Monday

To complete today's activities, you will need:

something to draw on

something to draw with

a soft toy

fabric such as a tea towel, small blanket or towel

wool or string

playdough

Overview of today's activities

  • Activity 1: Bushland treasures (30 minutes)

  • Activity 2: Toy carrier (20 minutes)

  • Activity 3: Jazz dance (15 minutes)

Break

  • Activity 4: Hearing rhyme (15 minutes)

  • Activity 5: Playdough worms (15 minutes)

Please note - time in brackets is an approximation only.

Bushland treasures

Learning goal: Children develop a connection to and respect for our natural environment.

  1. Watch this video.

  2. Go for a walk outside with someone in your family.

  3. Like Julie-Ann does in the video, collect natural materials from the ground.

  4. Use what you found to create different pictures.

NSW Department of Education (5 May 2020) 'Bushland treasures' [video], Field of Mars EEC, YouTube, accessed 6 September 2021.

Four examples of children's artwork created using leaves and twigs. Each artwork represents a bird.
Child's artwork created with leaves and twigs. The picture represents a person.

Too hard?

  • If you can't go for a walk outside, create your picture using craft materials.

Too easy?

  • Describe your pictures to someone and ask them to write down what you say about each picture.


Toy carrier

Learning goal: Children persist and problem solve to complete a task.

Follow these steps to make a toy carrier:

  1. Collect some of your soft toys and some fabric, a towel, wool or string.

  2. Think about how you can make the carrier. The photos below might give you some ideas.

  3. Draw your ideas.

  4. Make the carrier and try it out. If it doesn't work, try again.

  5. Carry your toy!

A selection of different soft toys.
Photo shows a pile consisting of a towel, two baby blankets, a ball of wool and string.

Too hard?

  • Use a small toy, this will make the carrier easier to make.

  • Try using something that already has a pouch such as an apron with pockets or a small pillow case.

Too easy?

  • Make the carrier so that you can use it without needing to use your hands.

Jazz dance

Learning goal: Children engage in physical activity to stay healthy.

Watch this video and follow the instructions to do a jazz dance.

Too hard?

  • Rather than following the instructions, perform your own dance movements.

  • Use any single part of your body to make movements to the music.

Too easy?

  • After learning the movements, perform the dance for someone.

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.

Hearing rhyme

Learning goal: Children listen to and respond to rhyme.

  1. View this rhyming lesson (series 1, episode 8: Years F-1 rhyming)

  2. As you listen, keep an ear out for rhyming words. Remember, the end of rhyming words sound the same.

  3. These are some of the rhyming words in the story:

  • say - way

  • Trevor - never

  • mine - swine

  • stuff - puff

  • loot - scoot

  • cry - fly.

ABC Education Mini Lessons – in collaboration with State of Victoria (Department of Education and Training).

4. After the lesson, think of words that rhyme with each of these words:

star

(car, jar)

glass shaped star hanging

"Star" by nixternal is licensed under CC BY 2.0

cat

(mat, fat)

cat's head

pig

(dig, jig)

pig looking through a fence

"pig" by thornypup is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

frog

(dog, log)

green tree frog

Too hard?

  • Listen to the story again. Pause and replay to check when you think you have heard rhyming words.

Too easy?

  1. Think of words that rhyme with these:

    • man

    • leg

    • fit

    • stop

  1. Draw pictures of rhyming pairs. How many pairs did you draw?

Playdough worms

Learning goal: Children investigate measurement and use mathematical vocabulary to describe length.

Have fun playing with playdough. Make some worms.

  • Count your worms. How many worms did you make?

  • How can you find out which worm is the longest?

  • Which worm is the shortest?

  • Are any worms the same or equal length?

  • Line up your worms from shortest to longest.

five curvy worms made of green playdough

Find a pencil:

  • Make a worm longer than the pencil.

  • Make a worm shorter than the pencil.

  • Make a worm the same or equal in length to the pencil.

What else can you do with your playdough?

five straight green playdough worms
a fat green worm made of playdough next to a pencil

Too hard?

  • Get your hands ready by rolling some balls of playdough first.

  • Ask someone to make a long worm for you. Use a paddle pop stick an cut into short and long worms.

  • Make two worms. Lay them side by side. Which is the longest? Which is the shortest?

Too easy?

  • How many pegs long is your longest worm?

  • How many pegs long is your shortest worm?

  • Find something else to measure your worms with.

Extra learning activities

Child voice