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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:
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
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?
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?
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
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:
1. Lay the sticks across one another.
3. Going round and round, weave your string or wool around each stick.
2. Tie the sticks together in the middle and wind the wool around a few times.
4. When you are finished, cut the string and tie a knot.
Too hard?
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?
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
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?
Too hard?
Use you hands only to do actions.
Move around as you listen to the song.
Too easy?
Too easy?
Create movements for these animals:
do the dolphin
do the kitty cat
do the flying fox
do the lizard.
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
Sandcastle
Sandcastle
Learning goal: Children describe what they can see.
Have you ever made a sandcastle?
Look carefully at this photo of a sandcastle.
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?
Draw or make your own castle. You might choose to make your castle out of playdough, blocks, lego, duplo or craft materials.
Too hard?
Too hard?
Use playdough or kinetic sand on a small tray.
Too easy?
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
Tell a story
Learning goal: Children use their imagination and creativity to tell a story.
Get your favourite soft toy.
Set him or her up in four different places or scenes, for example, going for a walk outside or playing with blocks.
Ask someone to help you take a photo of your toy in each place or scene.
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.
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?
Too hard?
Ask someone to tell you a story about teddy bears.
Set up a teddy bears picnic.
Too easy?
Too easy?
Try the same activity with other toys.
Tell a story about a family adventure.
Extra learning activities
Extra learning activities
Practice counting and learn about two dimensional shapes.
Open numberblocks here or view the document below.
Child voice
Child voice
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