers 1-10 Assignment 3 What comes after a certain number? Improve your number count. Enjoy your week and send me more photos of your child`s activities!
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