Friday

To complete today's activities, you will need:

something to draw on

something to draw with

3-4 sticks or paddle pop sticks

wool or string

a soft toy

optional - Lego or Duplo

optional - playdough

Overview of today's activities:

  • Activity 1: Tiddalick the frog (10 minutes)

  • Activity 2: Spider webs (30 minutes)

  • Activity 3: Wombat wobble (10 minutes)

Break

  • Activity 4: Sand castle (30 minutes)

  • Activity 5: Tell a story (20 minutes)

Please note, these times are an approximation only.

Tiddalick the frog

Learning goal: Children begin to understand the concept of fairness.

Listen to the Aboriginal dreaming story of 'Tiddalick the Frog'.

RedPixelsAnimation (13 Feburary 2012), ' Dreamtime Stories - Tiddalick the Frog' [video]. YouTube, accessed 15 September 2021.

  • Why were the animals upset with Tiddalick?

  • Was it fair that Tiddalick drank all the water?

  • How could Tiddalick have been fairer?

Too hard?

  • Pretend to be a frog.

  • Pretend you are Tiddalick drinking all the water.

  • Make a sad face.

  • Now pretend to be the other animals who are upset.

  • What other faces can you make? Try happy, surprised and angry.

Too easy?

  • Talk with someone about other situations which are unfair.

  • Use animal puppets to retell the story.

  • What could you do in an unfair situation?

Spider web

Learning goal: Children manipulate materials to represent a spider's web.

Have you ever seen a spider's web? What did it look like? Watch this spider weave a web.

JM Niester (nine years ago) 'Timelapse: une araignée tisse sa toile' [video], Vimeo, accessed 15 September 2021.

Watch this video to learn how to make a spider web.

Follow these instructions to make a spider's web.

You will need:

  • 3-4 sticks or paddle pop sticks

  • string or wool.

What to do:

Three long sticks laying over one another, crossing each other in the middle of each stick.

1. Lay the sticks across one another.


Hands are weaving the wool around the sticks from the centre outwards, to create the effect of a spider web.

3. Going round and round, weave your string or wool around each stick.

Hands are using thick yellow wool to tie the sticks together in the middle, where they cross.

2. Tie the sticks together in the middle and wind the wool around a few times.

The wool has been woven to the ends of the sticks. Hands are using scissors to cut the end of the wool off.

4. When you are finished, cut the string and tie a knot.

Too hard?

  • Use only two sticks.

  • Sing Incy Wincy Spider using your hands.

  • Spread shaving cream on a table and use your finger to make a spider web pattern. Or use a sand tray.

  • Go outside with someone and look for spider webs. Remember not to touch.

Too easy?

  • Use more sticks to create a more complex web.

  • Use different coloured wool to create a 'patterned' spider web.

  • Make a spider to place on your web.

Wombat wobble

Learning goal: Children perform movement patterns.

Watch this video and do the actions.

Soundplay Australia (24 January 2020) 'Wombat Wobble - Children's Song' [video], YouTube, accessed 14 September 2021.

Too hard?

  • Use you hands only to do actions.

  • Move around as you listen to the song.

Too easy?

Create movements for these animals:

  • do the dolphin

  • do the kitty cat

  • do the flying fox

  • do the lizard.

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.

Sandcastle

Learning goal: Children describe what they can see.

  1. Have you ever made a sandcastle?

  2. Look carefully at this photo of a sandcastle.

  3. Talk to someone about what you can see:

  • What shapes can you see?

  • Where can you see curving lines?

  • Where can you see straight lines?

  • Which part of the castle do you like best?

  • Did you notice anything else about the castle?

  • What's a question would you like to ask the person who made this castle?

  1. Draw or make your own castle. You might choose to make your castle out of playdough, blocks, lego, duplo or craft materials.

Too hard?

  • Use playdough or kinetic sand on a small tray.

Too easy?

  • Make a plan for your castle with a list of items needed and a drawing.

  • Make some puppets for your castle. Think about who would live in the castle and what they would do.

  • Make a story up.

Tell a story

Learning goal: Children use their imagination and creativity to tell a story.

  1. Get your favourite soft toy.

  2. Set him or her up in four different places or scenes, for example, going for a walk outside or playing with blocks.

  3. Ask someone to help you take a photo of your toy in each place or scene.

  4. Looking at each of the photos, tell a story about your toy. For example, 'One day Teddy got up and ate her breakfast. Then she decided to go for a play outside.' etc.

  5. If you have a printer, print the photos. Cut them out and glue them down to make a small booklet. Ask someone to write down the words of your story.

Too hard?

  • Ask someone to tell you a story about teddy bears.

  • Set up a teddy bears picnic.

Too easy?

  • Try the same activity with other toys.

  • Tell a story about a family adventure.

Extra learning activities

  • Practice counting and learn about two dimensional shapes.

  • Open numberblocks here or view the document below.

Numberblocks-how-to-count.docx

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