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To complete today's activities, you will need:
a piece of paper
something to draw with
scissors
ball
sheets or towels
plastic containers or skittles
Overview of today's activities
Overview of today's activities
Activity 1: Superhero poses (30 minutes)
Activity 2: Cubby building (30 minutes)
Activity 3: Kicking game (15 minutes)
Break
Activity 4: Sound 'I spy' (15 minutes)
Activity 5: Memory game (30 minutes)
Please note - time in brackets is an approximation only.
Superhero poses
Superhero poses
Learning goal: Children engage in play to imagine, explore different identities and create roles.
Watch this video and follow the instructions to pose like a superhero.
Invent your own superhero.
Draw your superhero.
What does your superhero look like?
What is your superhero's special power?
How does your superhero help people?
Pretend to be your superhero.
Cubby building
Cubby building
Learning goal: Children use their imagination and creativity.
Build a cubby or fort:
Use things such as sheets, towels, large cardboard boxes or furniture.
Build your cubby inside or outside.
If you want ideas, watch the video to see Liz and Julie-Ann building a cubby made of sticks.
Play in your cubby!
NSW Department of Education (5 May 2020) 'Let's build a cubby' [video], Field of Mars EEC, YouTube, accessed 6 September 2021.
Too hard?
Too hard?
Build your cubby by putting a sheet over the top of an empty table.
Too easy?
Too easy?
Can you extend your cubby by adding another room?
Take some snacks, toys, books and a torch into your cubby so you can play a while.
Kicking game
Kicking game
Learning goal: Children develop the fundamental movement skill of kicking.
Watch the first video to learn how to kick a ball.
Watch the second video to learn how to play a kicking game.
Set up skittles or plastic containers to play the kicking game.
NSW Health (14 June 2017) 'Kick - Munch & Move' [video], YouTube, accessed 6 September 2021.
NSW Health (14 June 2017), 'Kick soccer skittles - Munch & Move' [video], YouTube, accessed 6 September 2021.
Too hard?
Too hard?
Ask someone to hang a ball for you to practice with. This can be done with a bag such as an orange bag. Bat the ball with your hand or foot.
Instead of a ball, try kicking a balloon.
Too easy?
Too easy?
Play a game of soccer with someone in your family.
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
Sound 'I spy'
Sound 'I spy'
Learning goal: Children begin to understand that words are made up of sounds.
Get ready to play:
Gather together a collection of small objects.
Say the name of each object and practice making the sound it starts with (just the sound, not the letter name).
Put the objects in a box or container.
Pull out one object at a time, making the sound it starts with. For example, if you pull out a fork, make the sound 'f'.
Play 'I spy':
Ask someone to play with you.
Arrange all of the objects in front of you.
The first person picks an object but doesn't point or say which one it is.
They say, 'I spy with my little eye something beginning with (and says the sound the object starts with).'
The second person points to an object starting with that sound.
If they don't guess, they can try again.
Swap so the second person picks the object and makes the sound.
Too hard?
Too hard?
Use colour instead of sound for guessing. 'I spy with my little eye something black'
Ask someone in your family to say each sound for you to copy.
Too easy?
Too easy?
Rather than playing with a collection of objects, play in a room or outside.
Memory game
Memory game
Learning goal: Children play a game cooperatively, taking turns and following rules.
Make your own memory game:
Cut a piece of paper into 8 cards.
On each pair of cards, draw the same picture.
Play your memory game:
You will need one other person to play with.
Turn all the cards over and mix them up.
Take it in turns turning over two cards at a time.
If the two cards turned over are the same, the person who turned them over holds the two cards.
If the two cards turned over are not the same, turn them over again and it is the next person's turn.
When all the pairs have been matched, the person holding the most cards is the winner.
Too hard?
Too hard?
Place all cards face up, so you can see the pictures. Take it in turns matching the pictures that are the same together.
Play the memory game using only 4 cards.
Too easy?
Too easy?
Play with more than 16 cards.
Play with more than two people.
Extra learning activities
Extra learning activities
Learn to count through song and story.
Open the Early childhood literacy and numeracy resource or view the document below.
Child voice
Child voice
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