THEME BASED HOLIDAY HOMEWORK Dear Parent Warm Greetings! Summer Holidays are the best opportunities to spend some quality time with your ward. To keep your child engaged while indoors, few interesting activities weaved around a beautiful story has been framed by the teachers While children enjoy the summer break, they experience summer learning loss if they don t practice their skills. The fun-filled educational program that has been designed will help your child to succeed, when they are back to school. The skill based activities will enable students to groom their : Critical Thinking Skills Listening Skills Speaking,Writing and Reading skills Reasoning, Personal and Social skills. Artistic and Creative skills. Numerical and logical skills Guide, share and observe how Summer Learning can help your children do their very best. Happy Vacation!!!!
Developing Reading Skills Read the story to your child with Clarity and Expression. The Story of Goldilocks And The Three Bears Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Goldilocks. She went for a walk in the forest. Pretty soon, she came upon a house. She knocked and, when no one answered, she walked right in.at the table in the kitchen, there were three bowls of porridge. Goldilocks was hungry. She tasted the porridge from the first bowl. "This porridge is too hot!" she exclaimed. So, she tasted the porridge from the second bowl. "This porridge is too cold," she said so, she tasted the last bowl of porridge. "Ahhh, this porridge is just right," she said happily and she ate it all up. After she'd eaten the three bears' breakfasts she decided she was feeling a little tired. So, she walked into the living room where she saw three chairs. Goldilocks sat in the first chair to rest her feet. "This chair is too big!" she exclaimed. So she sat in the second chair. "This chair is too big, too!" she whined. So she tried the last and smallest chair. "Ahhh, this chair is just right," she sighed. But just as she settled down into the chair to rest, it broke into pieces! Goldilocks was very tired by this time, so she went upstairs to the bedroom. She lay down in the first bed, but it was too hard. Then she lay in the second bed, but it was too soft. Then she lay down in the third bed and it was just right. Goldilocks fell asleep. As she was sleeping, the three bears came home. "Someone's been eating my porridge," growled the Papa bear. "Someone's been eating my porridge," said the Mama bear. "Someone's been eating my porridge and they ate it all up!" cried the baby bear. "Someone's been sitting in my chair," growled the Papa bear.
"Someone's been sitting in my chair," said the Mama bear. "Someone's been sitting in my chair and they've broken it all to pieces," cried the Baby bear. They decided to look around some more and when they got upstairs to the bedroom, Papa bear growled, "Someone's been sleeping in my bed," "Someone's been sleeping in my bed, too" said the Mama bear "Someone's been sleeping in my bed and she's still there!" exclaimed Baby bear. Just then, Goldilocks woke up and saw the three bears. At this juncture. Ask few critical thinking questions to your child: Listening Activity What must the bears have done seeing Goldilocks? Do you think Goldilocks would have prepared fresh porridge for the bears? Reading / Circle Time Activity: Name Game: Pick out few words from the story.give your ward different alphabets. Make your child to arrange these alphabets and frame words. Show them the story words many a times before they do this activity. Make all the members in the family to participate. Morning Message: Make your child eat Porridge everyday. Make them spell Porridge verbally. Show them few nursery rhymes on Porridge, from the YouTube. An activity to understand Emotions: Make your child to imagine that He/She is Goldilocks and think of different situations in the story. Do make him/her stand before the mirror and show faces of various emotions (Happiness/ Sad/Anger /Fear). Show them different pictures from Magazines/ Books /TV etc and make them say Positive and Negative emotional words. Speak to them on how both are required to have a balanced personality.
English: Language development Activities: Make your ward to retell the story with expression and action. (Use prompt cards) Make a picture dictionary using ip, ot, ug and ed words as given below: Picture Puzzle: Goldilocks and the Three Bears Put the pictures in the order Make your child to speak on each picture while arranging them in an order.
Maths: (Developing Numerical Skills) The story can enable students to learn what measurement is all about. We can find Goldilocks using words such as Large, Medium and Small. Give your ward few objects of various sizes and make them arrange it in a serial order. Suggest them to count the objects to learn the numbers. Show them objects that have Similarities and Differences.Make them talk about the similarities and differences. Connect their talk with the story and ask various questions from the story on Similarities and Differences. Show them small and large numbers. Make your child to identify (Big /Medium /Small) and make your ward to write below each picture: B/M/S and B- RED, M-Green, S-Blue). B M S
EVS: Show the picture card of The house of Three Bears and ask them to describe everything that is seen inside and outside the house, make them compare with their own house. Discuss about Good Manners by refering to Goldilocks behavior while in the Bears House. Talk to your child on good eating habits. Ask questions as Was the porridge raw or cooked? Is the porridge Junk food or Healthy food. Make your child to identify from the given worksheet the healthy food by ticking and Crossing for the Junk Food. Discuss on Vitamins, Proteins and other Nutrients that are vital for good health. Tick the healthy foods and Cross out the junk foods.
World around Us: Show them a video on Forests, Bears other animals etc. Discuss on the countries that have more bears. If possible take them to the Zoo and show them bears. Talk to them on Teddy bears and Koala Bears etc. Show them few cartoons and stories that speak to them on the positive qualities of bears. Groom your ward to love animals. Tell them how important they are to maintain a balance in the Nature. Help your little one to make masks for Goldilocks characters like Papa Bear, Mama Bear, Baby bear and Goldilocks and make them retell the whole story. Materials Needed 1) Paper plate/ chart paper 2) Popsicle/ ice cream sticks 3) Glue 4) Black marker 5) Scissors 6) Decorative items as per needed 7) String or elastic Directions: You ll need to cut holes for eyes and mouth, and use string or elastic or attach them to a stick to hold.
Identify, color and talk about Goldilocks Conclusion: We will appreciate if the work done by your ward can be pictured and pasted in an album. As a parent you can write few of your experiences in the album. Tell us if your ward enjoyed his/her learning. We love to hear from you. Regards KG-2 TEAM