Category: School Activities

Feed the Lion Literacy Game.

The aim of this activity is to help children identify the letters of the Maltese alphabet, learn letter sounds and enhance their vocabulary.

 

For this activity you will need:

• Cereal box (to make the lion box)
• Cardboard paper or cereal boxes (to make the alphabet cards)
• An A4 paper
• Colours
• A pair of scissors.
• A black Marker.
• Glue

Preparing the lion face and the alphabet cards

• Start by drawing the face of a lion, big enough to cover a cereal box, on a piece of paper. If you find it difficult to draw the lion’s face you can print one and ask your child to colour it instead.
• Stick the lion face to the cereal box.
• Cut out the lion’s mouth in order to make a mouth hole in the cereal box.
• Make a set of Maltese alphabet cards out of cereal boxes or card. Cut out 30 squares to make cards.
• On each card write a letter of the Maltese alphabet.

a,  b,  ċ,  d,  e,  f,  ġ,  g,  għ,  h,  ħ,  i,  ie, j,  k,  l,  m,  n,  o,  p, q,  r,  s,    t,  u,  v,   w,  x,   ż,  z.

How to play the game

It’s time to feed the lion

1. Ask your child to pick a letter of the alphabet, e.g. the letter ‘a’.
2. Encourage your child to say the letter sound and to find something that starts with ‘a’, e.g. a – ajruplan
3. Once the child finds a word that starts with that letter s/he has chosen, s/he can feed that letter to the lion.
4. Keep on playing the game by picking other letters.

At the end of the activity sing along the ‘Alfabett Malti’ song on you tube:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeM1Trggbw8

Ms. Charlene Farruġia

1. 1.8

 

Teaching Prepositions to young children

Prepositions are an important part of the language and help children to create more complex sentences. These are  examples of some prepositions: in, on, at, around, above, near. It is important that children learn these words from a young age so that they can carry out instructions.

Learning about prepositions doesn’t have to be boring. Teach prepositions through playing games and by presenting enjoyable activities so that the children can learn while they have fun.

Children benefit from repetition and from learning in a variety of different ways. When you introduce a new concept make them use all their senses to learn. Use movement, touch, sight, and hearing to teach children. This is called multi-sensory teaching. When they experience learning by using different senses, they learn more easily and retain the information better.

Follow the preposition

 

For this activity you need:   a box (big enough for your child to go into).

This multisensory game is intended to support the use of prepositions and to help children understand them. It consists of having your child listen to a set of directions and follow them. It involves movement, thus making it more fun and easier for them to learn and remember. Encourage your child to listen attentively to the directions given. This will help him/her develop his/her listening skills.

How to play this game:

1. Give the child a large box.
2. Then give him/her directions such as:

• “Put the box in front of you”
• “Jump over the box”
• “Put the box between you and the wall”
• “Walk around the box”.

 

Where does it go?

This is another multisensory activity which involves teaching prepositions through playing a game. It involves real objects, thus making the activity concrete and easier to learn and remember. Once again encourage your child to listen attentively to the instructions given.

To play this game you need:  a toy and a box

How to play this game:

Tell your child that you are going to give him a set of instructions. S/he must listen attentively to these instructions and follow them.

Give him/her directions such as:

1. “Put the toy on the box”
2. “Put the toy in the box”
3. “Put the toy under the box”
4. “Put the toy next to the box”.

Where is Teddy?

Watch this power point presentation with your child to consolidate learning.

Prepositions Ms Marita

Ms Marita K2.3