Activities per theme

Roleplay corner

Pretend play with cooking and food materials.

Arts and creativity corner

Modeling food items out of clay, Colouring food items.

Numeracy corner

Place food items and empty tins according to size and shape.

Play the game;

• How many are gone?

Show that you have for example 5 oranges and tell the child to close his/her eyes. Hide 3 oranges and ask the child to open his/her eyes, then ask: How many are gone?

Practice this with different quantities.

• Throw the tins

Start with 6 tins and place them on each other. (see picture).

Let one child throw the tins from a distance with a soft ball.

How many have fallen? Let the children count.

Place the tins back on each and let another child throw the soft ball.

How many have fallen? Who has more?

Literacy corner

Memory-game with food items (differentiating shapes)

Outdoor game:

Cooking soup: Divide the children in 4 or 6 smaller groups. Let each group come up with a food item which can be added in the soup; e.g. tomatoes, onions, meet, oil etc. Every group should mention another food item. The teacher is the cook and stand in the middle of the playground. The groups are standing in corners. The teacher says he wants to cook food and shouts the food item he wants to have in his soup. E.g. “Onions!” Then all children from that group come and run around the teacher (all in the same direction). The teacher can add another food item/group of children. And pretends to keep stirring in the soup. He pretends to taste the soup and then suddenly shouts “The soup is ready!” All children run back to their corner, while the teacher runs after them trying to catch the children.

Songs/riddles:

Mama in the kitchen, cooking chapatti, I like chapatti njam njam njam

Roleplay corner

Let the children act out as if they are at the doctor.

Arts and creativity corner

• Let children model dolls out of clay.
• Draw themselves

Numeracy corner

Counting of fingers; how many have I hidden for you?

Literacy corner

• Memory game with body parts
• Place the body parts cards at the right place (see picture)

Outdoor game

Let the children run around. One child will try to touch them. When a child is touched, he/she will hold his/her own hand on this place and is now the person trying to catch the other children.

Songs/riddles:

Head Shoulders Knee and Toes

Roleplay corner

Children act out the different roles of family members at home; father, mother, grandparents, children. Using materials found at home; broom, utensils, chair etc.

Arts and creativity corner

Design a hut with clay and grass. Make dolls out of clay with different sizes.

Numeracy corner

Place family members (made out of clay or paper) in order according to size.

Literacy corner

Group objects and pictures according to their first letter sound;

• Mother, mat maize
• Father, Fish
• Grandfather, goat, grass
• Child, chicken

Outdoor game

Mother, mother what time is it? One child is standing next to the wall, with her face towards the wall. She is the mother. The other children stand about 10 – 15 meters away behind a line. They jointly ask the mother; mother mother what time is it? The mother keeps staring at the wall and says a time; such as “2 o’clock”. Now the children make 2 steps. The children ask again; mother mother what time is it? The mother keeps staring at the wall and says a time; such as “3 o’clock”. Now the children make 3 steps. When the mother feels like the children are coming close, she says “Its time to go to bed!” She then runs towards the children to try to catch them. The children are save behind the line. When the children reach the mom, before she had said “It’s time to go to bed” the children are the winner.

Songs/riddle

Bye bye teacher, teacher of tomorrow, I am going home to see my mother, my mother is at home

Roleplay corner

Children act out the different uses of transport. Using materials like a steerwheel, to pretend they are jointly moving with a car.

Arts and creativity corner

Make means of transport out of tins, bottles, paper.

Numeracy corner

Memory game with types of transport

Literacy corner

Make the lettershape O, like the wheels of the car using bottle tops.

Outdoor game

Songs/riddle 

The wheels of the bus go round and round.

Roleplay corner

Children act out different uses of water at home; using utensils (Basin,bottle, jug, cup, saucepan, spoon, soap) clothes and watering can.

Arts and creativity corner

Make a cup out of clay

Numeracy corner

Fill bottles with different amounts of water and place them in order accordingly. Do they all make the same sound when you touch them with a stick?

Literacy corner

Memory game with items used for water; Basin, bottle, jug, cup, saucepan, spoon, soap, watering can.

Place all items starting with the S in one location; Saucepan, Spoon, Soap.

Place all items starting with the B at another place; Basin, Bottle, Bucket

Outdoor game

Water run; divide the learners in two groups. Let both groups stand in a line behind a bucket of water. Place two bottles on the other side of the playground (around 15-20 meters away). Let one child per group run with a cup to the bottle to fill it with water and then run back to give the cup to the next child. Let this child also fill the cup to fill the bottle. Which group has filled the bottle as first?

Songs/riddle