Friday
To complete today’s activities, you will need:
something to draw on
something to draw with
scissors
Exploring with our senses
Learning goal: Children use their senses to explore their environment.
We're going to explore our senses.
1. Pause the video after each instruction.
2. Tell someone your answer to the questions about what you can see, feel, smell, taste and hear.
Exploring our senses
Duration: 2:03
Shared reading - Caar Caaar
Learning goal: Children listen to and respond to sounds in stories.
Before the story: In the story ‘Caar Caaar’, you will see and hear lots of animals. Draw three animals that you know. What sounds do they make?
Listen to the story. Select the picture to follow the link and view the video.
After the story: Wow! That was a busy story full of lots of sounds. Time to go on a sound hunt. Move around a room or go for a walk with a family member. Draw, write or make the sounds that you hear.
ABC (2021) 'Grandpa Honeyant Storytime' [video], ABC iView, accessed 18 August 2021.
Want to learn more?
Close your eyes and picture all of the sounds that you heard. Can you make up a story about these sounds? Draw the beginning, middle and end of your story.
Perform or read your story to a friend or family member. Ask them what sounds they heard.
Moving and relaxing
Learning goal: Children move their bodies confidently and explore and respond to their world.
If you have space outside, practice a handstand or cartwheel or try one of the other ideas on this activity card.
After your physical activity:
Lay on the grass and look up or look out the window. What pictures can you make out of the clouds?
Tell your family about what you can see.
Puzzle
Learning goal: Children manipulate objects and experiment with many solutions.
Let's make a tangram.
You will need:
paper
scissors
an adult to help.
Watch the clip to learn how to make a tangram.
Put the tangram back together like you are doing a puzzle.
Making tangrams
Duration: 4:06
How are you feeling?
Learning goal: Children express their feelings and begin to recognise how others might be feeling.
How do you think the children in this photo are feeling?
Draw how you are feeling today.
Find some photos of you and your family.
What do you notice about the photos? What words can you use to describe the facial expressions? Do you think they are happy, sad or excited? Talk to someone about your ideas.
Image owned by the NSW Department of Education under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth)
Want to learn more?
Look at yourself in a mirror.
Draw your own face, a self-portrait, showing how you are feeling at the moment. You might be happy, sad, tired or angry.
Extra learning activities
Learn to count through the song, 'One, two, buckle my shoe' and the story, 'Goodnight numbers' with these literacy and numeracy activities.