Category: Literacy

In the kitchen, Literacy

Number chef

Christabel

Introduce your little chefs to their set up area. By making it look special and inviting, there is a high chance that your child will be thrilled to jump into play! Explain that for this game, they are the chef and they will need to take orders and make up the food. The different menu items contain different amounts of ingredients. “3 Stew” is made using just 3 of each ingredient (loose parts). “4 Salad” is made using 4 of each ingredient, and so on.To help remember the amount of each ingredient needed, as well as to provide a corresponding visual reminder of both the written symbol and the amount. Encourage children to count aloud as they include each ingredient. As the children play, continue to ask them questions to get them referring to the written number and amount.

Things to discuss: Which are we making? What does the number look like? How many of each ingredient do we need? How many of each ingredient they are putting in? What does that symbol mean

In the kitchen, Literacy

Alphabet Soup

Christabel

Building an Alphabet Soup sensory bin is so easy!

Materials:

  • Storage tub
  • Kitchen utensils
  • Food colouring
  • Letters

Set up:

Fill your tub with just enough water. Put the letters in the coloured water and add some tools for soup play. Encourage the children to scoop and hunt for the letter ‘k’.

Literacy

Writing trays

Christabel

Writing trays are a fantastic way to help children work on pre-writing skills. Writing trays are a creative way to help children learn to write numbers, letters, shapes, and pre-writing strokes.  There are a lot of different ways that writing trays can be set up and used. Usually, a shallow container is used and it is filled with any material that can be moved around with a finger such as sugar, salt, semolina, flour, sand, rice etc.

In the kitchen, Literacy

L-Ittra k

Christabel

Mat-tfal aqra l-kliem li jibda bl-ittra k. Saqsi lit-tfal jafux b’xi kliem oħra. Xi kliem relatatt mal-proġett tagħna huma: kċina, kiwi, karrotti, kappar, kaboċċi, kok u kitla.

Together with your children read the words that start with the letter k. Ask the children if they know any other words that start with the letter k. Some words related to our project are: kitchen (kċina), kiwi, carrots (karrotti), capers (kappar), cabbage (kaboċċi), chef (kok) and kettle (kitla).

http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKnt-Oi1r8U