Nepali for L KG and U KG

Once the children are familiar with Nepali alphabets we have many exercises for further practice. This is usually for the children of L KG and U KG. I chose contrasting colors for word list cards and laminated them. The word list cards are 8 by 6 inches.

word  list cards

Different word list cards

word cards in pocket chart

 loose word cards and picture sheet-before matching

 loose word cards and picture sheet-after matching

Children enjoy Nepali lotto game. The picture cards are 8 by 6 inches and word cards are 2 by 1.5 inches. The picture cards and word cards are pasted on thick cardboard and covered with wide cello tape as I often do. The game is played under teacher’s supervision as children need to read correctly and place the word card on the correct picture. Each picture card  has  few different pictures. They are now familiar with the rules.  I have cut pictures mostly from Nepali book published by Pustak Prakashan Griha Pvt Ltd.  

loose word cards

loose word cards and picture cards

word cards are piled upside down

Placing correct word card on  the corresponding picture

Lotto game cards in clear bags

Children  played these lotto games during summer and now they are surprisingly fluent in reading. Teachers make every effort  in guiding these small group of children who are very moody and pampered. They love to show off their talent and call me every now and then to hear them read. My comments and gestures mean a lot to them.

Learning shapes-1

Children spent the  whole week learning different shapes. U KG  are familiar making shapes from Tangram puzzle pieces. They colored  A 4 sized newspaper in different colors and  pin poked the Tangram  puzzle shapes I drew for them on the construction paper.It took longer then the usual time.

Pin poking Tangram pieces

Pasting Tangram puzzle pieces 

 L KG learnt to make figures from the plastic shapes. I pasted the figure chart on cardboard and covered with wide cello tape.

Only few Nursery children remembered  the name of the shapes from the demonstration tray so  we dealt with just one shape-Circle. I drew circles for pin poking. They poked only one circle. Children used normal sized pin but I am looking for a little bigger size. For the mat I used pieces of flooring material. 

Pin poking

The next day  I read  story of Caterpillar from ECEC and children  choose circles to  make  caterpillars. Only one child choose green circles. They wanted to make butterflies too. But I had something else ready for them- Lady bugs. Butterflies will be for some other day.

Caterpillars on the board

Children love the  book called Tik Tike Kira- a Lady Bug book from Room to Read . I feel  Nursery enjoyed making Lady bugs because they kept saying Tik Tike Kira ..Tik Tike Kira .. Tikai Tika.

left-searching for big red circle and right-making Lady Bug

Lady bugs

I think the best part for Nursery was eating only round shaped biscuits. Perhaps they wanted to eat the other biscuits too but we kept those for snack time. The treat was only for the Nursery.

Enjoying biscuits

Pink series-1

I enjoyed collecting objects for pink boxes. Most of them are  my children's toys. I keep eight to ten objects and change when necessary. The picture and word cards are laminated

Objects only

Picture cards

Objects and word cards

Picture cards and word cards

I love using corrugated card board  for making teaching materials. I used wide cello tape to cover.

 I drew pictures from Madhuban Educational Books-My Orange Book of Activities-3

Below are the pictures from the booklet. 

Sensorial Materials-1

I learnt to make picture collage form my daughter Panchu and  tried  to make few with the sensorial materials we have in the school. 

Lacing activities-1

We  have few materials for lacing but  using corrugated card board was fun for kindergarten. I used  my daughter's clay art tool  for making holes in the card board and old cardigan yarn for lacing. Once they knew the pattern  the result was quick. They also learnt to thread the needle.

                                                                     

                                                        

Teaching English Alphabets-to beginners

 I teach  phonics first before the names of the alphabets. I chose phonic song A is for Apple by A.J.Jenkins and made a chart with the picture same as in the song. The chart is pasted on the wall and children easily touch, show and sing. We also sing Ants on the Apple.

picture chart  on the wall         

Now, children  sing the phonic song  without the help of  the audio and visual aid. I made a complete set of sand paper letters for tracing. Children write in sand and flour trays for practice.

sand paper lowercase letters

sand paper uppercase letters

puzzle board-1

puzzle board-2

The puzzles below have numbers on one side and alphabets on the other. I pasted the puzzle picture on the basket just in case they need solution.

puzzles can be used for both numbers and alphabets

puzzle picture pasted on the basket  

Children enjoy placing  the same kind of  large movable alphabets as written on the card. The cards are made of corrugated cardboard. I made all the c v c (consonant vowel consonant) series using the large movable alphabets. This is only for letter recognition and not for spellings.

large movable alphabet

The upper and lower case letters are  pasted  little higher than the child's height as there was no space below. I use the words small and big for lower and uppercase letters.

Singing phonic song and tracing sandpaper letters is fun for children except writing. In Nepal Nursery children must learn to read and write both the lower and uppercase letters before they are upgraded to Lower Kindergarten. It is a pressure for the children as well as the teachers. I feel every activity in the classroom must be an  enjoyable event for children.

Happily lacing alphabets