Friday
To complete today's activities, you will need:
something to draw on
something to draw with
Happy memories
Learning goal: Children sense a feeling of belonging when remembering something happy.
Watch the video.
Draw a picture of one of your happiest memories.
Happy memories
Duration: 1:45
Shared story - Back to sleep
Learning goal: Children transfer ideas and make representations from the story.
Listen to the story 'Back to Sleep' by Zoë Foster Blake.
After listening to the story:
draw a picture of Finn, the little boy from the story
draw one place you remember from the book.
'Back to Sleep'
Duration: 10:19
Penguin Books Australia (6 October 2020) 'Back to sleep by Zoe Foster Blake and Mike Jacobsen' [video], YouTube, accessed 18 August 2021.
Bounce the ball
Learning goal: Children will use their developing coordination skills to bounce the ball.
Find a ball or something to bounce.
Listen to the Munch and Move 'Bounce the ball' song.
Bounce your ball along with the music.
For more Munch and Move songs, go to the website.
Photo by RODNAE Productions from Pexels
14.Bouncetheball.mp3NSW Government (2020) 'Bounce the ball', Munch and Move, accessed 20 August 2021
Using your senses
Learning goal: Children are able to engage with two complex ideas - counting and using different senses.
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Try to find:
five things you can see
four things you can hear
three things you can feel
two things you can smell
one thing you can taste.
Brain break
Duration: 2:12
What do you see?
Learning goal: Children use the creative arts to express ideas about what they see.
Look carefully at this picture.
Tell someone about what objects, colours and shapes you can see.
Using your coloured pencils, have a go at drawing this picture.
Image by Kohji Asakawa from Pixabay