Activity 1.: Make A Name Puzzle

Name: Date Class: Kindergarten
Unit: Literacy (Me) Week 2
Dear Parents,
Your child will need your support and guidance for these activities. However, use
your discretion to give as much opportunity as possible for independent work.
Activity 1.
Make a Name Puzzle
Help your child make the leap to the next level. This activity aims to help your
child understand that letters put together in a certain order make words. This
engagement with your child’s own name can be extended to names of family
members and is sure-to-become a favorite family game for the next few weeks
What You Need:
An envelope
Two strips of paper (about 9-12 inches in
length)
Scissors
A red magic/bold marker
A black magic/bold marker
What You Do:
1. Use the black marker to write your child’s first name neatly in big bold
letters on the first strip of paper.
2. Do the same thing in red on the second strip. You’ll want to leave about a
finger-width of space between each letter so that you can cut her/him apart
later.
3. Show the black strip to your child and tell him that this is her/his name.
Run your finger under the name from left to right as you say it aloud. Have
your child do the same. Now point to each letter, one at a time, and ask the
child to say the letter name aloud.
4. Leaving the first strip intact, pick up the second strip with the red letters
and cut the letters apart into individual pieces. As you make each cut, say
the name of the letter that you are cutting off the strip.
5. Mix up the pieces.
6. It’s puzzle time! Ask your child to help you put the red name puzzle back
together, using the black strip as a guide. This provides the child lots of support
as the red letters are to be matched to their black letter mates.
7. Speaking the names of the letters aloud helps kids make connections between
what she/he see and what she/he hear. So for best practice, encourage your
child to say the name of each letter aloud, as she/he puts it into place.
Encourage your child to try to put the pieces together in order, so she/he gets
used to the sequence of the letters. You can help your child along with hints. (For
example, to complete a name puzzle for “Mehar,” you might ask your child to
look for the letter “M” first, rather than picking up a random piece and putting it in
its place.)
8. After she/he has successfully matched the red letters to the black ones to build
their name, it’s time to fly solo and do it independently! Ask her/him to build their
name from memory, without looking at the black strip.
9. Finally, when clean-up time comes, slide all those reds and blacks into the
envelope, and help your child write her/his name on the outside of it of the
envelope, saying each letter aloud as it is written. Store the puzzle pieces and
the name strip in the envelope for later practice.
Note: To further enhance this activity please emphasis on the sound

of each letter, attached is the jolly phonic link for the sound for your
reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qpn2839Kro
Activity 2.
Alphabet Hunt
Ask a child if she/he wants to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed.
But ask if she/he'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.
This game helps kids practice their letters and test out their vocabulary
knowledge. This activity is to be done in a span of 2-3 days.
What You Need:
Magazine or newspapers
A4 sheets
Markers
Glue
What You Do:

1. Have your child use the markers to write all the letters of the alphabet in
a column running down the left side of the sheet.
2. Once she/he has written all the letters, it's time for her/him to find
objects! Give her/him magazines and newspapers and ask her/him to
hunt for a picture that begins with each of the letters. (An
"acrobat/aeroplane, apple, arm" would work for A, a ball /
basket/bag/bulb" would fulfill B). As she/he finds and matches to the
letters, she/he can cut out the picture and glue it next to the letter that
she/he wrote. The game continues until there's something for each
letter of the alphabet.
 This is a fun way to reinforce the alphabet and pre writing & reading skills.
 Cutting and pasting strengthen fine motor skills in fingers.
 It is an opportunity to guide your child to inculcate self-management skills
by:
o Making a plan for the number of letters to be addressed on a day,
o Identifying and collecting resources needed (scissors, glue, old
magazines and papers, a damp cloth to wipe sticky hands, a waste
paper basket for unused cuttings etc.)
o Supporting your child to work to the planned schedule by staying
with the task till completion of the day’s plan.
o Clearing up after finishing for the day.
Activity 3.
Take a Picture Walk
Everyone’s heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration?
Encourage the children to use pictures as clues to understand the meaning of a
story, and guesstimate the meaning of
unfamiliar words by using clues and
making connections.
Here’s how it works:
What You Need:
A picture book
What You Do:

1. Hold the book so your child can see the cover. Read the title aloud.
2. Ask the child “What do you see?” The child might begin to describe the picture
straight away. In that case, you could prompt by asking, what else do you see
beside the picture. This is called a “picture walk” because you’re going to walk
through the pictures in the book without reading the words.
3. Start right from the top. Take a look at the cover and give your child a
chance to take a look as well. Describe what you see in the picture. For
example, “In this picture, I see a mama bear and her little bear cubs having
a picnic.”
4. Now it’s the child’s turn! Open the first page of the story and ask him/her to
describe what he/she sees happening on this page, just as you did when
you described the cover illustration. Encourage him/her to speak in
sentences and to give as many details as possible, referring to the
characters, the setting (location/background/venue), and the story events.
You can help by giving clue prompts like, “What is the cub wearing?” /
“What does she/he have in their hand?”
5. Continue in this manner, until there is only one page left in the book.
6. Before you turn to the last page, ask her/him to guess how the story ends,
based on what she/he has seen so far. If you think your child is ready, you
could explain that by thinking about all that your child has understood from
the pictures and using this understanding to think how the story ends is
called prediction. “You have predicted the end.)
7. Then, turn the page and reveal the final picture. Was her guess correct?
8. Your walk is over. And you’ve given the child a new tool to reading.
9. In addition to growing language and communication skills, interpreting
pictures, and making predictions about the end of a story inculcates the
skill of sharp observation to pick up clues for making LOGICAL CHOICES
AND DECISIONS. This is a life skill.
10. Now that you’ve done a walk through the pictures, it’s time to crack
the book open and enjoy the words.
Activity 4.
Story time is fun time.

Instructions: Parents kindly narrate the story to the children 2-3 times and ask
them questions. Some examples of questions you could ask are given at the end of
the story.
My Friends
My name is Roshni. I have some very good friends. I
ride the bus with my friends Rahul and Jai. They live
on my street. At school, Rahul, Jai and I play with
Lisa and Meena on the playground. We all eat lunch
together too. I also have friends from my soccer
team. They are named Amar and Jake. Sometimes I
get to see my cousins Ankit and Ketan. They are my
friends too. I like all my friends.
Answer the following questions.

1. Which friends ride the bus with
Roshni?
2. Which friends play soccer
together?
3. Who plays with Rahul and Jai on
the playground?
4. Who are the cousins? Whose
cousins are they?
5. Who all eat lunch together?
Note: Please scribe your child’s answers and send them by email.

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Name: Date Class: Kindergarten

Unit: Literacy (Me) Week 2

5. Mix up the pieces.

Note: To further enhance this activity please emphasis on the sound

What You Do:

What You Do:

Story time is fun time.

Answer the following questions.

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