EARLY YEARS 1 - HOME LEARNING

TERM 4 - WEEK 1 DATE: 24th March – 27th March

LEARNING GOALS FOCUS LEARNING HOME CONNECTION
DAY 1 Warm-up: Stretching movement. Stretch and count
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24th March Circle time: Recitation of 1st kalma, days of the week and Topic Spring (Talk about the spring atch?v=_DnlDT-cCNE
LEARNING STRANDS: seasons and what can you see in springtime) and draw flowers on the paper.
• Using gestures When spring comes
and body Storytime: kids will listen to the story “When spring comes” and retell it in their own words. https://www.youtube.com/w
movement to atch?v=Q_kNU3XpMew
communicate Math: Reinforcement of numbers 1-14 through counting different materials such as buttons,
• Using language glasses, spoons, fans, cupboards, etc. Jolly phonic song a-z
to recall events Writing numbers with paint on blank paper https://www.youtube.com/w
• Exploring and atch?v=euxN7LGOoLc
creating 2D Phonics: Reinforcement of sounds a-z through a song and book. Hurf-e-tahaji
and 3D artwork Writing phonics on the paper. https://www.youtube.com/w
• Exploring
weather atch?v=Ba2YpmRrO04
Urdu: Reinforcement of Urdu sound-letter Alif-Swad through a song and story
• Exploring the Tracing sounds in salt or rice. (take any small tray and turn it into a learning tool by adding salt or
weather and Foil Painted Moon
rice (you may add food colour to it to make it more fun).
seasons https://www.pinterest.com/
• Developing fine pin/481603753902784769/
IEYC: Reinforcing about the Moon and moon rock through playing different games such as:
and gross • where is the Moon hiding? Cut out a Moon and hide it around your home and ask your child
motor skills Moon rock
to look for it),
• Using the https://www.pinterest.com/
• Moon making with art and craft materials such as play dough, etc. pin/134193263875242102/
senses to
• Crater toss (the child will get 3 moon rock and they need to target it inside the hoop or make
explore
materials and
a circle with tape that represents island).
textures • Moonrock - you can make moon rock by covering small pebble/cotton/paper ball or
• Exploring how anything in foil and make moon rock out of it.
we move
• Exploring the
sky, moon, sun
and stars

DAY 2 Warm-up: Exploring movement such as clapping, crawling, flapping arms like a bird, fast and We are going on the bear
slow jog, forward and backward walk, fast running, etc. hunt
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Circle time: Recitation of Surah-E-Ikhlas, Weather, and learning about self-safety how to make us atch?v=kL36gMrHJaI
safe from danger.

Storytime: kids will listen to the story “We are going on the bear hunt” and retell it in their own Playdough smash game
words. https://www.pinterest.com/
pin/28640147617631332/
Math: Reinforcement of numbers 1-14 through playdough smash game Shapes song
Reinforcing 2D shapes through exploring shapes in daily life objects https://www.youtube.com/w
Activity sheet (shapes). atch?v=OEbRDtCAFdU
Jolly phonic song a-z
Phonics: Reinforcement of sounds through hide and seek game (parent will hide sound cards and https://www.youtube.com/w
kids will look for it) atch?v=euxN7LGOoLc
Phonic worksheet
Hurf-e-Tahaji
Urdu: Reinforcement of Urdu sound-letter Alif-Swad through hunt game (sound hunt in red beans https://www.youtube.com/w
or any other available material) atch?v=Ba2YpmRrO04

IEYC: Children will explore different vehicles through an action song.

Transportation song
Children will explore toy vehicles. You can help your child to sort the transport types into those
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that fly, those that drive on the road, and those that might travel in the water. also talk about
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astronauts and how they transport too. What takes them into space e.g. rockets and moon buggies,
which they can use to drive around the surface of the moon.
Astronauts
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atch?v=HSYaEBcl8xI

Warm-up: Simon Says song Simon says song

DAY 3 https://www.youtube.com/w
Circle time: Recitation of dua before sleeping, Weather, and learning about hygiene and healthy atch?v=OkO8DaPIyXo
26th March eating (Eat healthy food and drink plenty of water to stay hydrated. Wash your hands properly and Storybook Fidgety Fish
use hand sanitizer.) https://www.youtube.com/w
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Storytime: kids will listen to the story “Fidgety Fish” and retell it in their own words Number song 1-20
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Math: Oral counting 1-20 through different actions such as clapping, tapping, hopping, jumping, atch?v=D0Ajq682yrA
rolling, etc.
 Reinforcement of concepts tall and short, in and out through showing tall and short objects and “at” word family
putting things in and out of the box/basket/bag, etc. https://www.youtube.com/w
Writing numbers with chalk atch?v=mKFuUeg6PUo

Blending book
Phonics: Reinforcement of at words such as cat, mat, bat, hat, fat through a blending book.
Writing phonics with crayons https://www.pinterest.com/
pin/211950726189228498/
EPL: Spooning and cutting Spooning
https://sugarspiceandglitter.c
om/practical-life-spooning-
exercise/
Paper cutting
IEYC: Show children images of Moon buggies through google search also compare the moon https://www.pinterest.com/
buggy with a similar vehicle such as a car or a jeep. pin/108790147236451433/
Give them construction kit/Legos for making moon buggies or they can make it with cardboard Moon buggies
boxes. https://www.pinterest.com/
pin/461830136760585458/
Moon buggies
http://technologytom.com/h
tml/moon_buggies.html

DAY 4 Warm-up: Minion dance Minion dance

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27th March Circle time: Surah-e- Ikhlas, Weather, season and learning the concept thick/thin, near and far atch?v=FP0wgVhUC9w
(through showing different thick and thin objects and go near and far and ask them)
Plant the tiny tree
Storytime: kids will listen to the story “Plant the tiny tree” and ask them to retell it in their own https://www.youtube.com/w
words atch?v=MHRDM5nb8Ks
High five number game
Math: Counting 1-14 through different actions high five number game (stick the number cards on https://www.pinterest.com/
the wall and ask them to give high five to number 5,6, etc.) pin/225531893812941320/
Number worksheet

Phonics: Reinforcement of “ap” words such as cap, map, nap, gap, hap, tap, etc. through making Word family “ap”
words with sound cards or magnetic sounds. https://www.youtube.com/w
Phonic worksheet atch?v=w9FL2-cSRuE
Urdu: Reinforcement of Urdu letter-sound Alif-Swad through a book or song
Writing Urdu sounds in rice Alif, bay, pay song
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IEYC: Children will be introduced to planet Moonbeam and ask them to imagine your planet in atch?v=G2ueGTGVCuM
any way that they wish (it can be ice planet or slime planet, desert planet, forest planet, etc.)
Kids will make anyone planet from the following Snowflake fork painting
Ice planet https://www.pinterest.com/
They need to make snowballs with cotton and paint snowflakes. pin/265782815493083574/
Forest planet Rescuing objects
They can o make a green and brown paper chain. https://www.pinterest.com/
Slime planet pin/209417451392456594/
They might make slime too Paper chain
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pin/815573813762737563/
Leaf painting
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pin/242842604884456266/

Slime
https://www.pinterest.com/
pin/560346378633264765/