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Nihao School March Activity Highlight
- i-Immersion
- Apr 5, 2023
- 4 min read
Clowning Around 2023
Children get silly together as they pretend to be clowns and other silly characters/people.
Key Learning Outcomes:
Creative Arts: moves to act on environment with intent and control; vocalizes to get attention. Observes and imitates, sounds, gestures, and behaviors of others.
Self-Emotional Development: shows interest in mirror image; consistently responds to name; uses pronouns "me" and "mine"
Play & Learn at Home:
Song: Circus Song / Freeze Dance / Circus Music
Video: Circus Song / Put On Your Shoes Clown
Creating Clovers
Children create four-leaf clovers in celebration of St. Patrick's Day.
Key Learning Outcomes:
Creative Arts: shows curiosity, exploring a wide variety of art media through sensory experiences; uses a variety of materials in exploring and creating age-appropriate artwork
Social Studies: participates in holiday, cultural, and birthday celebrations for friends, family, or community
Math: listens and responds to an adult counting; shows interest in and awareness of numbers and counting during daily routines and activities; understands differences in quantity: more, all gone, less; grows in rote counting; begins to understand concept of "one" and "two"; identifies more/less in sets.
Approaches to Learning: becomes increasingly aware of colors, shapes, patterns, or pictures
Play & Learn at Home:
Silly Rhymes & An Echo Song: Infant
Children enjoy listening to rhymes and songs from select themes.
Key Learning Outcomes:
Creative Arts: responds to and shows interest in musical sounds by turning head or moving body; explores vocal sounds through imitation; responds to and explores musical rhythms through movement
Self-Emotional Development: shows pleasure at things they have done
Play & Learn at Home:
Book: The Book of Silly Rhymes
Song: Flee Fly Flo / Down By the Bay
Video: Flee Fly Flo / Down By The Bay
Soaring Kite
Children complete the kite project by removing the tissue paper pieces and adding a kite tail.
Key Learning Outcomes:
Creative Arts: responds to or shows interest in visual stimuli (bright colors, toys, mobiles, stuffed animals, etc.); hows interest in own works of art and the works of others with prompting
Science: explores objects and world through all five senses (touches and brings objects to mouth, focuses attention on people or objects); uses senses to explore and manipulate objects to observe how things work; observes the effects of their actions on others.
Play & Learn at Home:
Song: This is the Way (change lyrics to "this is the way we fly a kite") / Five Little Kites
Print Out: Kite Patterns
Silly Sally
Children imitate silly movements from a book.
Key Learning Outcomes:
Language/Literacy: listens and responds with interest to sounds and verbal communication of others; watches and responds to body language, gestures, and other forms of nonverbal communication
Expressive Language: uses consistent sounds, gestures, signs, or words for a variety of purposes to express needs and wants which are understood by familiar adults; learns and uses new words each day to label people and objects, sing songs, make requests
Physical Development and Health: engages with caregivers in play that helps develop arm, leg, and core strength (tummy time, reaching, grasping, pushing)
Self-Emotional Development: shows pleasure at things they have done; shows others things they have done; shows confidence in increasing abilities through actions and language; attempts to accomplish activities independently; begins to help clean up work/play space with guidance
Play & Learn at Home:
Book: Silly Sally
Song: Hot Potato / Freeze Dance
Video: Silly Sally
Hedgehogs
Children listen to a cute story about hedgehogs, talk about friendship, and the funny ways the hedgehogs try to hug.
Key Learning Outcomes:
Language/Literacy: listens and responds with interest to sounds and verbal communication of others; begins to understand gestures, words, questions, or routines; progresses in understanding and responding to verbal and nonverbal cues
Science: uses senses to explore; shares what is seen, heard, and touched; makes simple predictions based on previous experiences; observes the effects of their actions on others.
Math: explores moving body in space and observes other people and objects as they move; begins to understand and respond to positional words in directions
Self-Emotional Development: responds to and shows awareness of other children; shows interest in and responds to other children; side-by-side play progressing to interactive play using same materials; begins to show preference for some children over others; uses imitation or pretend play to learn new roles and relationships
Play & Learn at Home:
Video: Hedgehugs
I Like The Rain
Children listen to a book that explores spring and weather.
Key Learning Outcomes:
Language/Literacy: listens and responds with interest to sounds and verbal communication of others; watches and responds to body language, gestures, and other forms of nonverbal communication
Math: listens and responds to an adult counting
Social-Emotional Development: shows emotional connection and attachment to familiar adults
Approaches To Learning: uses senses to explore immediate environment
Play & Learn at Home:
Book: Rain Rain Go Away
Song: Rain Rain Go Away
Video: Rain Drops
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