Wednesday

To complete today's activities, you will need:

something to draw on

something to draw with

obstacle course materials e.g. buckets, towels, pillows (optional)

natural materials such as leaves, small stones or sticks

Healthy habits

Learning goal: Children understand that eating healthy foods helps them stay healthy.

Watch the video.

Maria talked about things we can do to be strong and healthy. She said:

  • eat healthy food

  • drink lots of water

  • get plenty of sleep

  • go for walks in the park.



Healthy habits
Duration: 2:18

A composition of different fruits and vegetables.

Image Source: NSW Department of Health, Western Sydney Local Health District

One way to remember to eat healthy food, is to “eat a rainbow”. This means eating fruit and vegetables that are all the colours of the rainbow.

  • What foods do you eat that are red?

  • What foods do you eat that are orange?

  • What about foods that are green, blue and purple?

Watch the video to learn more about eating a rainbow!

Healthy foods
Duration: 12:47

Shared story - Harry the dirty dog

Learning goal: Children make connections between the characters of the story and their lives.

Listen to the story, 'Harry the Dirty Dog' by Gene Zion.

  • Do you have a dog or does someone you know, have a dog?

  • Is it a cheeky dog, like Harry? If so, what cheeky things does it do?

  • What might have happened if Harry didn't have a bath?

  • Draw a dog you know. You can use a picture if you can't think of a dog.

  • Tell someone about the dog you have drawn.

'Harry the Dirty Dog'
Duration: 6:26

Penguin Books Australia (23 September 2020) 'Harry the dirty dog by Gene Zion and Margaret Bloy Graham' [video], YouTube, accessed 18 August 2021.

Favourite colours

Learning goal: Children share their favourite and least favourite colours.

Watch the video and join in the activity.

  • What is your favourite colour?

  • How many objects did you find?

  • Is there a colour you don't like? What is it? Why don't you like it? Tell someone about it.

  • Ask someone in your family what their favourite colour is.

Brain break
Duration: 1:13

Patterns

Learning goal: Children manipulate objects to make patterns and use mathematical language to describe their patterns.

  1. Look at the photos. What do you see?

  2. Go outside and collect natural materials from the ground, such as leaves, sticks or small stones.

  3. Arrange your materials in a pattern.

  4. Tell someone about your pattern.

  5. Try making a harder pattern.

  6. Ask someone to make a pattern for you to copy.

A repeating pattern of vertical and horizontal twigs.
A repeating pattern of small leaves and pebbles.
A repeating pattern of three different types of leaves
A concentric circle pattern with a large leaf in the middle then a circle of pebbles followed by a border circle of long leaves.
A star shaped pattern of leaves and pebbles.

Want to learn more?

Make patterns:

  • using coloured blocks or Lego

  • using beads or buttons

  • by drawing different shapes.

Obstacle course

Learning goal: Children develop gross motor skills.

  1. Watch the video.

  2. Make an obstacle course in your backyard, lounge room or anywhere with enough space that you can safely move around. Use materials from your home, such as buckets, towels, ropes, pegs, pillows, blankets.

  3. Complete your obstacle course.

  4. Do your obstacle course again, this time in the other direction.

  5. Now try skipping around your obstacle course.

Early Stage 1.MP4

Want to learn more?

  1. Draw a map of the obstacle course you made.

  2. In your map, include the start and finish lines.

  3. Include arrows to show the direction people should move.

Virtual excursion

Learning goal: Children view multimedia text to broaden their understanding of the world in which they live.

Watch the video.

Australian National Maritime Museum (25 June 2020) 'Watch out seagulls: Bailey on the chase' [video], YouTube, accessed 18 August 2021.

Did you know some dogs have jobs?

What other jobs do dogs have?

Extra learning activities

Play animated videos with the words and tunes of popular children’s songs and nursery rhymes with ‘Baby Karaoke’.

Child voice