Children reflect on their relationships with their mothers and compare them with the bonds between animal or bird mothers and their young. Portraiture, matching, role play, colour sorting, and letter Cc practice make the topic personal and concrete.
What children learn
- Talk about one's mother and the relationship between mothers and children.
- Match animal and bird mothers with their young and discuss how babies are born and cared for.
- Recognise, trace, and write the letter Cc and its sound.
- Identify and sort red and yellow objects and count from 1 to 10.
Key activities
- Drawing a self-portrait with one's mother
- Matching picture cards of animals and birds with their babies
- Making an animal picture with newspaper and cotton
- Role-playing a mother and ways children can help at home
- Creating a red heart with salt painting
You’ll need
family photographs, animal-and-baby picture cards, drawing paper and crayons, newspaper and cotton, household role-play props, red and yellow objects, salt and red paint, letter Cc cards, sand or rice trays
Structure: 5 days; each day: Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, Warm-up, EVS, Literacy, Numeracy