Monday
To complete today's activities, you will need:
something to draw on
something to draw with
flour, salt, cream of tartar, oil, food colouring
a mixing bowl and spoon
measuring cup
tablespoon
small cushion or rice pack
a board game such as snakes and ladders or dominoes
Overview of today's activities:
Activity 1: What are you good at? (15 minutes)
Activity 2: Playdough (30 minutes)
Activity 3: Balance (10 minutes)
Break
Activity 4: Shared story (15 minutes)
Activity 5: Board game (30 minutes)
Please note, these times are an approximation only.
What are you good at?
Learning goal: Children celebrate their own efforts and achievements.
Everyone has strengths. Your strengths are the things you are good at.
These children are good at climbing.
Image owned by the NSW Department of Education under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth)​
Image owned by the NSW Department of Education under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth)​
What are you good at? How did you become good at this?
Spend time doing something you are good at.
Too hard?
Often the things we are good at are the things we enjoy. What do you like doing?
Show someone one thing you are good at.
Too easy?
What is each person in your family is good at?
What do you want to be good at and how can you become better at it?
Playdough
Learning goal: Children use numeracy skills to successfully follow a recipe.
Ask someone in your family to help you follow this non-cook recipe to make playdough.
Ingredients:
2 cups plain flour
4 tablespoons cream of tartar
1 cup salt
2 cups very hot water
2 tablespoons cooking oil
food colouring.
What to do:
1. Place the flour, cream of tartar and salt in a large bowl.
2. Carefully add the hot water and oil to the mixture.
3. Stir the mixture together to form a dough.
4. Take the dough out of the bowl and knead it.
5. Add more flour if the dough is too moist or more water if the dough is too dry.
6. Add a few drops of food colouring.
7. Play with your playdough!
Balance
Learning goal: Children develop the stability skill of balance.
Listen to this song and follow the instructions to warm up your body.
Practice balancing:
Balance on one foot. Hold still while you count to five.
Now try on the other foot. How long could you balance for?
Walk along something with your arms stretched out wide, perhaps stepping stones, a log, long rope or even a line on the ground.
Stretch up on your toes, then down again. Sit down and then stand up.
Balance a small cushion or rice pack on your head, without touching it.
Put your favourite music on and walk around with the cushion or rice pack balanced on your head.
Active Children Doing Balancing Exercises by Yan Krukov, pexels.com
Black son walking on log near father by Anete Lusina, pexels.com
Too hard?
To help you balance, put one hand on a wall or piece of furniture.
Practice lifting one heel up and then the other with your toes staying on the ground.
Balance an object on your hand or foot, you can do this while sitting down.
Too easy?
Copy the poses in this Balance/Stretch Cool Down video, holding each as the timer counts down.
Play 'Simon Says' with a family member and practice tricky balances.
Parents let us know how the activity went
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 - My spaghetti ABC
Learning goal: Children begin to recognise letters.
Have you ever eaten spaghetti?
Listen to this story about spaghetti.
Penguin Books Australia (17 February 2021), 'My spaghetti ABC by Deborah Niland' [video], YouTube, accessed 13 September 2021.
In the story there was an alphabet made of spaghetti. Join in singing one of these alphabet songs:
Choose the first song if you want to sing a slow song.
Choose the second song if you want to sing a faster song.
Super simple songs - Kids songs (13 May 2017) 'The alphabet song' [video], YouTube, accessed 13 September 2021.
Super simple songs - Kids songs (19 January 2018) 'The alphabet is so much fun' [video], YouTube, accessed 13 September 2021.
Too hard?
Clap your hands to the song and listen.
Stamp your feet to the song and listen.
Practice saying the names of the letters in your name.
Too easy?
Listen to the story again. Which rhyming words did you hear?
Ask someone to write some letters for you to copy. Write, paint or make them out of playdough.
Board game
Learning goal: Children play cooperatively, demonstrating skills of self-regulation.
Ask someone in your family to play a board game with you e.g. snakes and ladders or dominoes.
Make sure you follow the game rules and wait patiently for your turn to have a go.
"Snakes and Ladders" by jacqui.brown33 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
"Blue Dominos" by FestivitiesMN is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Too hard?
Try an easier game such as bingo or memory.
Too easy?
Make you own game of snakes and ladders.
Play a harder game, for example, checkers or Go fish!