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Make a story book !

29 May

Story book making – Helps in the following ways.

1. It helps to improve their ability to read.

2. Learning different stories with morals.

3. Progress to activities on comprehension.

4. Allows them to create their own story book by coloring and pasting.

5. Keeps their tiny hands busy in a creative way.

Things required:

1. Stories. Short stories from the web.

2. Relevant pictures with line drawing.

3. Thick A4 sheets. (200 gsm and above)

4. Glue stick

5. Colour pencils or crayons or pastels or water colours.

6. Scissors

To make the story book:

1. Align the story and the picture in a word document. (page layout – landscape, margins 0.5″, Table with 1 row and 2 column.

2. Make a cover page, just with the heading, author name, and a picture relevant to the story.

3. Print out the story in a A4 white /colour sheet (80gsm) and cut out in the margins.

4. Allow the tiny hands to play over the line drawings, using crayons, pastels or paint.

5. Fold the A4 sheet into half and glue the story page to the inside of the sheet.

6. Glue the cover page on the top.

7. Tada! Your story book is ready.

Tip:

Make more story books of this kind and keep in the most accessible place of your kid.

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Posted by Bhony on May 29, 2011 in All my posts !, Crafts, Creativity, Practical learning with materials

WORD a day !

26 May

This interesting craft helps me to build up my kid’s vocabulary.

Things required:

1. A4 sheets – 60 plain white sheets / Rules sheets

2. Construction paper – 6 different colours

3. Needle and a white thread

4. Glue

How to do?

Here we go..

1. Cut the 60 A4 white sheets into half to make 120 sheets.

2. 10 sheets from the 120 sheets for each month.

3. Fold the sheets into half and smooth the foldings.

4. Stitch it in the middle of the fold. ( 1. Pierce the needle exactly in the middle of the notebook from inside and bring it out, leaving about 5 cms of thread. 2. Pierce it again at another end and bring it in. 3. Bring the thread across the middle one and pierce it out at the other end. 4. Again bring the thread back inside through the center one. 5. Tie a knot tightly so that the pages wont move. 6. Cut off excess thread. Your notebook is ready)

5. For the cover: Cut the construction paper into halves. It make 12 pieces for 12 notebooks.

6. Glue one of the sides of the construction paper and place the note book over it and stick the first and last pages to the glued construction paper. Smooth the paper and allow it to dry. Now the cover is ready for your notebook.

7. Name it: Printout the name of the months and cut it with the craft scissors and glue it to the cover. Done!

8. Draw lines inside (if it is unruled) for the date month and year, and for the word and the explanation.

9. Tip : It will be more interesting if they try to make a sentence out of it. So, leave space for your sentence.

and..

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Posted by Bhony on May 26, 2011 in All my posts !, Crafts, Creativity, Vocabulary

Tags: Craft with words, Improve vocabulary in firdst graders, Vocabulary builder, Vocabulary for kids, Word a day, Word of the day, Words

Introduction to Odd and Even numbers

25 May

Odd and Even numbers are introduced using Cards and counters method.

Age group – ( 3.5 to 5 years) For detailed explanation, check the following link:

Cards and counters – Introduction

Things required:

1. Marbles – 55 pieces

2. Square cards – 10

How to play?

1. Write a number in each square card. ( 1 to 10)

2. Arrange the cards horizontally on the floor with space in between them.

3. Ask the child to arrange the marble in a way there is two in each row.

4. A marble without a pair sits in between the last two marbles. (as shown in the picture)

5. Now what? To find odd or even.. ask the child about the arrangement. Explain them that a set of marbles are arranged in pairs and others have one left without pair.

6. The marbles with the one last without pair blocks the pathway in between the rows. They are the odd ones.

7. The rest of the numbers where the marbles are unblocked are the even numbers.

8. Done! Blocked – Odd, Unblocked – Even.