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Early Childhood Commission

Term Two Parent Support Activity Plan

Week Three, Day One

Age: Four Year olds

Theme: Plants

Sub theme: What are Plants?

Circle Time

Name of Activity: Growing Up

Objectives: At the end of the activity, child/children should be able to:

1. Name at least 3 different seeds

2. Compare and contrast different seeds

3. Explain how new plants are formed

4. Identify plants as living things that do not move from place to place

Concept/Content:

New plants come from the seeds, stems, roots of older plants. Plants are

different from other living things: they do not move from place to place like

people or animals do.

Skills: Listening, observation, speaking, manipulation.

Resources: Seed Observation Sheet, plastic cups/bottles, seeds (pea, pumpkin,

corn) water, tissue/shredded newspaper, magnifying glass.

Activity Steps:

1. Child/children will take a variety of seeds from a seed box one at a time

and compare (using magnifying glass if necessary) and record the following

information on the Seed Observation sheet (see resources):

name of seed (orange, mango, Pumpkin, pear)

Size of seed (big, small, fat, thin, flat)

Colour of seed (white, orange, brown)

Type of seed (fruit, vegetable, tree)

Shape of seed (round, long)

2. Engage child/children in discussion about plants being living things like

humans/people who grow and breathe but they do not move from place-to-

place like us.

Culminating Activity: Children will plant peas and corn, in clear cups/bottles to

compare growth patterns. Observation will be done throughout the week and

recorded in their seed book.

Guided Learning

Name of Activity: Seed Graph


1. Count to 10

2. Write numerals 1 - 10

3. Identify equal amounts

4. Apply information from graph to discern more/less/equal amounts

Skills: Observation, manipulation, speaking, listening

Resources: Scrapbook, crayons, pencil, plain paper/paper plate to create graph,

Activity Steps:

1. From circle time activity, children will identify the fruit/food seeds and

say which ones they like/dislike.

2. Allow child/children to identify:

a. Which section has the most fruit/fruit seeds.

b. Which section has the least number of fruit/food seeds.

c. Which section has an equal number of fruit/food seeds.

3. Allow child/children to draw the graph in their scrap book, count the

number of seeds in each column and write the corresponding numeral.

Creative Activity

Name of Activity: Seed Mosaic


1. Arrange seeds to create a flower/plant

2. Identify different colours

Skills: Manipulation, speaking, observation

Resources: Seeds, paper, glue

Activity Steps:

1. Invite child/children to group seeds by colour.

2. Allow child/children to choose different colours to create a flower/plant.

Indoor/Outdoor Play

Name of Activity: Flower Grid Game


1. Follow given instructions

2. Display physical fitness by moving on request

3. Demonstrate an understanding of up and down

Skills: Listening, jumping, bending, understanding directions

Resources: Die, grid sheet, manipulatives (counters/small stones)

Activity Steps:

1. Invite child/children to roll a game die.

2. Allow child/children to identify the numeral on the die and count out that

number of manipulatives.

3. Have child/children place manipulatives over one picture in the grid.

Child/children play until the whole grid is full.

Story Time:

Name of Activity: Picture Sequencing


1. Arrange a set of pictures in sequential order.

2. Use pictures to narrate a story about plant growth.

Skills: Listening, speaking, observing

Resources: A set of pictures that show the stages of plant growth.

Activity Steps:

1. Allow child/children to review the stages of plant growth and what a plant

needs to grow.

2. Have the child/children look at the set of pictures and put them in

sequential order.

3. Assist child/children to create a short story based on the pictures. Write

the words of the story as child/children dictate them.

4. Read the story for child/children.

Follow-Up Activities: Paste the pictures on the pages of the story and allow

child/children to read their story at will.


Term One Parent Support Activity Plan

Week Three Day Two

Age: Four Year Olds

Theme: Plants

Sub theme: Parts of a Plant

Circle Time

Name of Activity: Picture Discussion


1. Observe at least two plants to identify differences

2. Count the number of parts on plants

3. Create a scrap book of different types of plants

Concept/Content:

Plants have different parts. Some parts are leaves, stem, roots, fruits, flowers

and seeds. Plants have different colours but most plants are green.

Skills: Speaking, observing, creating

Resources: Pictures of plants (with flowers and without flowers),

Activity: Picture Discussion

Activity Steps:

1. Show child/children a picture of a plant with a flower and a picture of a

plant without a flower.

2. Let child /children talk about the pictures and identify the differences

between both pictures.

3. Allow child/children to count the number of parts on each plant.

4. Discuss with child/children that some plants have flowers while others do

not.

Culminating Activity:

Culminating Activity: Children will make a scrapbook of plants with flowers and

plants without flowers.

Guided Learning:

Name of Activity: Group of Leaves

Objectives: At the end of the activity, child/ children should be able to:

1. Sort leaves of different colours

2. Group leaves according to colours

3. Count the number of leaves in each row

Skills: Counting, sorting, speaking, grouping

Resources: Green leaves and dried brown leaves

Activity Steps:

1. Provide child/children with at least two groups of leaves of the same

colour, one group of brown leaves and one group of green leaves.

2. Allow child/children to sort and group the brown leaves and place the

green leaves in another group.

3. Let child/children count how many leaves are in each group and write the

corresponding numerals below each group (not more than five leaves should

be in each group).

4. Allow child/children to talk about their work.

Creative Activity

Name of Activity: Painting a Flower


1. Follow instructions

2. Paint a flower

Skills: Painting, observing

Resources: Paint, paper, paint brushes

Activity Steps:

1. Let child/children choose a flower they want to paint.

2. Provide child/children with paint, paint brushes and paper.

3. Allow child/children to paint the flower as they desire.

4. Let child/children talk about the different colours they used in their

painting.

Indoor/Outdoor Play

Name of Activity: Fitting A Puzzle


1. Hop on one leg


3. Fit a plant puzzle

4. Talk about the parts of a plant

Skills: Hopping, listening, fitting a puzzle, speaking,

Resources: Plant puzzle

Activity Steps:

1. Place pieces of a plant puzzle at different locations outdoors.

2. Ask child/children to hop around the yard and collect each piece of the

puzzle. Instruct them to hop slow and to hop fast.

3. Allow child/children to fit the plant puzzle together when all the pieces

have been collected.

4. Allow child/children to talk about the puzzle they fitted.

Story Time:

Name of Activity: From Seeds to Plant


1. Listen to a story

2. Name the parts of the plant seen

3. Respond to questions from a story

Skills: Listening, speaking, drawing, colouring, predicting

Resources: Internet access, computer/phone/tablet, story, Seed to Plant’ by

Kristin Baird Rattini

Activity Steps:

1. Click link, www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1EE7AojPAw, view and listen to the

story, Seed to Plant (up to 2 minutes and 5 seconds).

2. Allow child/children to name the parts of a plant observed.

3. Engage child/children in discussion by asking the following questions:

a. How can we use our bodies to remember the arts of a plant?

b. Which parts of the plants do our arms represent? BRANCHES and

LEAVES

c. Which part of the plant do our feet represent? ROOTS.

Follow-Up Activities: Engage child/children in planting a seed, watering plants,

observing its growth and taking care of that plant.

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Term One Parent Support Activity Plan

Week Three, Day Three

Age: Four Year Olds

Theme: Plants


Circle Time

Name of Activity: Big and small plants with the /m/ sound


1. Differentiate between big/small plants

2. Make the /m/ sound

3. List at least two plants beginning with the initial /m/ sound

Concept/Content: The mango tree is a large plant. The mint is a small plant. The

words mango and mint begin with the /m/ sound. The /m/ sound is represented

by the letter m, the capital letter is written as M, and the common letter is

written as m.

Skills: Identifying, making letter sound

Resources: Letter Mm worksheets, crayons

Activity Steps:

1. Assist child/children to identify big/small plants from the home

environment.

2. From the plants identified in step 1, allow child/children to call out the

name of each plant with the initial /m/ sound. If these plants are not in

the environment you can use pictures.

3. Allow child/children to make the /m/ sound.

mango

mint

mammee

4. Allow child/children to name other things in and around the home with

initial /m/ sound.

Culminating Activity: From the worksheet, colour the pictures that begin with

the initial /m/ sound.

Guided Learning:

Name of Activity: Capital and Common Mm


1. Differentiate between capital and common letter M

2. Trace a capital and a common letter M

3. Identify at least two objects with the initial /m/ sound

Skills: Speaking, listening, colouring, differentiating

Resources: Worksheets, tablet/phone/computer, internet access.

Activity Steps:

1. Click link https://youtu.be/WFMI-cV9sq8 view and listen to the song

‘Learn The Letter M | Let's Learn About The Alphabet | Phonics Song for

Kids | Jack Hartmann’.

2. Engage child/children in discussion about the capital M and common m.

Give child/children worksheet and allow them to trace the capital and

common Mm.

3. On the worksheet below, allow child/children to:

a. Colour the capital and common Mm.

b. Colour the pictures beginning with letter ‘Mm’.

c. Colour the circles with capital M and common m.

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Creative Activity

Name of Activity: Chlorophyll Rubbing


1. Talk about the green substance in green leaves

2. Follow instructions.

Skills: Creative painting

Resources: Drawn trunk of a tree, green leaves

Activity Steps:

1. Assist child/children in picking leaves from trees outdoor. Make sure the

leaves are safe for handling by child/children.

2. Provide child/children with a tree template.

3. Allow child/children to rub the green leaves on the paper.

Indoor/Outdoor Play

Name of Activity: Hopscotch


1. Maintain their balance while jumping

2. Participate in hopscotch game


Skills: Jumping, balancing, running

Resources: Drawn hopscotch on floor, two basins, water, bottle

Activity Steps:

1. Draw a hopscotch on the ground, using numbers 1 to 10.

2. Prepare a station away from the hopscotch with a basin of water, an empty

basin and a bottle.

3. Engage child/children in the game of hopscotch starting at number 1.

4. Instruct child/children to run to the basin of water when they get to

number 10 on the hopscotch.

5. Ask child/children to fill the bottle two times and pour the water into the

empty basin.

6. Allow child/children to run back to the hopscotch and complete the game

by jumping from number 10 to number 1.

7. Repeat steps 3-6 as often as desired, with parent participating.

Story Time:

Name of Activity: From Seed to Plant



2. Participate in a discussion about a story

3. Role play events in a story

Skills: Speaking, listening, role-playing

Resources: Tablet/phone/computer, internet access.

Activity Steps:

1. Click link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1EE7AojPAw view and listen

to the story ‘ From seed to Plant’

2. Engage child/children in a discussion about the story by asking the

following questions:

a. What is the title of the story?

b. What is a plant?

c. Name two things that plants can be used for?

3. Allow child/children to role-play being a seed and growing up into a plant.

Follow-Up Activities: Allow child/children to write two things that a plant needs

to grow.

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Term Two Parent Support Activity Plans

Week Three, Day Four

Age: Four Year Olds

Theme: Plants


Circle Time

Objectives: At the end the end of the activity, child/children will be able to:

1. Identify two leaves that can be used as food

2. Describe changes observed in leaves

3. Colour within a given space

Concept/Content: Leaves are important to plants; they help to make the food that

helps them to grow. Some leaves have different colours, such as green, brown,

yellow, red, white and orange. Some leaves can be used as food. Some leaves have

more than one colour; such as green and white, red and brown and green and

yellow.

Skills: Differentiating, colouring, describing

Resources: Pictures of plants or real plants, crayons, outline of a leaf

Activity steps:

1. Engage child/children in singing the song or saying the words of the song

‘Please come and see my rabbit’.

Song

Please come and see my rabbit,

My little white rabbit,

There’s no one as sweeter as Peter to me.

I love to give him lettuce, cabbage and carrots,

he wiggled up his nosy, pink nosy at me.

2. Engage child/children in a discussion about the song by asking the following

questions:

a. Which part of the lettuce do you think the rabbit eats?

b. What colour is the lettuce?

c. Which part of the cabbage do you think the rabbit eats?

d. What colour is the cabbage?

e. Which part of the carrot do you think the rabbit eats?

f. Have you ever eaten lettuce or cabbage?

g. How do lettuce and cabbage taste?

h. Tell me the names of some other leaves that you eat.

3. Invite child/children to look at other leafy plants including callaloo and pak

choi.

4. Ask child/children to describe the colour of the leaves and say whether or

not they can be eaten.

5. Help child/children to plant a lettuce, pak choi or callaloo seed in a cup of

soil and water it. Have them observe the changes over time.

6. Allow child/children to colour a large leaf using colours of their choice.

Guided Learning

Name of Activity: Searching for Mm


1. Reproduce the /m/ sound

2. Tell some words that begin with the initial /m/ sound

3. Recognize letter M from among other letters

Skills: Listening, speaking

Resources: Letter M worksheet

Activity Steps:

1. Invite child/children to sing the ‘every letter makes a sound the M says

/m/’ song. Repeat the song three times.

2. Ask child/children to make the sound of the letter M.

3. Demonstrate forming letter m in the air and encourage child/children to

use their fingers to form letter m in the air.

4. Encourage child/children to name three things that begin with the letter M.

5. Invite child/children to complete the letter M worksheet by tracing the

letter M and colouring all the circles with letter Mm (See Appendix)

Guided Creative Activity

Name of Activity: Rainbow Leaf Print


1. Create rainbow leaf prints by applying colours to leaves


Skills: Colouring, printing

Resources: Three large leaves, assorted colour markers, plain white paper

Activity Steps:

1. Provide child/children with plain white paper, assorted colour markers and 3

large leaves.

2. Instruct child/children to lay the smooth side of the leaf down and the

rougher side facing up.

3. Allow child/children to colour the entire leaf using various colour markers.

4. Assist child/children to turn the coloured part of the leaf onto the plain

white paper and press gently.

5. Allow child/children to repeat Steps 2- 4 for the other leaves.

Indoor/Outdoor Play

Name of Activity: One, Two, Three, Green Leaf

Objectives: At the end of activity, child/ children should be able to:

1. Follow rules of a game

2. Move body parts

3. Wait their turn

Skills: Stretching

Resources: The body

Activity Steps

1. Ask child/children to stand at a marked starting line.

2. Explain to child/children that they will move forward by hopping, sliding or

walking forward to touch you only when your back is turned. When you turn

to look, they must stop. If anyone is seen moving, they will be out of the

game.

3. Tell child/children that the first person to touch you wins the game and will

get a chance to call, One Two Three, Green Leaf.

4. Stand about 10 feet away with your back turned.

5. Say one, two, three, green leaf then turn around quickly to look at

child/children.

6. Play the game until a child/children touches you.

7. Allow the winner to lead the game. Play a few times to allow everyone to get

a chance.

Story Time

Name of Activity: Plants Feed Me by Lizzy Rockwell


1. Respond from a story

2. Share events from a story

Skills: Listening, speaking, recalling

Resources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-J9ZifyqSE&feature=youtu.be

Activity Steps:

1. Sing along with child/children, Story time is lots of fun or any other story

time song.

2. Click link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-

J9ZifyqSE&feature=youtu.be view and listen to the story, ‘Plants Feed Me’.

3. Engage child/children in a discussion about the story by asking the following

questions:

a. What are the names of two plants that we eat from the stems?

b. What are the names of two plants that we eat the roots?

c. What are the names of two plants that we eat the leaves?

d. Can we eat all roots, leaves and stems? Why do you think so?

4. Help child/children to write a short sentence telling one thing they learnt from

the story.

Follow-Up Activities:

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1. Assist child/children in collecting pictures to make a booklet about parts of

the plant that can be eaten.

2. Engage child/children in discussion to identify the parts of the plants they

are eating during meal times.


Term Two Parent Support Activity Plans

Week Three, Day Five

Age: Four Year Olds

Theme: Plants


Circle Time

Objectives: At the end the end of the activity, child/children will be able to:

1. Sort leaves into at least three groups

2. Describe objects based on their characteristics

3. Count the number of items in a set

Concept/Content: Leaves have different shapes for example, round, oval and

heart-shaped. Some leaves are long and pointed e.g. grass and sugarcane.

Leaves have different sizes, some leaves are large and small.

Skills: Sorting, counting, grouping

Resources: Leaves, paper, chalk/marker

Activity steps:

1. Allow child/children to collect fallen leaves of various colours, shapes and

sizes.

2. Ask child/children to describe the leaves.

3. Draw two large circles overlapping each other on a large sheet of paper or

on the floor using chalk/erasable markers.

4. Allow child/children to sort the leaves that are green only and place them in

one side of the circle.

5. Ask child/children to sort leaves that have yellow only and place them in the

other circle.

6. Provide support and have child/children decide where the leaves with green

and yellow would go- Inside the part of the circles that overlap.

7. Ask child/children to put the leaves of different colours outside the circle.

8. Allow child/children to count and write the number of leaves in each set.

Guided Learning

Name of Activity: Leaf Sorting


1. Classify leaves based on shape and size

2. Count items in a set


Skills: Sorting, classifying, counting

Resources: A variety of leaves collected from outside

Activity Steps:

1. Instruct child/children to lay the leaves out on a flat surface using the

leaves from the previous activities.

2. Ask child/children to sort the leaves based on shape and size in separate

groups.

3. Ask child/children to count each group of leaves and write the

corresponding numeral beside each group.

Guided Creative Activity

Name of Activity: Colour Mixing


1. Make predictions about colour

2. Experiment by mixing primary colours to get secondary colours


Skills: Predicting, investigating, comparing

Resources: Paint (red, yellow, blue), plain sheet of paper, three paint brushes, one

large container

Activity Steps:

1. Place three containers with red, yellow and blue paint on a flat surface along

with a plain sheet of paper and the colour mixing worksheet (see appendix).

2. Allow child/children to touch and name the colour paint in each container.

3. Explain that mixing two of these colours together gives us a different

colour.

4. Allow child/children to make predictions by asking, “what colour do you think

we will get if we mix red and yellow?” Allow child/children to respond.

5. Invite child/children to mix the colours together.

6. Allow child/children to continue making predictions and mixing the colours on

the worksheet.

7. Ask child/children to name the new colours.

Indoor/Outdoor Play

Name of Activity: Simon Says


1. Hop on one leg

2. Identify basic geometric shapes (triangle, square, circle and star)


Skills: Jumping, hopping, jogging

Resources: Tape, blank paper

Activity Steps:

1. Make an outline of four geometric shapes outside using tape. (Large shapes

can be drawn on blank paper and placed on the ground 16 inches apart).

2. Instruct child/children to hop three times on one leg in the triangle, jump

four times in the square, jog on the spot five times in the circle and do a

funny dance in the star.

3. Repeat the activity. Praise child/children throughout the activity.

Story Time

Name of Activity: ‘Up Down and Around’



2. Respond to at least five questions from a story

3. List the steps involved in planting a seed

4. Express likes and dislikes for food

Skills: Recalling, speaking, listening

Resources: Story, ‘Up Down and Around’ by Katherine Ayres

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQYPuJXkVpY

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Activity Steps:

1. Click linkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQYPuJXkVpY. Invite

child/children to watch and listen to the story “Up Down and Around” by

Katherine Ayres

2. Ask child/children to respond to simple questions related to the story, for

example:

a. What did the father and his son do first when planting?

b. List some of the things in the picture

c. What do you think they are planting?

d. What do you think a scarecrow is used for?

e. List some of the plants that grows up and some that grows down

f. Name some plants that grow around and around.

3. Invite child/children to list some favourite foods from the story.

4. Provide a plain sheet of paper and ask the child/children to draw and colour two

of their favourite foods.

Follow-Up Activities:

1. Provide child/children with some resources, (scraps of colour paper,

disposable plate and buttons) and invite them to make the face of a

scarecrow for their little garden.

Week Three Resources

Day One

Circle Time

SEED OBSERVATION SHEET Instructions: Circle the one in each row that describes the seed.

Name of Seed Size of seed Colour of Seed Type of Seed Shape of Seed

Orange Big Fat Small Thin Flat

White Orange Brown

Fruit Vegetable Tree

Round Oval Long

Mango Big Fat Small Thin Flat

White Orange Brown


Round Oval Long

Pumpkin

Big Fat Small Thin Flat

White Orange Brown


Round Oval Long

Peer Big Fat Small Thin Flat

White Orange Brown


Round Oval Long

Guided Learning

Creative Activity

Indoor/Outdoor Game

Story Time



Day Two

Circle Time

Guided Learning

Guided Creative

Outdoor Play

Story Time



Day Three

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Circle Time

Guided Learning



Day Four

Circle Time

Song

Please come and see my rabbit,

My little white rabbit,

There’s no one as sweeter as Peter to me.

I love to give him lettuce, cabbage and carrots,

he wiggled up his nosy, pink nosy at me.

Picture of leaf to be coloured

Pictures of different types of leaves

Pak Choi

Cabbage

Callaloo

Croton

Joseph’s Coat

Guided Learning



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