FOUNDATION STAGE - 2 My week in school from, January 19 to 23, 2014 Theme of the week: Birds and InsectsCommunication & LanguagePhysical DevelopmentPersonal Social and Emotional DevelopmentLiteracyFocusing on insects and birdsVocabulary, sentences and story building.Students will use new vocabulary words to build sentences and construct a story on birds and insects. The Teacher will guide the students with questions to form the story and small scenes will be then dramatized by the students after.

Free flow area

The teacher will gather the students first in front of the puppet theater where they will have a short puppet show about birds and insects and then the students will be given the chance to choose an area as kids enjoy playing in the area of their choice.

What is an insect?

Flash cards on Insects

Students will go to jungle gym area where children will be involved in free play and planned activities to enable them to develop their fine and gross motor skills. Exploring the jungle gym to reinforce words like crawling, jumping, creeping, climbing and sliding-using movements to express them.

Talk about insects and Discussion on where their live? What they eat? How they move? And about the characteristics of insects.Story on insects

Students will involve in role play enacting like insects and will speak a few sentences on them.Facts on insects

Story - The ant and the grasshopper

The Caterpillars Dream

Recapitulation of Opposites, Singular/Plural and sentence construction.One and Many and Opposites.Reading the one and many and Opposite words.Writing the Opposites, singular and plural and simple sentences.Writing 2 to 3 sentences using a picture.

These are cats.They have 2 eyes and 4 legs.It is a pet animal.illustrating the picture based on the word

Making sentences using the words.

Building 2 line short stories on the Opposites Eg: The boy had a big ball

OLA- Sand Play Students will be divided into three groups. One group will find the flash cards with words, another group will find the opposite of the word and the third group will form a sentence using the opposites.

Song on Opposites

One and Many

MathematicsUnderstanding the WorldExpressive Arts and DesignParental involvementStudents will revise the previous knowledge of numbers through flash cards and objects.

Students will revise number names 1 to 30.

Students will be introduced to Numbers 31 to 40The students will learn numbers 31 to 40 through counting, sorting, adding beads and threading the numbers in a sequence. Worksheet on numbers. Students will write numbers 31 to 40 Using various medium like tracing, forming with clay, filling in the missing numbers and placing the numbers in the right order.

Students will do worksheet and workbook on number 31 to 40.

number song

Count Count Count

Students will be identifying the difference between birds and insects.Birds and insects both can fly; they both do not have the same body structures or characteristics.There is a huge difference in their size as well. While there are some bird species that are small, still they are not as small as insects. Generally birds are bigger than insectsRecapitulation on the characteristics of insects and birds.Insect bodies have three parts, the thorax, abdomen and head.Insects have two antennae.Insects have three pairs of legs.

Insects eat more plants than any other creatures on earth. They are small and most of them can fly.Facts on insects

6 thinking hat strategyWhite hat- facts about the insects and birds.

Yellow hat- what is the benefit of the honey bee? Black hat- what would happen if the birds fall in the water? Red hat- how would the boy feel if he was bit by the insect?Green hat-How can we help hungry birds and insects? What do you think they will do?

Students will watch video related to different types of insects and birds.Students will draw a bird and insects and discuss the difference between both.

Song on Insects

Students will make artwork on butterfly using paper plate and a birds nest using paper plate.

This week students will be learning the difference between birds and insects. The students will become familiar with the names of many insects and insects, their characteristics and difference.

To develop observation skills you can show your child pictures of insects and birds from books or magazines.

If students have any plastic or a soft toy of insects and birds then they can bring it to school to share with the class.

Enhance vocabulary for the Opposites and Singular and Plural.

Encourage the kids to speak in complete sentences.

Use the links given in the planner.

Reading stories is a great way of language enhancement.

Numbers 1 to 40 could be practiced.

Enjoy your child!!