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To complete today’s activities, you will need:
something to draw on
something to draw with
empty containers or boxes
items to fill the containers such as water, sand, small stones or rice
Leaf drawing
Leaf drawing
Learning goal: Children are able to recognise and recreate features of a leaf.
Learning goal: Children are able to recognise and recreate features of a leaf.
Find a living plant or tree. If there is no plant or tree near you, look at the picture.
Look very closely at one of the leaves on the plant or tree.
Make sure you don't pick the leaf, as it is alive.
Talk with someone about the leaf you are looking at:
What colour is it?
What shape is it?
Does it smell?
How does it feel?
What else do you notice about the leaf?
Draw the leaf.
Geekstreet, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Did you know?
Did you know?
For thousands of years Aboriginal people have crushed up the leaves of eucalyptus trees to make medicine.
Want to learn more?
Want to learn more?
Find out the name of the tree or plant you looked at. Someone in your family might know or could help you by looking in a book or on the computer.
Go outside for a walk and collect different leaves from the ground. When back inside, sort your leaves into groups, such as by size or colour.
Where in the world?
Where in the world?
Learning goal: Children show an awareness of diversity in ways of living.
Learning goal: Children show an awareness of diversity in ways of living.
Select the picture to follow the link to view episode 7.
In Vietnam, Truc and her sister bought three new fish. Why did they buy the fish?
In Russia, Liza and her twin brother made lucky horseshoes.
Who did they give the horseshoes to?
In Jordan, Hamza helped his mum make pizza.
Where did his family eat the pizza?
ABC 'Where in the world? Series 1, Episode 7- Liza, Hamza and Truc. Goes shopping for goldfish', iView, accessed 10 August 2021.
Choose an activity to do:
Draw or paint a picture of the four fish friends swimming.
Make an artwork to give to someone special.
Help someone in your family cook a meal.
Hide and Seek
Hide and Seek
Learning goal: Children follow game rules and cooperate to successfully play with others.
Learning goal: Children follow game rules and cooperate to successfully play with others.
Find a safe place and set a boundary to play in.
How to play:
One person must close their eyes and count to 10 slowly.
Everyone else quietly hides.
When the person counting has finished, they open their eyes and call out, 'Ready or not, here I come'.
When the people hiding are all found, the first person found becomes the person who closes their eyes and counts.
This video explains a traditional Aboriginal game of Hide and Seek, known as 'Brajerack'.
Sport Australia (25 July 2019) 'Yulunga Traditional Indigenous Games – Brajerack' [video], Sport Australia, accessed 10 August 2021.
Which container holds the most?
Which container holds the most?
Learning goal: Children talk about volume and capacity as they experiment filling and emptying containers.
Learning goal: Children talk about volume and capacity as they experiment filling and emptying containers.
Select the picture to view the video.
Find some empty containers or boxes and something to fill them with. You might use sand, dirt, rice or water.
Have fun filling each container and then tipping between them. Talk with someone about:
Which container holds the most?
Which container holds the least?
NSW Department of Education 'Everyday Maths- Which container holds the most?' [video], NSW Government, accessed 15 August 2021.
Want to learn more?
Want to learn more?
Find some small objects, such as stones, lego pieces or toy cars.
Pick one of your containers. Guess how many of the small objects are needed to fill the container.
Have a go, counting each object as you put it into the container.
Try again with a different container.
Body percussion patterns
Body percussion patterns
Learning goal: Children use body percussion to copy and create simple patterns.
Learning goal: Children use body percussion to copy and create simple patterns.
Select the picture to view the video.
How many different sounds can you make with your body?
Try these body percussion patterns:
clap, clap, slap your thighs
clap, clap, slap your thighs...
stamp one foot, rub your hands together
stamp one foot, rub your hands together...
Brain break
Duration: 1:14
Want to learn more?
Create your own pattern using body percussion.
Ask someone in your family to copy your pattern.
Perform body percussion to your favourite song.
Extra learning activities
Extra learning activities
Games are a fun way to get your child thinking, communicating and reasoning like a mathematician. Here are five games for you to play together.
Child voice
Child voice
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