Wednesday 25th March

Ms Becky is making sure she stays healthy!  I wonder what exercise you will do today?

Wake up and shake up with Ms Karen and Marlon - can you make up your own dance for this song?

Singing nursery rhymes and songs to children can help develop their language and communication skills from an early age. Introducing children to a variety of songs can help them understand and learn about different sounds. This is an important part of developing those early literacy skills. Listening to different sounds in the environment as well as in nursery rhymes provides children with the foundations in helping them to read and write.

These are some ideas for learning at home today. Please do share any home learning with your child's class teacher via ILD. Please feel free to leave a comment by clicking the icon 'Add Comment' at the bottom of the blog to let us know how your child is getting on (Mr Dan thinks he has fixed it so comments will appear now!)

Imaginative play!

Pretend or imaginative play allows children to learn many different and important skills. By encouraging your children to enter a world of 'make believe', you are supporting: imagination and creativity; social and emotional development; language and communication skills; physical development; critical thinking and problem solving skills. 

Share the story of 'Whatever Next!' then watch Ms Cora's video underneath! Use your imagination and objects from your house - can you have a picnic on the moon? Where else might be a fun place to go? Can you build your play space and send a picture to your teacher on ILD?

นิทานเรื่อง Whatever Next เปิดดูจากลิ๊งด้านล่างเลยค่ะ

เด็กๆ มีอุปกรณ์ใช้ในการแสดงที่บ้านไหม? เด็กๆ อาจจะไปปิกนิกที่ดวงจันทร์ได้ หรือ เด็กๆ สามารถใช้จินตนาการของตัวเอง เลือกสถานที่ๆพิเศษ เพื่อจะไปปิกนิกได้

Snack time! This week, we'd like to share pictures of children eating healthy fruit snacks at home. If you have any, please email them to Mr Dan (daha@patana.ac.th) and he will add them to the blog over the next few days.

Look who is in our healthy snack gallery this week!

Maths game!

There are a number of reasons why games are great for developing children's mathematical thinking: they offer meaningful situations for the application of mathematical skills; they provide intrinsic motivation for learning; they provide opportunities for building self-concept and developing positive attitudes towards mathematics; greater learning can occur through games due to the increased interaction between players; they create opportunities to test intuitive ideas and problem solving strategies; once they know the rules, children can play independently of  an adult (which is a HUGE positive at any time, more so given the current situation!).

For today's learning, you will need a set of dominoes, like these:

If you do not have a set at home, you can print some paper ones from here, or you could make your own from paper or card:

2+ player game

Turn all your dominoes face down. Each turn over a domino. Count your dots - the one with the highest score keeps the dominoes. Keep playing until all of the dominoes have been shared out - the winner is the person with the most dominoes.

Can you challenge yourself to turn over 2 dominoes each and add up the total? Can you create a score chart and keep a record of your scores as you go?

ผู้เล่น เล่นได้มากกว่า 2คน

คว่ำโดมิโนลงกับพื้น ให้แต่ละคนเลือกโดมิโน และ พลิกโดมิโนที่ตัวเองเลือกเพื่อนับจุด ใครได้จุดเยอะกว่ากัน คนๆนั้นจะเป็นคนที่เก็บโดมิโนเอาไว้. เล่นจนกว่าโดมิโนจะหมดจากส่วนกลาง ผู้ชนะ คือคนที่มีโดมิโนกับตัวเองมากที่สุด

เด็กๆสามารถท้าทายความสามารถตัวเอง โดยการเลือก โดมิโน 2ชิ้นใน1 ครั้ง แล้วนับมันรวมกันได้ไหม? เด็กๆสามารถทำตารางคะแนน และคอยจดคะแนนลงในตารางระหว่างเล่นด้วยได้ไหม? ถ้าหากเด็กๆไม่มีโดมิโน เด็กๆจะสามารถสร้างโดมิโน แบบง่ายๆลงในกระดาษ หรือกระดาษแข็งได้หรือเปล่า?

Lunch time - this is why we have to wash our hands! 

Little Inventors Challenge!

The 'Little Inventors Challenge' gives children the opportunity to develop and showcase their creativity and problem-solving skills, build their confidence, curiosity and resilience. 

Dominic Wilcox is a British artist, designer and inventor. He has challenged children all over the world to solve everyday problems with their own invention. His video below explains more:

Can you think of an invention that would solve a problem? What about something fun that would make people happy? Could you design and label your invention? If you wanted to, you could make this a bigger project and build it from recycled materials you find at home! 

Mr  Dan would love to add any pictures of models or designs of new inventions to this blog - please email them to him (daha@patana.ac.th) if you want to share!

There are lots of ideas on Dominic's website - these are some real ideas from 3-5 year olds from around the world:

If you wanted to add your idea to Dominic's website, just ask your Mummy and Daddy to follow the instructions at this link!

Story Time!