Early Childhood Commission

Early Childhood Commission

Term One Parent Support Activity Plans

Week Two, Day One

Age: 4 year Olds

Theme: Celebrating Me

Sub theme: I am Special

Circle Time

Name of Activity: I Can Identify My Own Name

Objectives: At the end of the activity, child/ children should be able to:

1. Tell their Christian name.

2. State the Christian name of their parent/s.

3. Arrange hand prints to create a pattern on paper.

4. Compose simple sentences using Christian name.

5. Answer and ask questions using Standard Jamaican English (SJE).

6. Participate in the activity.

Concept/Content: My name is very special. It tells who I am. I can identify

and write my own name. I can call my family and friends by their names.

Skills: Name identification, speaking, listening, manipulating

Resources: Name cards, water coloured paints, sheet of paper with outlined

names, pencils or crayons, sheets of paper, marker, electronic device, Song-

“Who Am I? I am Special” by Andre Adman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t4E0x3TmOQ

Activity Steps:

Introductory Activity:

Parent and child/ children will sing along to the song, “Who Am I? I am

Special” by Andre Adman (see link above). The parent will assist the child/

children to cut a sheet of paper in a rectangular shape. The child / children

will gently dip hand in some paint, then use the painted hand to make a hand

print design around the edges of the paper.

1. The child/ children will respond to following the questions, “What is

your name? What is your mother’s/father’s name”? The child/ children

will be guided in answering the questions in Standard Jamaican English.

For example, “My name is Ted.”’

2. The child/ children will be encouraged to carefully trace the dots on

the decorated sheet of paper to write own name.

3. The child/ children will say and display own name. Parent will assist the

child/ children in making a sentence with their Christian using Standard

Jamaican English.

4. The parent will assist the child/ children to glue the decorated name

card in the shape of an armband and allow the child/ children to wear it

throughout the day. The child/children can be allowed to add other

decorations to the armband, if desired.

5. Commend the child/ children for their creation.

Guided Learning Activity

Name of Activity: I Know My Christian Name


1) Identify own Christian name by selecting name from among other

names.

2) Participate in each activity.

3) Manipulate name-cards by making, shuffling and matching name

cards.

Skills: Manipulating, identifying, creating

Resources: Markers, paper or cardboard, name cards

Activity Steps:

1. Using the child’s/ children’s Christian name, as well as the Christian

names of other family members and friends, parent and child/ children

will make two sets of name cards for each name. For example: Sue

Sue, George, George

2. Child/ children will place the name cards face down on a table or on

the floor and shuffle them.

3. Child/ children will find own matching Christian name cards then try

to find the other names that match.

4. Parent will make up a simple song using Christian names of family

members, friends and the child’s/ children’s name. Whenever the child/

children hears own Christian name give a clap. The child/ children can

also jump, point at self or shout “that’s me”

5. Commend the child/ children for participating in the activities.

Guided Creative Activity:

Name of Activity: Making My Name

Objectives: At the end of the activity, the child should be able to:

1. Design by painting the letters of Christian name on stones.

2. Arrange the stones with the letters of Christian name in the correct

order.

3. Participate in the “making my name activity” and completing the tasks

assigned.

Skills: Manipulating, following instructions

Resources: Paint, paint brush, smooth, flat stones

Activity Steps:

1. Child/children will go outdoors and hunt for smooth flat stones.

2. Child/ children will paint each letter of Christian name on a

corresponding stone.

3. Child/ children will decorate each stone using designs and colours of

choice.

4. Child/ children will arrange the stones to spell their Christian name

Indoor/Outdoor Play

Name of Activity: Jumping On My Name

Objectives: At the end of the activity the child should be able to:

1. Develop balance and coordination by jumping.

2. Demonstrate agility in movements.

3. Participate in the jumping activity.

Skills: Gross motor development- movement, balancing

Resources: Name cards

Activity Steps:

1. Parent will write on each piece of cardboard 10 Christian names and

position them face up on the ground in a circular pattern.

2. The child/children will be instructed that while the music or rhythm

plays, skip around the name in a circular motion.

3. Parent will clap rhythms or play the child’s/children’s favourite song

while the child/children skip around and observe the names.

4.When the music or rhythm stops the child/children will find own name

and jump on it.

5. The parent will shuffle the names and repeat Steps 3 and 4 as desired.

Story Time:

Name of Activity: What Is Your Name?


1. Listen to the story My Name is Gabriela on YouTube.

2. Answer at least three questions from the story.

3. Participate in discussion about the story.

4.Draw a picture of an animal from the story.

Skills: Listening, recalling, observing, speaking, drawing

Resources: Tablet/ desk top computer/ laptop/ smart phone, online story, ‘My

name is Gabriella”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uev8zz6I1Qo

Activity Steps:

1.Parent and child/children will sing’ “Who am I? I am Special” by Andre

Adman.

2.Then, parent and child/children will listen to the story “My name is

Gabriella” (see link above). The parent can pause the story intermittently and

allow child/children to talk about the story and answer questions. Possible

questions:

a. What did Gabriella see from her window?

b. What are some of the activities Gabriella like to do?

c. How did Gabriella feel doing these activities? Why do you

think so?

3. Child/children will draw a picture of favourite animal from the story.

Follow-Up Activities: Parent will continue to add more names to name cards

to increase difficulty in matching pairs.

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Week Two, Day Two

Age: 4 Year Olds


Sub theme: I am special

Circle Time

Name of Activity: Creating My Name with Materials in the Environment


1) Collect small sticks/stones/leaves in a timely manner.

2) Create own name using sticks/stones/leaves.

3) Engage in discussion about own experience in participating in activity.

4) Participate in activity by completing the given task.

Concept/Content: I am special; there is no one else like me. My name is very

special. It tells who I am.

Skills: Creating, writing, discussing

Resources: Small sticks/stones/leaves, name cards

Activity Steps

1. Child/ children will be assisted by parent to collect small

stones/sticks/leaves.

2: Child/ children will use the stones/sticks/leaves, collected in step one, to

make letters of own name on a large sheet of paper or cardboard using the

name card from the previous day as a guide.

3: Child/ children will talk with parent about their name creation experience.


Name of Activity: Number of letters in different names


1) Count the number of letters in own name.

2) Count the number of letters in a family member’s or parent’s name.

3) Compare the number of letters in own name to the number of letters in

the name of a family member or parent.

4) Identify the numeral that matches the number of letters in each name.

5) Participate in completing a worksheet.

Skills: Counting, comparing, writing, critical thinking

Resources: Counters / bottle caps, name cards, worksheet, sheet of paper.

Activity Steps:

1. Child/ children should be provided with the name card used in

previous activity. Let child/ children count how many letters make up

own name by using counters to assist.

2. Parent will write his or her name on a sheet of paper. The

child/children will count how many letters are in parent’s name.

3. Child/ Children will compare how many letters are in own name and

parent’s name; then tell which name has more letters and which name

has less letters.

4. Child/ children will complete a worksheet by circling the numeral

that matches the number of letters in each name.

Outdoor/Indoor

Name of Activity: Name Race


1) Write own name.

2) Manipulate body parts to play a game.

3) Participate in playing the name race game.

Skills: Gross motor development- moving, balancing

Resources: Strips of paper, box, name card

Activity Steps:

1. Parent will engage child/children in the game, ‘Name Race’.

2. Parent will place three strips of paper in a box at the starting line,

while the parent stands at the finishing line.

3. Child/children will start the race by taking out one strip of the

paper from the box and write own name on it then run to the parent

with the name.

4. The child is cheered on for completing the run. The parent will

check to see if name is correctly spelt. If incorrect, the parent will

tag the child’s / children’s name on own back or chest for the name to

be written correctly by the runner.

5. Repeat Steps 3 and 4 until the other strips of paper are used.

6.The child/ children will be praised for effort.

Story Time

Name of Activity: Chrysanthemum

Objectives: At the end of the activity, child/children should be able to:

1) Listen to the story Chrysanthemum on Youtube.

2) Answer at least three questions about the story Chrysanthemum

3) Retell parts of the story Chrysanthemum

4) Participate in a discussion about the story Chrysanthemum.

Skills: Listen attentively, participate willingly, making a choice

Resources: Story entitled Chrysanthemum from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fkR7X4SevE

Activity Steps:

1. Child/ children will be encouraged to watch and listen to the story

‘My name is Chrysanthemum”.

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2. Parent and child/ children will engage in a discussion about the story.

For example:

A. What is the name of the girl in the story?

B. How many letters are in the girl’s name?

C. How did her friends treat her at school?

D. Did you like or dislike the story? Why did you like or dislike the

story?

3. The child/children will share their favourite part of the story. Praise

child/ children for responses given.



Week Two, Day Three

Age: 4 Year Olds


Sub theme: I am special

Circle Time

Name of Activity: I know the Name of Other Children


1. State at least one good quality of a friend.

2. Identify friends by stating their names.

3. Participate in an activity.

4. Share experiences of the activities they enjoy with their friends.

Concept/Content: Other people have names too. Your name can tell who you

are. Friends have different qualities that make them good friends. For

example, some friends are kind and helpful.

Resources: none

Skills: Speaking, listening,

Activity Steps:

1. Let child / children name and talk about their friends.

2. Let child / children tell why each friend is special. Parent should

help child/ children to identify good qualities of friends. For example,

my friend shares with me. (kindness)

3. Child/ children will tell the parent about a special activity they

enjoyed doing with friends.


Name of Activity: I have Many friends (1-5)

Objectives: At the end of the activity, the child should be able to:

1. Use counters for one-to-one correspondence.

2. Identify five friends.

3. Count aloud from 1 to 5.

4. Make sets of 5.

Resources: Counters exercise book, markers, pictures

Skills: Speaking, counting, drawing, making sets

Activity Steps:

1. Child/ children should state the names of five friends.

2. Child/ children should count the number of counters representing

5 friends.

3. The child will be provided with materials to create a number book

of five by making different sets of 5 from pictures from

newspapers/ magazines.

Guided Creative Activity

Name of Activity: Friends Around the World


1. Sort pictures of different people.

2. Design a collage using the faces on pictures.

3. Participate in an activity.

Resources: Magazines/newspapers, large cardboard/paper, glue

Skills: Manipulating, creating, aligning objects

Activity Steps:

1. Child/ children will be allowed to sort through newspapers or

magazines and select colourful pictures of persons.

2. Let child/ children cut or tear chosen pictures from the

newspapers or magazines.

3. Parents will assist child/ children in creating a picture collage

using pictures cut from the magazines/ newspapers.

Indoor/Outdoor Play

Name of Activity: Stagger Lee


1. Jump around in a ring (circle).

2. Jump at different levels (high and low).

3. Participate in a ring game.

4. Listen to and follow instructions

Resources: none

Skills: Jumping, singing, listening

Name of Activity: Jumping for Stagger Lee

Activity Steps:

1. Parent and child/ children will participate in a ring game,

“Stagger Lee”. Parent, child/ children will jump around in a circle

while singing the song- Stagger Lee.

2. Parent and child/ children should take turns jumping high and low

when their names are called in the song.

Story Time:

Name of Activity: Knowing My Name


1. Listen to a story.

2. Respond to questions using Standard Jamaican English.

3. Participate in a discussion about the story of The Fly that Forgot Its

Name.

4. Retell parts of the story of The Fly that Forgot Its Name.

Resources: Tablet/ desk top computer/ laptop/ smart phone, story book-

‘The Fly that Forgot Its Name’ https://youtu.be/QFVOIXR8soQ

Skills: Listening, speaking, retelling parts of a story

Activity Steps:

1. Child/ children will watch and listen to a story ‘The Fly that Forgot

Its Name’

2. Child/ children will answer questions from the story at the end of

the shared reading exercise.

Possible Questions from the story ‘The Fly that Forgot Its Name’

1. What are some of the names mentioned in the story?

Expected responses: fly, ax, bird, lake, fish, little boy, horse, baby

horse

2. Which insect or animal in the story did not remember its name?

Expected response: The Fly

3. Child/ children will be allowed to retell favourite parts of the

story.

Follow-Up Activities: With the assistance of the parent, child/ children

will make sets of 5, using different objects found in the home (clothes

pegs, bottles, toys).



Week Two, Day Four

Age: 4 Years Old



Circle Time

Name of Activity: Long and Short Names

Objectives: At the end the end of the activity, the child will be able to:

1. Compare the length of names based on the number of letters in each

name.

2. Speak in complete sentences using Standard Jamaican English.

3. Listen to and follow instructions.

Concept/Content: Other people have names. Your name can tell something

about you. The letters in names can be counted and compared to see which

names are long and which are short. Names with many letters are long and

those with a few letters are short.

Skills: Observing, comparing, measuring, number knowledge

Resources: Two name cards with long names, two name cards with short

names

Activity Steps:

1.Child/children will be encouraged to observe the name cards with the

two long names and the name cards with the two short names. These

cards will be created by a parent or a family member ahead of the

activity.

2.Child/children will be invited to compare the names on the card and

say which are long names and which are short names. Let child/children

give reasons for responses. For example, child/children may say “Bob is

a short name, because it has three letters.”

3.Let child/ children count the number of letters in own name and state

if name is long or short.


Name of Activity: One to One Matching


1. Measure using non-standard measurement to compare length.

2. Match items using one to one correspondence.

Skills: Manipulating, critical thinking, speaking

Resources: Name cards, bottle caps, strings

Activity Steps:

1. Ask child/ children to choose a name card with a long name and one with

a short name from the available name cards.

2. Let child/ children place a bottle cap on each letter. Ask child/ children

to count and tell the number of bottle caps used on each name.

3. The child/children will then use pieces of string to measure the length

of each name based on the number of bottle caps and compare the

length of strings (which is short, which is long).

Guided Creative Learning


1. Prepare and pour a mixture in a smaller container.

2. Give reasons for choosing a long name or a short name.

Skills: Making decisions, manipulating, critical thinking

Resources: Name cards, bottle caps, ice tray, jug, drink mix, spoon, strings

Activity Steps:

1. The child will be guided by a parent to mix a drink of his or her choice.

2. Let child/ children pour some drink in an ice tray, parent will assist to

fill each section to the number of letters in the name selected by the

child/ children. (For example, Maria, has five letters so 5 sections will

be filled in the tray)

3. The tray will be placed in the freezer and allowed to freeze. Allow the

child to say why he or chose the name.

4. The child/ children will be invited to eat ice cubes when frozen. (This

should help to motivate child/ children to engage in the activity again,

looking or longer names with the desire to have more ice cubes.

Outdoor/Indoor

Name of Activity: Name Hopscotch


1. Balance while hopping on one leg from one square to another.

2. Follow instructions.

3. Recognize the letters in own first name.

4. Participate in the hopscotch game.

Skills: Gross motor development- balancing, manipulating, making choices

Resources: Chalk to draw the hopscotch, letter tiles of child’s name

Activity Steps:

1. The parent will place the letters of the child’s/children’s name in the

hopscotch squares. Let child/ children hop in the boxes and say the

names of the letters.

2. Ask child/ children to jump in the squares while spelling the letters of

own first name.

3. Praised child/ children for efforts during the activities.

Story Time

Name of Activity: “Rumpelstiltskin” on http://youtu.be/1Qh5hclQXKw


1. Watch a video of the story “Rumpelstiltskin” attentively.

2. Answer at least three questions from the story.

3. Provide another ending for the story.

Activity Steps:

1. Parent and child/ children will sing the “Story time is full of fun”.

2. The child will be encouraged to watch the video of the story

“Rumpelstiltskin”.

Parent will engage child/ children in discussion about the story. The parent

will ask simple questions related to the story, for example:

1. Do you think the name “Rumpelstiltskin” is long or short?

2. Why do you think the Miller’s daughter was crying?

3. Who helped the Miller’s daughter?

4. Ask child/ children to draw and colour a picture showing an alternate

ending to the story.

Follow-Up Activities: The parent will create name tags on various items

around the home so that , child/ children be given other opportunities to look

at and compare the length of words.

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Week Two, Day Five

Age: 4 Years Olds



Circle Time

Objectives: At the end the end of the activity, child/children will be able to:

1. Differentiate between the words more and less.

2. Use quantity to compare items.

3. Participate in games and other activities.

Concept/Content: My name is very special. It tells who I am. Other people

have names too.

Skills: Comparing, speaking, listening

Resources: Name cards, worksheet, word cards (with words more and less)

Activity steps:

1. Parent will introduce the words “more” and “less” on word cards.

2. Let child/ children count the letters of own Christian and Surname

name.

3. Ask child/ children to place one counter on each letter in their name.

Guide child/ children in comparing which of their name, Christian or

Surname has more counters.

4. Let child /children choose two name cards from a set. Let them will

count letters and compare length using the terms more or less.

5. Ask child/ children to use the words more and less to complete a

worksheet created by the parent. (1.) A short name has

____________ letters. 2. A long name has ___________ letters.

6. Praise child/ children for participating in the activities.

Guided Learning


1. Count the number of letters in each name.

2. Trace the number of letters for each name.

3. Follow instructions to make a crown.

Activity Steps:

1. Give child/ children worksheet that has four long names and four short

names.

2. Let child/ children count how many letters are in each name.

3. Ask child/ children to trace the numeral that represents the count

beside each name.

4. The child/ children will make a crown and write own name on the crown

using paint or marker.

5. Praise child/ children for their creation.

Guided Creative Activity

Name of Activity: Name Crown


1) Use reusable materials to make a crown.

2) Cut along a straight line using scissors.

3) Trace first name with paint.

Skills: Tracing, manipulate objects

Resources: Paint/markers, cartridge paper, cardboard, glue, scissor (child

friendly)

Activity Steps

1. Guide child/ children in cutting along a line to make a strip of cartridge

paper or cardboard.

2. Parent should use strip of paper to measure child/ children’s head to

form the crown. Glue the strip to form circle with the measurement of

the child/ children’s head.

3. Let the child. Children use coloured paint of choice to trace own name

on the crown.

4. Praise child/ children for decorating the crown.

Indoor/Outdoor

Name of Activity: Simon Says Name Jump

Objectives: At the end of activity, child/ children should be able to:

1) Jump short distances.

2) Develop balance

3) Build coordination skills.

4) Follow instructions.

Skills: Balancing, hopping/jumping, listening

Resources: Name cards

Activity Steps

1. The name cards will be placed on the ground at various locations. The

child/children will be encouraged to tell which names are long and which

are short.

2. Play the game “Simon Says”. Let child/ children jump on long names or

on short names. ( For example, Simon says jump on a short name)

Follow-Up Activities:

1. Complete the worksheets provided.

2. Provide opportunities for the child/children to count and compare items

around the home e.g. dinning utensils, toys etc.

3. Provide opportunities for the child/children to practice tracing own

name.


Activities- Day Three:

Count the number of letters in each name and

match it to the corresponding numeral on the right.

Pam 4

Rory 5

Abigale 3

Frank 7

Colour the capital letter ‘L’

Colour the common letter ‘l’


Activities- Day Four:

Name Cards

Yarn

Bottle Caps

Jug

Drink Mix

Worksheet

More

Less

A short name has ____________ letters.

A long name has ___________ letters.

Circle the number below that matches the

number of letters in each name.

William

4 7 9

Mario

5 3 6

Samantha

6 8 10

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