Category: School Activities

For these learning activities use any bottle caps available at home including fruit pouch caps and jar lids.

Colour sorting

This activity helps children to make and create groups/sets.

Colour pieces of paper according to the colour of bottle caps available. Place the coloured paper on different plates or in a sorting tray (as seen in picture) and encourage your child to sort the coloured bottle caps accordingly.

 

Alternatively, use pompoms/ coloured buttons and sort according to the colour of the bottle cap.  

 

Measuring

Use the bottle caps as a non-standard unit of measure.  You can measure how long is a doll, a book etc. (as seen in picture).

How many bottle caps long is the book, the doll, my foot, etc.?

It is important to use same sized caps when measuring. This activity helps to develop the vocabulary of measurement and comparison, using terms such as shorter, taller, bigger, and smaller.

 

Stacking

This activity is beneficial because it develops hand-eye coordination and enhances logical thinking capability. Try stacking caps.

How many caps can you stack?

Encourage your child to count. You can also count in Maltese (wieħed, tnejn, tlieta etc.).

Check if it is easier to stack caps of different sizes or caps of the same size. Experiment using both same size and different sized bottle caps.

 

 

Making patterns

Patterns help children learn sequencing and make predictions. There are many different levels to teaching and learning pattern skills, here is the developmental sequence for teaching patterning skills to your child.

Stage 1: Recognize a pattern

Stage 2: Describe a pattern

Stage 3: Copy a pattern

Stage 4: Extend a pattern

Stage 5: Create a pattern

Imaginative / Sensory play

 

Fill a large basin with bottle/fruit juice caps, play kitchen utensils: spoons, cups, pots, pans and plastic cups. Water is optional but adds to the fun! There is no need for guidance during imaginative play, as children are quite creative! Imaginative play is beneficial in all areas of the child’s development and encourages them to learn through play.

Ms Nikita K1.9

Use this link for the number song : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHqjNHxmB7c&t=19s

How Clouds Make Rain

A cloud is where the rain comes from. A cloud is water in the air (water that we can see). When the weather is hot, water on the Earth becomes vapour (like the vapour coming out of a kettle when the water in it boils). This vapour rises in the air. Since up in the air it is colder, the vapour turns back into drops of water (ice). These drops of water in the air stick together and form clouds. When the clouds get full of water, the water falls back to the ground as rain.

Science Experiment: Making Rain

Materials needed:

• Glass jar
• Shaving foam
• Water
• Food Colouring

 

Before you start the experiment, explain to you child that:

• Water is the air
• The shaving foam is the cloud
• The food colouring is the rain

 

Experiment:

Make predictions before the activity and talk about what is happening while you are doing the experiment with your child.

• Half fill a jar or a glass with water.
• Put some shaving foam on top of the water.
• Finally with a pipette or teaspoon put some droplets of food colouring. 
  • Watch carefully as the droplets fall from the clouds (shaving foam) into the air (water) down below

   

  Click here to watch the video of this experiment.

  • youtube.com/watch?v=hgBo6P0rjoM

  Ms. Charlene Farrugia KG1. 8