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To complete today's activities, you will need:
something to draw on
something to draw with
small toys
water and two small containers or cups
four buckets or big containers
materials to set up a pretend cafe or takeaway
Overview of today's activities
Overview of today's activities
Activity 1: Family stories (15 minutes)
Activity 2: Cafe or takeaway play (30 minutes)
Activity 3: Water game (15 minutes)
Break
Activity 4: Shared story (20 minutes)
Activity 5: Ducks away! (30 minutes)
Please note - time in brackets is an approximation only.
Family stories
Family stories
Learning goal: Children develop their social and cultural heritage.
Ask a family member to tell or read you a story that is special to them.
It might be a story they heard as a child themselves or a recount of something they did as a child.
Image owned by the NSW Department of Education under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth)​
Cafe or takeaway play
Cafe or takeaway play
Learning goal: Children understand that symbols can carry meaning and adopt the role of literacy user in their play.
Set up a play cafe or takeaway:
Arrange some seating and a kitchen play area.
Draw a list of the foods you will sell.
Invite people in your family to come and order something from your cafe or takeaway.
Prepare and serve the pretend food.
Too hard?
Too hard?
Ask someone to help you set up a kitchen corner.
Use paper plates glue food pictures on them for your kitchen
Set up a kitchen corner and pretend to cook lunch or dinner.
Too easy?
Too easy?
Include prices on the menu. When someone orders food, take their money and give them change.
Water game
Water game
Learning goal: Children play cooperatively.
Ask someone in your family to join you.
You will each need two big buckets or containers and one smaller container, like a cup.
Outside, fill two of the big containers with water. Leave the other two empty.
Place the two empty containers 10 steps away from the full ones.
Race each other to tip water from the full containers into the empty ones, as quickly as you can!
The person who fills one of the empty containers first is the winner.
Take a break
Take a break
Here are some things you might like to do:
have a drink of water and a healthy snack
play or have a rest
go to the toilet and wash your hands.
"Boy with glass of water, 2000" by Seattle Municipal Archives is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio. pexels.com
"Washing hands" by magnusfranklin is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
Shared story - Go home, cheeky animals!
Shared story - Go home, cheeky animals!
Learning goal: Children consider the perspective of different story characters.
Listen to the story.
ABC Kids (15 December 2017) 'Go Home, Cheeky Animals! read by Jack Charles' [video], YouTube, accessed 9 September 2021.
Who are the cheeky animals? (dogs, goats, donkeys, horses, buffalo, camels)
What do the people want the dogs to do? (chase the cheeky animals away)
Why do you think the dogs don't want to get up?
The people said the dogs were lazy. Do you think the dogs were lazy?
Too hard?
Too hard?
Draw some of the cheeky animals. Who have you drawn?
Too easy?
Too easy?
Listen to the story again:
What did the cheeky goats do?
What did the cheeky donkeys do?
What did the cheeky horses do?
What did the cheeky buffalo do?
What did the cheeky camels do?
What happens at the end of the story?
Ducks away!
Ducks away!
Learning goal: Children engage with the mathematical concept of number.
Draw some water, a bridge and five ducks.
How many ducks did you draw on the bridge? How many ducks did you draw in the water? How many ducks are there altogether?
Too hard?
Too hard?
Have someone sing the words while you try the actions.
Sing Five little ducks and do the actions.
Too easy?
Too easy?
Do another drawing, but with lots more ducks.
How many ducks did you draw on the bridge? How many did you draw in the water? How many ducks did you draw altogether?
Extra learning activities
Extra learning activities
The video is for families. It shows how to make simple puppets and talks about what children learn when they play with puppets.
Raising Children Network (5 June 2018), 'Making simple puppets' [video], YouTube, accessed 8 September 2021.
Child voice
Child voice
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