SOLAR SYSTEM

Greetings for the day !!

Learning about the Solar System? .

Yes, today we are sharing a fun filled activity for learning solar system. Each and every child have unique way of learning styles which makes them different from the other.

- Some children, read the book, understand the concept and learn, write the concepts thoroughly.
- Few loves only to read and learn the concepts but doesn't show interest in writing.
- Few will only love to write down their learnt concepts, doesn't show interest in telling or explaining or reading loudly.

  and there are many more learning approaches or unique styles.

Classroom observation or attending the whole session without distraction plays an important role in child's learning process.

- Some children will observe the teacher teaching in the class. Try to make notes or points to remember, read the learnt concepts back in home. Encourage such children to work more on making journals of their regular classroom activities to support their learning style.

- Few may not able to recollect the learning in the classroom, they don't remember the concepts. It doesn't mean that the child is having a learning difficulty or disability. Some of these children will be able to understand the concepts when taught through visuals of the concepts either by a drawing or videos or pictures.

In general, whatever may be their learning style, hands on experience activities by themselves will definitely make children to remember things better.

My son painted the Solar System, using finger prints and recollected the concepts thought in his class. He was able to rightly label the planets in order, spoke about the planets and galaxy. Here, comes how he created the solar system.

Materials Required :

Waste transparent snack box case
Poster colours

Steps Followed:

Clean the case. Dry it out. Draw concentric circles. Colour mark the planets using finger prints and decorate the system with stars.

Allow it to dry for 20 minutes and then label the planets.

Solar system is ready to study. Recreate your solar system and share your experience, how much you enjoyed the activity.

COLOURS OF DARKNESS

Today, we are sharing a scratch paper work created by my daughter with the theme Colours of Darkness for an art competition. 

She came with this art depicting Music, Stars in the sky and Sweet dreams during Night. They form the colours of darkness. Happy for her creation. 

Happy Parenting !!

HOLIDAY FUN ACTIVITY FOR KIDS - VIKING COSTUME FOR BOYS

Hi all,

With the current lockdown situation, to keep the children engaged, we scheduled their time with lots of fun activities. We are spending more time with them to have more quality moments. Excluding their online school classes, here we tried to have one such fun activity, dressing up like Viking Pirates. 

Our young kid is learning about Vikings in their Social/ History class, he speaks more about them, he crafted his own armour and axes at home. Today, I am sharing his virtual learning concept and crafts designed by himself to look like a Viking Pirate.

Materials Required :

Waste cardboard

Folder sticks -2

Drying cloth clips

Origami Sword

Hairbands

Horn Cutouts

Simple costume at home

Boots( Long Rain boots)

Steps to be followed :

1) Painted the cardboard to craft armour or shield.

2) Attach clips to the File sticks to shape axe.

3) Dress up your child in the costume. Viking Pirate is ready.

Happy Parenting !!!

ADJECTIVES PROJECT - ENGLISH PROJECT FOR PRIMARY YEARS

Art integrated Activities or Projects with children are always fun. Today, I am sharing an interesting activity for learning adjectives. This is an activity designed by me for my daughter in Class 2 for her English Project . Fixing the correct adjectives for the parts of an Elephant ....a really fun activity for kids as Long Trunk , Soft Eyes , Fat body , Small tail , Heavy legs , Sharp and big tusks , Big ears .

Materials Required: 

Thermocol board - 1
Tooth picks
A4 white sheet

Steps to be followed:

1) Draw an outline of an Elephant and mark their features.
2) Glue the adjectives to the tooth picks.
3) Paste the drawing to the thermocol board.
4) Start to play the activity, by asking the children to fix the correct adjective and fill the blanks in the drawing.

This is really a superb fun activity for the children. Feel free to share your comments.

Happy Parenting !

DIY - COW COSTUME FOR KIDS

A simple DIY - Cow costume which can designed in few minutes.

MATERIALS REQUIRED:

Cow face mask
Black coloured paper
White fleece jumper/sweat shirt and white track pant.

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Glue few round shaped pieces of the black coloured paper to the white jumper and the white track pant.

2)Make the kid wear the cow face mask.

A Simple 5 minute DIY Fancy dress costume is ready.

OZONE DEPLETION PROJECT FOR KIDS

Hi all ,

I am sharing an interesting and simple Science project for primary school Children, explaining Ozone depletion on the occasion of Earth day awareness week

As a part of parenting, scheduling our time with our children is the most important responsibility of us. Creating projects on their own will help children to gain knowledge about the theme taken, they would explore more and it's a practical way of learning. When children are involved in doing their school projects, they remember things in a better way or learn the concepts easily. Generally, projects are hands on experience activities for children.

Here, we designed a simple DIY model explaining the reasons or causes of Ozone depletion.

Learning process :

1) Explain the concept taken for the project. 

Our project is about Ozone depletion. Explain the children about it, by reading out the concept from textbooks or any articles. You can show them some videos as well. Make it like an interactive session.

2) Help them to write or make quick notes on what they have learnt.

3) Ask them, how they want to present their projects. Make their collective ideas.

4) Tell them that they should do on their own with the support from us.

5) Help them to get the required resources or materials for the project.

6) We ended up in doing a simple display self explanatory model. I involved children  to collect the pictures of various sources causing depletion like Refrigerator  (emitting Chlorofluro carbon), Factory(emission of CO2), Pesticides, Fire extinguishers, CO2 from vehicles, Forest fires and Deforestation.

7) We did a paper collage of earth surface. We used 4 kebab sticks, tooth picks and a thick base board.

8) We drew Sun and cut out the template.

9) Glue the pictures of Refrigerator, Aerosols, Air Conditioner, Deforestation to the tooth picks and pin it to the base board.

10) Design the model of the factory using play blocks, use a toy car, we used corn fibres for forest fire remains, small tins as Pesticides can. Glue it to the base board.

11) Glue 4 kebab sticks to the corners of Earth College with Sun paper cut in the centre piercing a ray of UV through Ozone layer because of depletion.



This model conveys and help the kids understands what are the toxic emissions that causes hole in ozone leading path for the direct UV rays from the sun.

3D PUZZLE ACTIVITY - 8 YEAR OLD'S CREATION

Puzzle activities is one of the fine choice of game for the children from 3+ years. Starting with jigsaw puzzle till 3D puzzles, many interesting themes are created for the children to learn about. If your children are having more screen time, get them more such activity to focus on. 

Puzzle solving focuses on child's shape/pattern recognition, hand & eye co-ordination, concentration, fine motor skill development, visual perceptual skill, memory, sense of judgement, creative and problem solving skills, reasoning and sense of pride, boast up the confidence and cognitive skills.

The End product of their creation will give them happiness, satisfaction and whole lot of achievement. 

Solving puzzles will always be an interesting learning programme for children. 

Recently, we got these 3D puzzles for my 8 year old to boast up his confidence level and to observe his problem solving and reasoning skills. 

We are happy to see the outcome of the puzzle activity by him solving it all alone without any support from us, following only the instructions booklet. 

Each creation has nearly 150-200 pieces. He completed all the three creations in a week's time. We truly adore his efforts, his timely act when something goes wrong or any mistakes done. He has proven his skills once again and makes us feel proud parents in teaching and giving them activities which focuses on his development.

Happy Parenting to all the lovely parents !