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July 2016 Volume I Issue 2 `50
3-6 age group
Who is ? Happy
Get Free!
FOUR Skill Sheets & a Pencil.
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Play G N I Z A M A S ANIMAL
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Hi! I am
Advisory Panel
BUNNY.
Get ready to have some fun. Buggy and I are coming to meet you.
Hi! I am
BUGGY.
Ms. Swati Popat Vats President Early Childhood Association, Mumbai
Dr. Reeta Sonawat Professor and Head Human Development, SNDT Women's University, Mumbai
Ms. Prema Daniel Director, Centre for Training and Resources in Early Childhood Education, Chennai
SCHOOL EVENTS C O L O U R S D A Y Colours day celebration is a popular and regular feature in the Kindergarten schools to make children aware, identify and differentiate various wonders of colours. Children and teachers dress up colourfully, colour songs, colour ryhmes, jingles are sung.
INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY
Ms. Aditi Jain Pragyavataran Educational Society Noida
Ms. Sonali Andrews Director, IPTTA, Hyderabad
Ms. Anne Sivanathan Educationist, Malaysia
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June 21 is observed as International Yoga Day all over the world to spread awareness and join pledge towards building healthy nations and healthy world. This June second International Yoga Day was observed with great zeal and fervour with active participation of kindergarten to high school dressed in sparkling white.
WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
All the schools observed World Environment Day on June 5 to create awareness towards creating healthy environment. Emphasis was given on children's health requirements. More attention was paid to the vulnerabilities and to take measures to reduce exposure to environment hazards, create healthy and safe environment in the schools.
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The Blue Jackal http:// brainfeedjunior.com/ video-july-1
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Neat and Tidy http:// brainfeedjunior.com/ video-july-2
Team Work http:// brainfeedjunior.com/ video-july-3
Let Us Count http:// brainfeedjunior.com/ video-july-4
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THE FLYING ELEPHANT 14 THE BUTTERFLY
PAPER PLATE SNAIL
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THE ALPHABET ART
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THUMB PRINT ART
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PARENTING SKILLS
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MENTOR SPEAKS
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LEARN
AMAZING ANIMALS GRRR! IT‛S A TIGER!
THROUGH FUN LITTLE READERS PLAY & LEARN PLAY ZONE WORD WALL FUN ACTIVITIES
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RHYME FIVE LITTLE KITTENS JUMPING ON A BED
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SAFETY YUMMY TUMMY HEALTH CHILDREN‛S ART AMUSEMENT
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Fun activities like ‘Spot the Differences‛, ‘Shadow Matching‛ and ‘Find Out‛ will help the children to develop observation and logical thinking. Tracing and colouring activities will build physical and mental skills in children. The feature ‘Let‛s play outdoors!‛ focuses on importance of children playing outdoors. ‘Amazing Animals‛ feature gives information about Tigers on the occasion of International Tiger Day. ‘Play and learn‛ highlights activities that help in child development The Healthy Habits poster is a pull-out poster that can be pasted on a wall to read. Academic skill sheets would help children develop problemsolving skills and analytical skills. Enjoy reading and learning!
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COVER STORY
Let’s Play
Outdoors!
Play outdoors! What‛s wrong playing indoors?
Well! If you want to stay healthy, then you must play outside too.
The bright sun shine gives you lots of vitamin D needed for your body growth.
Spending too much time indoors is not good for you.
Isn‛t it fu fun being loud and messy while playing? The best p place for this fun is outdoors.
Outside you learn through your five senses. ensess.
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RHYME
Five
Little kittens
Jumping on the Bed
FIVE little kittens jumping on the bed One fell off and bumped her head; Mama called the doctor And the doctor said: No more kittens jumping on the bed.
FOUR little kittens jumping on the bed One fell off and bumped her head; Mama called the doctor And the doctor said: No more kittens jumping on the bed.
THREE little kittens jumping on the bed One fell off and bumped her head; Mama called the doctor And the doctor said: No more kittens jumping on the bed.
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TWO little kittens jumping on the bed One fell off and bumped her head; Mama called the doctor And the doctor said: No more kittens jumping on the bed. ONE little kitten jumping on the bed One fell off and bumped her head; Mama called the doctor And the doctor said: Put those kittens right to bed!
Activity
Doctor is a community helper. Find out the other community helpers.
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STORY
Who is Happy? O
ne day, a Crow saw a Swan and thought, “Wow! The Swan is so white and beautiful. I am so black and ugly. I think Swan is the happiest bird in the world.”
The Crow went to the Swan and asked, “Are you the happiest bird in the world, aren‛t you?” “Oh! No, I thought I was the happiest bird until I saw a Parrot. It is so colourful,” replied the Swan.
The Crow went to the Parrot and asked, “Are you the happiest bird in the world?” The Parrot said, “It‛s not true. I thought the same until I saw a beautiful Peacock. It has a colourful neck and long feathers. I am sure Peacock is the happiest bird in the world.” 08 BFM JR JULY_Kala.indd 8
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“I will go and meet the Peacock,” thought the Crow. The next day, the Crow went in search of Peacock. Finally, the Crow found the Peacock in a zoo. Many people were gathered around him and were admiring its beauty. The Crow waited until evening. After the people left, the Crow went to the Peacock and asked, “Are you the happiest bird in the world?” The Peacock said, “No my friend. I thought I was the most beautiful and the happiest bird in the world. I have
been observing all the animals in the zoo for some time. The Crow is the only bird that is not kept in a cage. So you are the happiest bird in the world." “I wish I were a Crow,” said the Peacock sadly. The Crow thought, “Oh! I was so wrong. I should not compare myself with others. Everybody is unique and special in some way. I am the happiest bird in the world.” The Crow flew away happily.
I am so lucky. I am the happiest bird in the world. June July 2016
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AMAZING ANIMALS
Let‛s know some interesting things about tigers before you run.
GRRR! IT’S A
TIGER!
Run! …Oh! Wait!
Tigers are the largest wild cats living in the world.They eat other animals and hunt for food alone at night! Tigers are good swimmers and cool themselves off in ponds and rivers. Every year ‘International Tiger Day‛ is celebrated on July 29 to raise awareness to protect tigers. Tiger is our country‛s national animal too.
Jim Corbett National Park is the first and oldest tiger reserve in India. It was started in the year 1936 in Uttarakhand state to protect and save tigers. It is also famous for its tiger safari.
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SAFETY Play Safe Buy toys that suit to your age. Don‛t buy too big or too small toys.
Children! Do you love playing with toys, don‛t you? But you should always remember to put safety into play.
Keep Safe
Regularly check your toys. Throw away the damaged and broken toys.
Store Safe Don‛t scatter or throw the toys everywhere. Keep all the toys safely inside a box.
Note to parents Guide the children to learn organising skills.
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SKILLS
MOTOR DEVELOPMENT
SKILLS FOR PRE-SCHOOL / KINDERGARTEN
Help your child master finemotor skills and allow him / her greater independence. Hand-eye coordination develops fine motor skills, learning and creative expression and lays foundation for academic learning in later years. Here are some fun activities to develop motor skills in play-way methods.
Kiddy Bank and Money Box
Egg Carton and the Beans Number concept can be re-inforced, writing a number inside each hole and the child has to add correct number of beans into it. Have your child hold a few beans in his or her hand and place them into the carton one by one by moving a single bean up to the finger tips each time. Note:Be aware of the choking hazard with the little ones.
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Play Dough (Clay)
Give freedom to the children to squash, squeeze, roll, pound the clay and make anything they like. This will get their hand muscles moving.
Tripod Finger Activities The thumb, index finger and middle fingers are used to control pencil when writing. Show your child how to isolate the tripod fingers with a small slip of paper under the ring and little fingers. This develops stability to the joints and muscles of the hands while the tripod fingers are moving, and reduces fatigue during writing.
Tripod Coloring
Finger Ball Walk Children can do this activity using tripod fingers until they get the hang of walking the ball up and down their legs, look that the child makes grabbing movement instead of walking movement with their fingers. Once they get the hang of it they will be able to isolate the tripod fingers. You can change the size and type of ball.
For this activity use a crayon, but use in an undemanding way, use the tripod fingers to hold crayon down flat and rub color all over the large area, eg. in a circle drawn on a paper.
Mini Paper Crumpling
Tearing Paper
Cut small pieces of crepe or tissue paper, give your child one piece at a time to squish a bit using the tripod fingers of both hands, then ask the child to use just the tripod fingers and roll the crumple paper into a small ball.
Tearing paper can be fun to the child and at the same time develops motor skills. Make them tear the strips horizontally or vertically, then ask them to tear the strips into smaller squares by using tripod fingers to grasp the paper. Then these square papers can be used to make collage, which is a great pre-school hand exercise.
Note: Teachers & Parents can help the child develop motor through these activities
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STORY 1
The Flying
Elephant
A sugarcane farmer once lived in a small village. He worked very hard in his fields and hoped to have a big harvest.
One morning, he saw that a big chunk of his crop was missing. The next day, another huge chunk of his crop was gone. “I‛ll stay awake tonight and see who‛s eating my sugarcane,” the farmer thought to himself.
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That night, he waited by the window, watching his fields. As the moon rose, he saw a tiny speck grow larger in the sky. It was an elephant flying right into his field!
4 The farmer watched in amazement as it flew down and started eating his sugarcane.
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He tiptoed outside and waited for the elephant to finish eating.
When the elephant began flying away, the farmer grabbed its tail in order to catch the elephant. Soon he was flying above his fields into Indra‛s kingdom of Paradise.
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Paradise was filled with beautiful birds and flowers. The ground was covered with silver grass and precious stones.
The farmer soon found the royal palace and met Indra. “Your elephant has been flying down and eating all my sugarcane. My harvest is ruined,” said the farmer.
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“I am very sorry. Please take whatever you want from my kingdom. I‛ll make sure he doesn‛t go down again and damage your crops,” said Indra and blessed the man with a safe journey back home.
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YUMMY TUMMY! Carrots are yummy to tummy! Aren‛t they? You must eat carrots everyday to stay fit and healthy. Carrots are good for your little eyes too. Carrots can be eaten raw, cooked or made into a juice. Whichever way you eat, carrots are tasty and healthy. What are you waiting for? Grab a carrot. Quick!
Hello! My name is Lady Carrot.
Carrot Fun! Hey! Lady Carrot has come to meet you. Make some orange and green paper balls, decorate her as shown. Don't forget to place shown the eyes and mouth (pink paper balls).
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LITTLE READERS
The
Naughty
Elephant Long time ago, there lived an
in a village. Every day, the
elephant took a bath in a nearby pond in a forest and returned to the village. On the way, the gave him some
stopped at a
Elephant
to eat. One day, after finishing its
bath, the elephant visited the
shop. That day, the tailor
was angry and he didn‛t give the
any
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. The
sadly. The next day, after bath, the water and came to the
shop. The
. Instead he
Tailor
went away
filled its trunk with
Bananas
shop. He threw the muddy water on
the new clothes in the shop. All the clothes were spoiled and the cried for the loss.
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Note to parents Read the story along with the child. Guide the child to learn the words with the help of pictures.
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HEALTHY
3-6 age group
Brush your teeth in the morning and at night.
Wake up early in the morning.
Have bath daily to keep yourself clean.
Wash your hands before and after food.
Eat nutritious food.
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Exercise regularly.
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Y HABITS
3-6 age group
Plant sapling to protect environment.
Throw rubbish in the bin.
Cover your mouth and nose when you sneeze/cough. Help elders.
Do your home work before going to play.
Sleep early. July 2016 Jul
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PLAY & LEARN
Walking on a line You have again drawn lines with a chalk, haven‛t you? Let‛s make it more interesting. Just walk across the lines your have drawn. Now try to hop and then skip across the lines. Later you can try jumping and running too. Do one activity at a time. Walking, running, hopping, jumping skipping and leaping are all locomotor skills and will help you develop balance and focus in addition to gross motor skills.
Note to Parents
The child can hop with just one foot or switch off between feet. Be sure the child jumps with both feet leaving the ground at the same time and both feet touching back to the ground at the same time.
Sand Play Playing in sand is fun and soothing, isn‛t it? Building towers, digging a pit, pouring water, all these activities make blle sand play an enjoyable experience. Sand play y helps develop sense e of touch in children. It also promotes creativity, physical development and eyehand coordination in children.
Note to Parents
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HEALTH
OH!
It’s raining!
Pitter -Patter! Pitter –patter!
The monsoon is here and its cool everywhere. So it‛s time to take care of yourself. Otherwise you may fall sick and may miss your school too!
Monsoon Care
• Take a hot water bath. This keeps you fresh. • Wear clean and dry clothes. • Use a raincoat and waterproof shoes when you have to go outside in rain. Carry an umbrella too! • Always keep your feet clean and dry.
Tear different colour papers into small pieces and paste on my umbrella. June July 2016
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CHILDREN’S ART
Chintana UKG
Sharan UKG
Vikram UKG
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PLAY ZONE
A PERFECT PLAY
“Mom! See what I have made. This is an elephant. It‛s so colourful.” Do these words sound familiar, don‛t they? Every child loves to play with play dough. The child finds it interesting and fun. It helps shape his imagination. This play certainly gives a good work to the small hands. The uniqueness of playing with play dough is that there nothing really right or wrong: it is just about exploration, discovery, sensory, creativity and of course play.
What are the benefits? • A child learns visualization and interpretation skills. • It develops self –expression in a child. • It enhances hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills. • It helps develop concentration skills. • It helps child to know that there is always more than one option. July 2016
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AMUSEMENT!
A Joyful Ride
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id you go for a ride on a roller coaster, d didn‛t d ‛ you? Well, the biggest and widest roller coaster in India is at Mumbai. This is a steel floorless roller coaster and is known as ‘Nitro‛. It is a part of Adlabs Imagica amusement park in Khopoli, Mumbai. This was designed by Bolliger & Mabillard. It was opened to public in October 2013. Nitro is a unique roller coaster as there is no floor on its trains. Make sure you go for a ride on this big roller coaster in your next vacation.
• The first Roller Coaster is thought to have been built in Russia in 1800‛s and the frames were made in wood. • LaMarcus Thompson designed the first official roller coaster in America in 1878. • The oldest operating roller coaster is Leap the Dips. It is located at Lakemont Park in Pennsylvania and was built in 1902.
Do you like a roller coaster ride? Why?
Yes. I love roller coasters! They are great. The twists and turns in the rollercoaster ride are fun.
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ART & CRAFT Paper Plate Snail Get a paper plate, orange nge colour paper, play dough, glue, sketch pens and a googly eye. Cut the colour paper per in the shape ult of a snail under adult e supervision. Invert the paper plate and paste e it on the snail as shown n in the picture. Stick k ke the googly eye. Make a pair of tentacles and letters of alphabet using sing play dough. Now stick k the tentacles and letters rs as shown. Your alphabet snail is ready!
Cotton Balls Sheep
Take some cotton and make cotton balls. Now stick the cotton balls on the sheep as shown.
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STORY Whoa! You look so beautiful.
The Butterfly
Story so far........ One day, a little boy, Rohan sees a cocoon in the garden. Rohan eagerly waits for the butterfly to come out of the cocoon. At last, one day the cocoon cracks a little. Rohan tries to help the butterfly by making the crack little bigger using scissors. Finally, the butterfly comes out of the cocoon, but doesn‛t fly. Read on to know what happpened.... Something is seriously wrong. I will go and call father. Come on! Little Butterfly! Why don‛t you fly?
Yes, Rohan, why are you shouting?
Rohan ran to his home.
Father! Father!
Father! Come with me to the garden.
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It‛s the butterfly. It is not flying.
Why? Tell me what happened?
Rohan and his father went to the garden. The butterfly was still struggling to fly……
Oh! Rohan! You should not have cut the cocoon.
I cut the cocoon to help the butterfly come out. Always remember Rohan. If you do not undergo any struggle you can‛t be successful.
The butterfly‛s efforts to come out of its cocoon will prepare its body and wings to fly.
This butterfly has emerged easily. That‛s why it is not able to fly.
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ALPHABET ART
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FUN ACTIVITIES
What comes Next?
Help H elp Box
Match the missing part with the correct number given. 2 1
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6 5 4
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FUN ACTIVITIES
How Many?
Match the babies with their parents.
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FUN ACTIVITIES Oh! The Penguin is lost. Show w tthe h e way ttoo Pe Penguin. Help me!
Circle the two similar icecreams!
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FUN ACTIVITIES Find 10 differences between the pictures.
Match the animals with their shadows.
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WORD WALL Write a, an and the in front of the picture.
Complete the crossword with the help of given pictures.
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MENTOR SPEAKS Are we unknowingly harming our
CHILDREN
by the way we communicate with them?
Ms. Swati Popat Vats Avoid using unnecessary questions “Are you going to eat your food or not?” in which there is no choice, children get confused and they feel frustrated. When you ask, “Do you want to listen to a story?” and children may say ‘No‛ but the teacher still continues with the story, this irritates children and they feel let down. Avoid sarcasm When a child breaks a toy, we get irritated and say, ‘Yes, break them all‛, and he dutifully proceeds to do so and to his utter consternation finds that you are angrier!
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Give requests and directions positively, start a sentence with a positive and not a negative ‘Walk slowly‛ would be a better way of instructing, instead of saying,‛ Don‛t run‛. Similarly, instead of saying, ‘Don‛t sit there‛, it is better to say, ‘Let‛s sit here as you may get hurt on that stool‛. It is important to give instructions to children that also explain the reason why you do not want them to do a particular thing or act. Just telling them not to do it, is not enough. Avoid repeating your instructions Repetition is good for children, but it should not be boring or it becomes drill and then children tend to switch off and ignore the message. When you tend to repeat yourself too much then it also teaches children that you
It is important for adults to learn how to communicate with children. Because children know 100 ways of communicating with you, but sadly we know only one- talking. Raised eyebrows, smiling, hugging, biting your lips, aren‛t these forms of communication? Remember, communication happens on two levels, one with words and the other with body language.
are not serious the first time and they will learn to listen to you only after you have repeated the instruction a couple of times. Eye contact is very important for good listening and once you have their attention, give your instruction to the point. If you feel you want to repeat then questioning would be a better way to repeat. Do not talk too loudly I believe that inside us is an angel and a devil. The angel talks very softly and the devil shouts. So if the child is surrounded with adults who talk loudly and shout all the time then the child learns to listen to loud voices and hence he will always listen to the
inner devil. But if we surround the child with soft voices, soothing calm voices, then he will hear the voice of the angel and it will guide him to make the right decisions. • At age one follow one step directionscome here, sit here, etc • At age two follow two step directionslike bring the ball and come here, sit here and play, etc • At age three it‛s time for three step directions - go to the table, pick up the spoon and bring it here. • At age four, follow 4 step directions and by age 5 and forever at least 5 step directions.
Communication with your child will help your child develop confidence and self esteem, so invest your time and focus on correct communication styles to suit your child.
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THUMB PRINT ART
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